· Private foundation
Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Venn Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $121k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k32 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNANDALE ARTS & TEXTILE CENTER | $76,095 |
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| PLEASANT LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $2,550 |
| ANNANDALE FOOD SHELF | $2,500 |
| ANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST | $1,500 |
| ANNANDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| PANCAN | $1,500 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $1,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,500 |
| ICA FOOD SHELF | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| EXCELSIOR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| GUTHRIE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AAANNANDALE ART AND TEXTILE CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $188k · revenue +70% · 28% of their budget
- AFANNANDALE FOOD SHELF3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +50%
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +298%
Funded once
- BBBELGRADE BROOTEN ELROSA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $550k
- FMFountains Methodist Churchone grant, 2022 · $2k
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIAone grant, 2022 · $540 · revenue -34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Engaging the community to end hunger
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Our mission is empowering people as they age.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans and the most unlike its peers is Hamilton Habitat Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VENN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANNANDALE ART AND TEXTILE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANNANDALE FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEARNS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON HABITAT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds VerdeCares Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Achon Uganda Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Morgan Family Foundation · Central Minnesota Arts Board · Initiative Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.