· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PANCAN | $1,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,500 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $1,500 |
| ANNANDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| EXCELSIOR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| GUTHRIE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| ICA FOOD SHELF | $1,000 |
| GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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