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Kopp Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k210 grants · $510k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $744k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE | $250,000 |
| KRISTIN KOPP SMITH DAF | $200,000 |
| LINDSEY & BRIAN LANG DAF | $200,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $200,000 |
| COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES | $150,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS ENLISTED TO ASSIST PEOPLE | $100,000 |
| NC LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC | $100,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $83,000 |
| NORMANDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| CANA FAMILY INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS ENLISTED TO ASSIST PEOPLE | $50,000 |
| ANOKA RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
332 repeat relationships — 174 still active in FY2025, 158 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $477k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND7× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +102%
- SRSisters Rising Worldwide5× · 2021–2025 · $780k · revenue +137%
COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES7× · 2018–2025 · $754k · revenue +174%
Funded once
- AEAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
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…
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
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…
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Northside Boxing Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
123 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. 123 of the 458 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Sisters Rising Worldwide ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Normandale Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTH HENNEPIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds ANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cana Family Institute ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Chesterton Academy of the St Croix Valley ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
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 · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Pentair Foundation
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 Kopp 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.
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