· Private foundation
Lamarche Creek 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 $10k10 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION UMD SALES CENTER | $25,000 |
| BEST CHRISTMAS EVER | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| MESABI RANGE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| FOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CLOQUET COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ESKO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE | $1,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $1,000 |
| FAMILY PATHWAYS | $500 |
| PBS CH8 DULUTH-SUPERIOR ED TV | $250 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION | $250 |
| CARLTON CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $143k · revenue +137%
- MRMESABI RANGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +3%
- FDFOND DU LAC TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +33%
Funded once
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.
Provide financial support to promote the educational, cultural, scientific, and charitable activities of lake superior college duluth, mn.
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.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
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…
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
Advancing tribal colleges through collaboration and shared goals. ndtcs leverages the higher education experience by sharing ideas and broadening networks and alliances, toward improving students' outcomes.
Improve the quality of land surveyors throughout education by providing scholarships to those attending land surveying courses
The minnesota private college fund serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.
The minneapolis community & technical college foundation helps solve issues of affordability and access to higher education through funds and provides part or all of the funding to the college to develop technical college foundation…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mesabi Range Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MESABI RANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC ↗
- Who funds ESKO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds Family Pathways ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds CARLTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lamarche Creek 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.