· Private foundation
Ledoux Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEOPLE'S SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES | $10,788 |
| ARMED FORCES SERVICE CENTER | $10,690 |
| VEAP | $5,000 |
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| ALIGHT - HOMES FOR AFGHAN REFUGEES | $2,750 |
| AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES | $2,700 |
| BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM | $2,136 |
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 (FY18–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- AFARMED FORCES SERVICES CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +19%
- AHAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +136%
- OAOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA6× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +203%
Funded once
- CECOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +10%
- CLCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +12%
- MVMy Very Own Bedgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +90%
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…
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
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…
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
Connecting people to affordable rental homes, increasing choice and access for all.
We connect and strengthen farmers, food makers, and communities through good food. the good acre is the largest nonprofit food hub in minnesota. we play a critical role in creating market access for farmers in our region. for 2023, with…
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…
To offer hope as we provide assistance to our neighbors in need. ica serves our neighbors by stopping immediate crises, building stability and promoting long-term wellbeing through food assistance, housing assistance, employment support,…
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
Tc food justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in minneapolis, mn. since march 2016 we have been working with co-ops, grocery stores, and farmers markets to redistribute their unsellable foods to local hunger relief…
The mn veterans pantry is committed to enhancing the lives of minnesota veterans by providing targeted financial support through grants exclusively for grocery and supply items. our current partnership with the minneapolis va medical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cedar Riverside People's Center and the most unlike its peers is Twin Cities Public Television 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 ARMED FORCES SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds JOY COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS OF ISLAM ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY FOOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC ↗
- Who funds My Very Own Bed ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART ↗
- Who funds CATS CRADLE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RIVERSIDE PEOPLE'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENUMBRA THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE STARTS WITH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Target Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Allina Health System · Medica Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota
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 Ledoux 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.