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Mayo Clinic Group Return
To inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Mayo Clinic Group Return’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 286 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k66 grants · $482k
- $10k–50k146 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k49 grants · $5.7M
- $250k+32 grants · $1.7B
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $1,628,083,733 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $2,967,624 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $2,176,906 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF MINNESOTA | $1,998,350 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $1,730,069 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $1,604,987 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,242,192 |
| NEXUS FAMILY HEALING | $1,100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | $1,055,486 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $1,048,826 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $946,634 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $853,150 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $805,234 |
| SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE | $781,027 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $656,248 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
387 repeat relationships — 207 still active in FY2024, 180 since wound down; 79 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.5M 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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +21%- ISIM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC5× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +10% · 25% of their budget
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +64%
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM--FRANCISCAN HEALTHCARE INCone grant, 2018 · $48M
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2019 · $34M
- ISINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 535one grant, 2023 · $10M
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is William Beaumont Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation. 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
456 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. 456 of the 666 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEXUS FAMILY HEALING ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds TERASAKI INST FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Mayo Clinic · La Crosse Community Foundation · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Eau Claire Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida Inc · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Lyche Family Foundation 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 Mayo Clinic Group Return 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Agape Community Health Center Inc — 25% of income from government
- Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc — 23% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Adventist Healthcare Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pga Tour Inc — 0% of income from government
- Morton Plant Mease Health Care Inc — 0% of income from government
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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