· Private foundation
McMinn Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k9 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $454k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| V FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY VINE TRAIL COALITION | $100,000 |
| ST HELENA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST HELENA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY VINE TRAIL COALITION | $54,275 |
| OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST HELENA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ST HELENA & CALISTOGA | $20,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY VINE TRAIL COALITION | $5,000 |
| THE URBAN MINISTRY CENTER | $4,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY VINE TRAIL COALITION | $3,700 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE | $3,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY VINE TRAIL COALITION | $2,500 |
| ST NEKTARIOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $1,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY IRON DUKES | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +43% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 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
- NVNapa Valley Vine Trail Coalition2× · 2017–2018 · $178k · revenue +53%
- DEDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC2× · 2017–2018 · $156k · revenue +145%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- N(NAPALEARNS (THE NAPA VALLEY PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION)one grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue -64%
- ANAuction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valleyone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -65%
- CCCOLLABRIA CAREgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +40%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley and the most unlike its peers is National Council of Negro Women 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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 St Helena Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition ↗
- Who funds DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC ↗
- Who funds NAPALEARNS (THE NAPA VALLEY PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION) ↗
- Who funds Auction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley ↗
- Who funds OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLABRIA CARE ↗
- Who funds UPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WEST PARK FAMILY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds U S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spirit of America Worldwide ↗
- Who funds THE CLARION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Coalition to Stop Gun Violence ↗
- Who funds VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST HELENA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds National Council of Negro Women Inc ↗
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: Phelps Foundation · E Richard Jones Family Foundation Mr E Richard Jones · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Npt Charitable Asset Trust · Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · St Helena Hospital · Richard Frank Foundation · Rudd Foundation · Robert Lee Hudson Foundation · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund · The Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey 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 McMinn 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.