· Public charity
Medica Foundation
The foundation generally seeks to improve the health of those in need by investing in community-led initiatives that advance health equity.
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 $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $705k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEWINZHA ONDAADIZIIKE WIIGAMING | $200,000 |
| VETERAN RESILIENCE PROJECT INC | $140,000 |
| RECLAIM | $140,000 |
| OPEN PATH RESOURCES | $140,000 |
| ELLISON CENTER | $140,000 |
| RAICES SAGRADAS COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH | $140,000 |
| FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICE INC | $140,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $140,000 |
| CONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE | $140,000 |
| COMMUNITY CONNECT CENTER | $140,000 |
| WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC | $140,000 |
| ANNEX TEEN CLINIC | $100,000 |
| MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| READY SET SMILE PA | $50,000 |
| SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER | $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 (FY17–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
114 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 31 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $565k · revenue +105%
- HHHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +74%
- YYOUTHLINK4× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- HHOUSINGLINKone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -12%
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - MINNESOTAone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -14%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +31%
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.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
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…
Providing direct and indirect services in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilites, and substance use to residents of aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.
Our mission is "Partnering to Create a Healthier Community." NorthPoint seeks to reduce health disparities, improve health outcomes, and enhance the overall quality of life for all residents of North Minneapolis
To improve access to quality health care for all.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Touchstone Mental Health and the most unlike its peers is Just Kids Dental 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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
251 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. 251 of the 270 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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds HealthFinders Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MEWINZHA ONDAADIZIIKE WIIGAMING ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAICES SAGRADAS COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HOUSINGLINK ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RECLAIM ↗
- Who funds ELLISON CENTER ↗
- Who funds BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW ↗
- Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
- Who funds FRASER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC ↗
- Who funds Veteran Resilience Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds OPEN PATH RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc ↗
- Who funds Annex Teen Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CORNERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds CANVAS HEALTH 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: Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mardag Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Allina Health System · Ucare Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Pohlad Family Foundation · Target 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 Medica 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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