· Public charity
Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc
Trellis (the Organization) assists individuals to age successfully and develops the capacity of communities to care for an aging population.
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–50k5 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+8 grants · $10.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Open Arms of Minnesota | $2,876,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & SERVICES | $2,626,004 |
| METRO MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,004,169 |
| SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY | $918,816 |
| Volunteers of AmericaMN | $519,509 |
| SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES | $464,268 |
| HELP AT YOUR DOOR | $305,783 |
| EASTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC | $265,433 |
| FAMILY MEANS | $248,575 |
| DARTS | $237,401 |
| KOREAN SERVICE CENTER | $170,175 |
| MID MN LEGAL AID | $169,073 |
| Touchstone Mental Health Services | $168,012 |
| SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SVCS | $166,596 |
| LAO ADVANCEMENT ORG OF AMERICA | $162,570 |
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, $34.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k 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
- PHPRESBYTERIAN HOMES AND SERVICES7× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +47%
- OAOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA4× · 2021–2024 · $11M · revenue +41% · 30% of their budget
- MMMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $10M · revenue +161% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- PHPresbyterian Home & Servicesone grant, 2023 · $2.5M
- LOLand of the Dancing Sky AAAone grant, 2017 · $55k
- GMGREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +103%
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 Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.
Walker Adult Day Services supports healthy aging with a focus on boosting overall wellness. Offering a range of helpful services all in one place, the program makes it easy for people facing isolation from physical or emotional challenges…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Trade association whose mission is to empower members to excellence through advocacy, education, expertise, resources and support.
Trellis (the Organization) assists individuals to age successfully and develops the capacity of communities to care for an aging population.
To provide high quality care for children and seniors while promoting respect and understanding through intentional intergenerational interaction.
Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
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…
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
Minnesota community care's mission is strengthening the well-being of our community through health care for all.
Leadingage minnesota is driven to transform and enhance the experience of aging. we build member capacity by providing business intelligence tools, advocacy, education and networking; lead transformation and innovation of care delivery;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Minnesota Area Agency On Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wholistic Health U. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. 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 13% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 93 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 PRESBYTERIAN HOMES AND SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HELP AT YOUR DOOR ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Korean Service Center ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds LAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DARTS ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
- Who funds LYNGBLOMSTEN CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANOKA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK ↗
- Who funds SEWA-AIFW ↗
- Who funds LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CAPI USA ↗
- Who funds BHUTANESE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA-BCOM- ↗
- Who funds Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Minneapolis American Indian Center ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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 · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Stevens Square Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Minneapolis Foundation · Medica Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Allina Health System · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Hunger Solutions 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 Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc 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.