· Private foundation
Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY INC | $350 |
| MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH | $200 |
| HOPE FOR THE DAY | $200 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA | $100 |
| MUSLIM SOCIETY OF OWATONNA | $100 |
| EMPLIFY HEALTH HOSPICE | $75 |
| EAGLES CANCER TELETHON | $50 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MINNESOTA | $50 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $50 |
| HUNGRY FOR MUSIC | $50 |
| SPERO ACADEMY | $50 |
| CAMP OMEGA | $50 |
| LITTLE THEATRE OF OWATONNA | $50 |
| BBBS OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA | $50 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50 |
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 (FY21–24, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- WEWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS4× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +32%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +91%
- CPCOMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY3× · 2023–2025 · $900 · revenue +56%
Funded once
- I7ISD 761 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue -21%- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INCone grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue +13%
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The american society for nutrition, inc. (asn) was established to advance health around the world through evidence based nutrition. this is accomplished through innovative programs and services designed to advance knowledge, create and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beds for Kids. 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 36 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) — 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 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.
35 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. 35 of the 59 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 WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STEELE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RACHELS LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE DAY ↗
- Who funds BEDS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds HUNGRY FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds YEMEN AID INC ↗
- Who funds SPERO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Michael and Nancy Keller Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.