How much did MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Animals$38MHuman Services$38MEducation$28MHealth$24MArts & Culture$21MPhilanthropy$19MFood & Nutrition$16MYouth Development$11MCrime & Legal$11MOther$112M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

lcdmageescrfmodern slaverylcd'stampa baydignitas

2019

buttenfpfiber artsftdfairviewnfp'smove self-sufficiency

2020

cmarotary youthferaeconomic financialboy scoutsholinesstidewell

2021

free artscndtrauma-informed artbootsbisexual pansexualpansexual fluidfluid queer

2022

paralyzed veteranspacific northwestvashonwhidbeyestuaryarborveterans disabilities

2023

kitsapgreater miamibiscaynelopezmartial artsmiami'spacific northwest

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 3309 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1403 grants · $9.9M
$10k–50k1586 grants · $33M
$50k–250k296 grants · $27M
$250k+24 grants · $12M

$11,459

Median grant

States reached

$6.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

GREATER MIAMI JEWISH$1,115,104
GIVEMN$903,120
MILLION DOLLAR ROUND TABLE$851,562
ACHIEVE MIAMI INC$841,620
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$803,620
LEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL$707,595
HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE$668,219
GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL$510,245
EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC$508,948
BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC$456,575
FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC$436,873
TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY$417,857
FOOD LIFELINE$407,025
RACING FOR ALS INC$396,452
METRO UNITED WAY INC$369,311

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $15.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$308M · 1897 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

1897 repeat relationships — 1414 still active in FY2024, 483 since wound down; 66 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1897

Total granted

$308M

$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+44%

Still filing today

91%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther

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

MF
MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +2089%
SH
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
6× · 2019–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +102%
HT
HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +79%

Funded once

BG
BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FDN INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +79%
HM
HAMLINE MIDWAY COALITION
one grant, 2020 · $550k · revenue +11%
SS
SISTER SONG INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $463k · revenue +340%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Partners for Affordable Housing

Provides shelter for homeless families & individuals, & helps them to secure long-term housing.

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Marin Humane Society

Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.

Animals

Mental Health Minnesota

Mental Health Minnesota is the voice of lived mental health expenience. We carry that declaration forward as we work to advance mental health and well-being for all, increase access to mental health treatment and services, and provide…

Health

Petconnect Rescue Inc

Petconnect rescue is a foster-based animal welfare organization dedicated to saving at-risk dogs and cats, providing them with high quality care, and adopting them to loving homes. we are committed to ensuring a highly positive rescue…

Animals

Family Pathways

Work alongside people and the community to enhance lives and champion positive social change.

Human Services

Hired

Hired nurtures purpose and advances economic opportunity for all through career services.

Employment

Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

—

Cornerhouse

To partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal

United Way of Ne Minnesota

Invest in nonprofits, programs, collaborations that equip, empower and create opportunities for all to thrive.

—

Advocates for Family Peace

To improve lives by ending domestic violence.

Human Services

African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services

Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crisis Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Pedal Power. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%90/7,087

the rest of the field

11%

206,074/1,812,478

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.

05the grantee network

1841 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

169

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

814

Early backer (in before they grew)

1810/1841

Grantees still filing

1495/1841

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$149,243,161Animals$38,436,976Human Services$38,239,202Education$28,323,824Health$24,281,244Arts & Culture$21,408,079Philanthropy$18,810,603

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.

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.

The K FoundationMO77.8× affinity268 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The K Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Target Foundation · The Kirk Foundation · Peacock Foundation Inc · Mortenson Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main · Hardenbergh Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family

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 organisation MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

16get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WFU SIGMA CHI DERBY DAYS FDN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832345977 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WFU SIGMA CHI DERBY DAYS FDN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mightycause Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mightycause Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines