· Private foundation
Minerd Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $278k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $1,000,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| ROBERT F KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS | $250,000 |
| BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG PREVENTION | $250,000 |
| BRIDGE TRUST USA | $133,000 |
| PARS THEOLOGICAL CENTRE | $75,000 |
| THE AMANDA FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| HOLT INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $25,000 |
| THRU THE BIBLE | $25,000 |
| CLARIS HEALTH | $10,000 |
| THE HUDSON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Minerd Foundation Inc’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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k 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
- URUNION RESCUE MISSION5× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +125%
- RFROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS6× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +33%
- SJSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +100%
Funded once
- TMTHE MILKEN INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $2.2M · revenue +23%
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS FIRSTone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -47%
- CHCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +64%
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.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Non-profit research institute to advance a systems (or holistic and cross-disciplinary) approach to science; personalized medicine; global health & environmental sustainability; science education; & the pioneering & invention of biological…
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. 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 33 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) — 5% 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.
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 47 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 UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds GOOD PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TRUST-USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds CLARIS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE AMANDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FCANCER ↗
- Who funds THE ORPHAN DISEASE PATHWAY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Thru The Bible Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENE SPOTLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUDSON SCHOOL ↗
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: California Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Minerd Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.
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