· Public charity
Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc
MNRAAA helps older adults thrive in Southwest MN by enabling older adults to maintain the lifestyle of their choice.
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.
The 26 grants below total $4,927,360 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,506,856 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $579,496 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $347k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | $2,515,408 |
| Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc | $658,660 |
| Essential Senior Services LLC | $201,878 |
| Southern MN Regional Legal Services Inc | $181,203 |
| VINE Faith in Action | $113,666 |
| United Community Action Partnership | $109,402 |
| VINE Faith in Action | $105,973 |
| Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc | $93,816 |
| Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | $92,378 |
| Waseca Area Caregiver Services | $89,698 |
| Central Community Transit | $88,540 |
| Waseca Area Caregiver Services | $81,926 |
| VINE Faith in Action | $64,832 |
| ACE of Southwest Minnesota | $63,481 |
| Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | $56,641 |
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, $21.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +78%
- PFPrairie Five Community Action Council Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +53%
- SMSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $809k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- CCCentral Community Transitone grant, 2019 · $94k
- ESECUMEN SBC INCone grant, 2019 · $42k
- BMBrent Moseng Construction LLCone grant, 2020 · $27k
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 provide quality, life enhancing housing with services and activities for seniors of northwest minnesota
To provide nursing care and related services to the aged and handicapped in winona, mn and the surrounding area.
Serving others together in faith, community and life.
Cedar crest is a life plan retirement community serving adults 55 years of age or older. its mission is to offer residents a faith-based culture that embraces a distinct wellness lifestyle, compassionate supportive living and excellent…
Walker Adult Day Services promotes healthy aging with the focus to improve and enhance overall wellness. Through a system of supportive services in one location the program conveniently assists people experiencing isolation due to physical…
Our mission is empowering people as they age.
The mission of midland area agency on aging is to provide caring and quality services to older adults and their families that enable independent living with dignity in their homes and communities.
Enhancing the quality of life through integrated healthcare.
Provide long-term nursing care for the aging and faith-based services to enrich the lives of older adults.
A community of services, grounded in faith, providing person centered care that encourages all people to reach their highest potential.
Pine haven community provides a continuum of care through the belief that every person is unique.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethesda and the most unlike its peers is Madison Art Gallery. 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 30 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% 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 9% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Prairie Five Community Action Council Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS - FAITH IN ACTION IN FARIBAULT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds A C E OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WASECA AREA CAREGIVER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAITH IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds VINE FAITH IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVERS RESPONSE EFFORT & SERVIC ↗
- Who funds GRANITE FALLS LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MADISON ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND CENTERS ↗
- Who funds RENVILLE HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BROOKSIDE SENIOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds BIG STONE AREA MEMORY LOSS CONNECTION ↗
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: Southwest Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc · Medica Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Minnesota River 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.
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