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Mortenson Company Foundation
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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k23 grants · $450k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC | $50,000 |
| RAINIER SCHOLARS | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER INC | $30,000 |
| SAN CARLOS APACHE TRIBE OF THE SAN CARLOS RESERVAT | $25,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES | $25,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA | $25,000 |
| OPERATION FRESH START INC | $25,000 |
| THE WORKS | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES | $25,000 |
| BANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER INC | $20,000 |
| CONSTRUCTING HOPE PRE- APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| 4 13 STRONG INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 15 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $345k 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
Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +156%- CHCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +2%
- TWTHE WORKS2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- FHFroedtert Hospital Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +43%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +16%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -15%
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 be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
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…
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 association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…
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…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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 27 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) — 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.
34 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. 34 of the 42 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 REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORKS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EDGEHILL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES ↗
- Who funds Oregon Tradeswomen Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds 413 STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WANTON INJUSTICE LEGAL DETAIL ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK 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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · 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 Mortenson Company 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.
- Oregon Tradeswomen Inc — 46% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — 2% 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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