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Nolan Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $250k+1 grant · $958k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundat | $958,000 |
| Minneapolis Jewish Federation | $15,000 |
| Crested Butte Development Team | $5,000 |
| Angels of McGregor | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +23% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 100% 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
- MHMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $4.0M · revenue +23%
- PCPACER CENTER INC4× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue -25%
- CBCRESTED BUTTE DEVELOPMENT TEAM3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- TITEMPLE ISREALone grant, 2019 · $50k
- TITEMPLE ISRAEL TRUST FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +449%
- MHMINNESOTA HILLELone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -26%
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 inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.
The purpose of the society is to promote the vitality and continuity of jewish culture in the upper midwest through preservation, interpretation and education.
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Hillel, the jewish student center at the university of wisconsin-madison, serves over 5,000 jewish students and faculty. hillel provides a home and support to various independent student organizations. every expression of jewish life is…
The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is Angels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE ISRAEL TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRESTED BUTTE DEVELOPMENT TEAM ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Angels ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
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 · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Nolan 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.
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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