· Private foundation
North Star 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOCA GRANDE DISASTER FUND | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| THE ISLAND SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ENGLEWOOD | $5,000 |
| GICIA | $5,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB | $5,000 |
| LONGVIEW | $500 |
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 (FY17–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
22 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- TMTHE MARSHALL SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +11%
- LHLIFE HOUSE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +42%
- TWTIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +240%
Funded once
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +42%- AAMBERWINGone grant, 2022 · $5k
- EHENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +227%
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.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
Teaming together - residents, families and associates, and our community, working to provide responsible healthcare and services, valuing every individual in the spirit of christian love.
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
Feed those in need, house those experiencing homelessness, and empower individuals to achieve independence.
Pinewood - duluth, inc. is a day support services agency providing pre-vocational and vocational services for persons having intellectual and developmental disabilities who are eighteen (18) years of age and older. persons attending…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…
To love, serve, and support the women, children and families in our community before, during and after pregnancy, reaching the most vulnerable and in need. by providing self-sufficiency training and education to pregnant women and new…
Engaging the community to end hunger
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tiger Woods Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Together for Life Northland. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 39 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 THE MARSHALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Together For Life Northland ↗
- Who funds ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR HIKING TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TINERVIN FAMILY 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: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Pachel Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Northland Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lahti Family Foundation · Wildey Mitchell Family Foundation · James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation · Arsher Charitable Trust
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 North Star 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, a single department, or state — 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.