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Oak Grove Foundation Ma
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM | $200,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| GREAT MINNESOTA SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $20,000 |
| COMPASSION & CHOICES | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MINNESOTA | $6,000 |
| BLAKE SCHOOL | $5,200 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $5,000 |
| WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $3,000 |
| GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| WOMEN VENTURE | $3,000 |
| NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB | $2,500 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION | $2,200 |
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 (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
- AHALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM3× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +28%
- GMGREAT MN SCHOOLS4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +39%
- CPCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- ANABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- LSLake Street Councilone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -85%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
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 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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…
The minnesota private college fund serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.
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,…
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 Greater Twin Cities United Way and the most unlike its peers is Northside Boxing Club Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 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.
39 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. 39 of the 53 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 ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds WOMENVENTURE ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds Bolder Options ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILKWEED EDITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAKE EFFECT CONSERVANCY ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation · Longview Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Smikis 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 Oak Grove Foundation Ma 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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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