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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.

$511k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$699kHealth$310kPhilanthropy$101kArts & Culture$67kHuman Services$61kEmployment$34kEnvironment$34kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $350k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $1k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $500 → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MA
CT
RI
CA
MD
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 38 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
13

Total granted

$1.3M
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-12%

Still filing today

82%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AH
    ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM
    3× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +28%
  • GM
    GREAT MN SCHOOLS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +39%
  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AN
    ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
  • LS
    Lake Street Council
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -85%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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4
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

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.

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5
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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6
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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7
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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8
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
9
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

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…

Community Improvement
10
Minnesota Private College Fund

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.

Education
11
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
12
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Twin Cities United Way; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY: $301,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $49,000 · OtherCOMPASSION & CHOICESWOMENVENTURE: $15,000 · Other+21 more: $84,700 · Other+21 moreTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $201,395 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $100,000 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLSCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $55,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $20,200 · Education+5 more: $23,500 · Education+5 moreALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $255,000 · HealthALLINA HEALTH SYSTEMWashburn Center for Children: $22,500 · HealthWashburn Center for Chil…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $17,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNE…+1 more: $2,500 · HealthGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $78,000 · PhilanthropyMICROGRANTS: $8,500 · PhilanthropyNORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyWomen's Foundation of Minnesota: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $12,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $11,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $10,700 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · Arts & CultureMILKWEED EDITIONS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART CENTER: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTwin Cities Rise: $34,000 · EmploymentMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentLAKE EFFECT CONSERVANCY: $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE WEEKAPAUG FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATION: $1,000 · Environment
Other$449,700Education$400,095Health$297,000Philanthropy$100,500Arts & Culture$63,200Employment$34,000Environment$23,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $255,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $201,395 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $78,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $34,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $20,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENVENTURE: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $10,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMICROGRANTS: $8,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBolder Options: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMILKWEED EDITIONS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLake Street Council: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Minnesota: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE EFFECT CONSERVANCY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Constellation Fund: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WEEKAPAUG FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds MILKWEED EDITIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
  • Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mortenson Family Foun…Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustJulie & Doug Baker Jr…Longview FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…The McKnight Foundati…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Xcel Energy FoundationSmikis Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN29.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oak Grove Foundation Ma funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oak Grove Foundation Ma. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Oak Grove Foundation Ma?

Find your warmest path to Oak Grove Foundation Ma through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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