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Ocora Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RESCUE NETWORK INC | $100,000 |
| THE BITTY KITTY BRIGADE | $80,000 |
| WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MN | $80,000 |
| THIS OLD HORSE | $50,000 |
| MY VERY OWN BED | $17,500 |
| CORNER OF KINDNESS | $12,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- ITINNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue +4%
- RNRESCUE NETWORK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $370k · revenue +440%
- BKBITTY KITTY BRIGADE3× · 2023–2025 · $202k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +12%
- FOFRIENDS OF ROSEVILLE HARRIET ALEXANDER NATURE CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TRTHE RAPTOR CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
We save the lives of companion animals in need -- including those who are homeless abandoned neglected or at risk. Through compassion kindness and care we help them heal and thrive ultimately becoming cherished family members in loving…
Ruff start rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of animals in need. we improve animal welfare in communities through adoption, education, and providing resources for people and pets.
Established in 2005, La Crescent Animal Rescue (LAR) is an all-volunteer, non-profit 501(c) 3 organization dedicated to the protection and welfare of animals in La Crescent, Minnesota. Our rescue shelter depends solely on the support and…
Pet haven rescues and re-homes cats and dogs, spays and neuters to reduce over population, promotes companion animal welfare, and advocates on behalf of companion animals.
We believe in the human-animal bond and exist to support the animals and people of central minnesota by practicing and promoting quality animal care, offering compassionate customer service, and providing humane education.
Friends of animal adoptions, inc. (the organization), is a minnesota non- profit organization whose mission is to prevent cruelty to animals; provide shelter, emergency and other medical care; and to find good adoptive homes for cats,…
Operation of an animal shelter for unwanted and abandoned animals, community education to encourage humane treatment and responsible ownership.
Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…
Provide wellness and spay/neuter services at reduced cost for people in need.
To offer financial assistance to individuals to aid them in spaying/neuter companion animals and to decrease the number of animals euthanized at local pounds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Red Lake Rosie's Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Simpson Housing Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESCUE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BITTY KITTY BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds My Very Own Bed ↗
- Who funds CORNER OF KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THIS OLD HORSE INC ↗
- Who funds COCO'S HEART DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds RED LAKE ROSIE'S RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · 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 Ocora 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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