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Open Door 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 $10k10 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELWIN | $55,000 |
| MINNESOTA LAND TRUST | $30,000 |
| ISLAND CONSERVATION | $25,000 |
| PEOPLE INCORPORATED | $25,000 |
| THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $17,000 |
| ZAMORANO | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIORNMENTAL ADCOCACY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LAND TRUST ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MINNESOTA | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of Open Door Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 51% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- MLMINNESOTA LAND TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +403%
- PIPEOPLE INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +36%
- ICISLAND CONSERVATION8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- CTCONSERVATION TRUST OF PUERTO RICOone grant, 2022 · $5k
- HLHILL LAKES AND PRESS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
- TTTen Thousand Things Theaterone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +21%
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 10% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 40 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 MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ISLAND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BELWIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds MinnPost ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TRUMPETER SWAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Guild ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Ten Thousand Things Theater ↗
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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The K Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · David Winton Bell Foundation · Smikis Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · Longview 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 Open Door 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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