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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.

$228k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.4MHealth$276kEducation$142kArts & Culture$59kAnimals$56kHousing & Shelter$2k
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BELWIN$55,000
MINNESOTA LAND TRUST$30,000
PEOPLE INCORPORATED$25,000
ISLAND CONSERVATION$25,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$17,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY$10,000
MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIORNMENTAL ADCOCACY$10,000
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE$10,000
ZAMORANO$10,000
Individual grant recipient$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BELWIN: $55k → 6%THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $17k → 14%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $25k → 13%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $50k → 17%BELWIN: $15k → 6%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $25k → 13%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $50k → 17%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $25k → 13%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $50k → 17%MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $20k → 11%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $25k → 13%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $50k → 17%MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $20k → 11%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $25k → 13%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $38k → 17%LAND TRUST ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $20k → 11%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $25k → 13%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $30k → 17%LAND TRUST ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $20k → 11%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $25k → 13%LAND TRUST ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%AUDUBON MINNESOTA: $15k → 6%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $55k → 14%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $25k → 13%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $30k → 17%LAND TRUST ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%AUDUBON MINNESOTA: $15k → 6%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $55k → 14%LAND TRUST ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%AUDUBON MINNESOTA: $15k → 6%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $55k → 14%LAND TRUST ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $55k → 14%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $55k → 14%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $30k → 14%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $30k → 14%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $30k → 14%PEOPLE INCORPORATED: $30k → 14%PEOPLE INCORPORATED: $30k → 14%PEOPLE INCORPORATED: $30k → 14%PEOPLE INCORPORATED: $30k → 14%PEOPLE INCORPORATED: $25k → 14%PEOPLE INCORPORATED: $25k → 14%PEOPLE INCORPORATED: $25k → 14%PEOPLE INCORPORATED: $25k → 14%MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIORNMENTAL ADCOCACY: $25k → 14%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Open Door Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 51%.

Open Door Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$1.9M · 35 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
3

Total granted

$1.9M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+21%

Still filing today

77%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • ML
    MINNESOTA LAND TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +403%
  • PI
    PEOPLE INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +36%
  • IC
    ISLAND CONSERVATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • CT
    CONSERVATION TRUST OF PUERTO RICO
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • HL
    HILL LAKES AND PRESS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • TT
    Ten Thousand Things Theater
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +21%
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
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
2
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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3
Minnesota Environmental Partnership

The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.

Environment
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
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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6
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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7
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
8
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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9
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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10
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
11
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation

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…

Environment
12
The Montana Land Reliance

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Land Trust; 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.
05the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
27/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $297,500 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $220,000 · OtherPEOPLE INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient: $107,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBELWIN CONSERVANCY: $95,000 · OtherBELWIN CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient: $48,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+10 more: $111,000 · Other+10 moreMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $365,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LAND TRUSTISLAND CONSERVATION: $200,000 · EnvironmentISLAND CONSERVATIONLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $160,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INCMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: $76,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACYCONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $30,000 · Environment+5 more: $27,500 · EnvironmentMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $90,000 · EducationCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $3,000 · EducationMinnPost: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,600 · Arts & CultureHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $9,000 · Arts & CultureHENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $3,200 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Bird Conservancy: $20,000 · AnimalsTHE TRUMPETER SWAN SOCIETY: $8,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER: $8,000 · AnimalsPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $20,000 · HealthAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$879,500Environment$858,500Education$118,000Arts & Culture$53,800Animals$36,000Health$20,000Youth Development$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $365,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $220,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION: $200,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $160,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBELWIN CONSERVANCY: $95,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: $76,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinnPost: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUMPETER SWAN SOCIETY: $8,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGuild: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $3,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTen Thousand Things Theater: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 American Bird Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds MinnPost ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Pohlad Family Foundat…Xcel Energy FoundationThe K FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…David Winton Bell Fou…Smikis FoundationMinnesota Community F…Nicholson Family Foun…Longview Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN29.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Open Door Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Open Door Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Open Door Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Open Door Foundation 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 40 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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