· Private foundation
Ordean Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k11 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $526k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $998k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAMIANO CENTER | $145,000 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $125,000 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN | $100,000 |
| CHUM | $97,000 |
| MENTOR NORTH | $90,000 |
| LIFE HOUSE INC | $75,000 |
| VALLEY YOUTH CENTER | $60,000 |
| DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC | $55,000 |
| FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER | $50,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHLAND | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES FOOD BANK | $45,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION | $40,000 |
| SOAR CAREER SOLUTIONS | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 18 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- DODAMIANO OF DULUTH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $655k · revenue +163%
- LSLAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $625k · revenue +30%
- MNMENTOR NORTH5× · 2020–2024 · $511k · revenue +61% · 38% of their budget
Funded once
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE DAFone grant, 2020 · $100k
- LSLAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue +60%
- FWFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue 0%
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.
Promote health through skiing
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To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
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MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.
Preventing domestic violence and sexual abuse in communities of color throughout minnesota and the nation. by providing culturally-specific resources to women and girls of african descent, we hope to change the cycle of gender-based abuse…
Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.
To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Roof Community Housing and the most unlike its peers is Just Kids Dental 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 40 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 100 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 DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MENTOR NORTH ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Family Freedom Center ↗
- Who funds BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH ↗
- Who funds SOAR CAREER SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH ↗
- Who funds DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds DULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER BOWL IMPROVEMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds DULUTH LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ECOLIBRIUM3 ↗
- Who funds PROGRAM FOR AID TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds HEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY ↗
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: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Minnesota Power Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Mardag Foundation · Pachel Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Medica Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 Ordean 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.