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Osilas Foundation at a glance

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Osilas 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$585k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$6.2MPhilanthropy$1.2MEnvironment$744kEducation$542kFood & Nutrition$135kHuman Services$94kHealth$77kRecreation & Sports$74kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society$585,000
Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation$360,000
Lakeshore Players Theatre$271,000
White Bear Center for the Arts$210,000
Liberty Classical Academy$60,000
Dodge Nature Center and Preschool$25,000
Midwest Ski Otters$25,000
YMCA of the North$25,000
White Bear Area Food Shelf$20,000
Children's Perfoming Arts$20,000
Sarah Lawrence College$15,000
St Catherine University$15,000
White Bear Lake Wooden Boat Show$15,000
Solid Ground$10,000
Park Square Theatre$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%The Counseling Center: $41k → 9%The Counseling Center: $20k → 9%The Counseling Center: $3k → 9%The Counseling Center: $1k → 9%Leonardos Basement: $3k → 11%YMCA of the North: $25k → 11%YMCA of the North: $20k → 11%YMCA of the North: $18k → 11%YMCA of the North: $15k → 11%YMCA of the North: $10k → 11%Think Small: $1k → 14%Think Small: $1k → 14%Solid Ground: $30k → 14%Solid Ground: $10k → 14%Solid Ground: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
RI
CA
CO
VA
DC
FL
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 6% of Osilas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 93%.

Osilas Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.4% 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 46 repeat orgs$313k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
36

Total granted

$7.7M
$297k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • WB
    WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +307% · 58% of their budget
  • WB
    WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +82% · 25% of their budget
  • SC
    ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $143k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • GW
    George Washington's Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
    one grant, 2024 · $78k
  • BC
    BELWIN CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2024 · $51k · revenue 0%
  • WC
    Washington County Historical Societygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +148%
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
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The minneapolis institute of art (mia) enriches the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world's diverse cultures.

Arts & Culture
2
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
3
Minnesota Children's Museum

Minnesota Children's Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. The museum helps to instill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing the real-world skills children…

Arts & Culture
4
Schubert Club the

Schubert club creates inspiring musical experiences that contribute to the cultural vibrancy of the twin cities community through concert presentations, music education and student scholarship programs, and musuem exhibits.

Arts & Culture
5
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
6
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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7
St Olaf College

St. olaf college challenges students to excel in the liberal arts, examine faith and values, and explore meaningful vocation in an inclusive, globally engaged community nourished by lutheran tradition.

Education
8
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
9
Rochester Art Center

Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…

Arts & Culture
10
Lake Country School Montessori Learning Environments

Lake country school is a montessori learning environment that fosters independence, critical thinking, and creativity within each child. we are a community that promotes diversity and inclusion, as well as respect and responsibility to…

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11
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…

—
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota News Media Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rory Belle Foundation. 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

63 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. 63 of the 89 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,471,000 · OtherWHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETYTHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER: $615,250 · OtherTHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTERLakeshore Players Theatre: $553,000 · OtherLakeshore Players Theatre+47 more: $638,365 · Other+47 moreWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,699,500 · Arts & CultureWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTSCHILDREN'S PERFORMING ARTS: $865,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S PERFORMING ARTS+15 more: $183,200 · Arts & Culture+15 moreGREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,190,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WHITE …+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $142,500 · EducationLIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $140,000 · EducationCENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $130,000 · EducationMINNESOTA NEWS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC: $100,600 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $27,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INC: $23,000 · Education+6 more: $37,500 · EducationYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $88,000 · Human ServicesTHE COUNSELING CENTER INC: $64,000 · Human ServicesSolid Ground: $45,000 · Human Services+2 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesWHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF: $132,000 · Food & NutritionCOMO FRIENDS: $50,400 · AnimalsAnimal Humane Society: $4,500 · Animals
Other$4,277,615Arts & Culture$2,747,700Philanthropy$1,200,000Education$600,600Human Services$201,500Food & Nutrition$132,000Animals$54,900

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 budgetWHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,471,000 over 6y, 58% of budgetWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,699,500 over 6y, 25% of budgetGREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,190,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetCHILDREN'S PERFORMING ARTS: $865,000 over 6y, 64% of budgetTHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER: $615,250 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $142,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $140,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF: $132,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetSTAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC: $123,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetMINNESOTA NEWS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC: $100,600 over 3y, 64% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $88,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COUNSELING CENTER INC: $64,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetBELWIN CONSERVANCY: $51,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMO FRIENDS: $50,400 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWashington County Historical Society: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPARK SQUARE THEATRE: $50,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $48,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSolid Ground: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMIDWEST SKI OTTER WATER SKI CLUB: $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $27,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $19,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE: $17,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT PAUL GARDEN CLUB: $12,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetWHITE BEAR LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetFRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGRAYWOLF PRESS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAHTOMEDI AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOAKLAND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLiberty School Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWHITE BEAR SAILING SCHOOL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HISTORY THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR MUSIC BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $3,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE BEAR LAKE AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEONARDO'S BASEMENT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% 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 WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
  • Who funds CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA NEWS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds THE COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BELWIN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds COMO FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds Washington County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds PARK SQUARE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Solid Ground ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST SKI OTTER WATER SKI CLUB ↗
  • Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PAUL GARDEN CLUB ↗
  • Who funds WHITE BEAR LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS ↗
  • Who funds GRAYWOLF PRESS ↗

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…Nicholson Family Foun…Xcel Energy FoundationHardenbergh FoundationHugh J Andersen Found…Fred C and Katherine …The Minneapolis Found…Fr Bigelow FoundationGreater White Bear La…The Hubbard Broadcast…Dellwood Foundation I…William Boss Foundati…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN46.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Dellwood Foundation Inc · William Boss 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 Osilas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Osilas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 89 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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