· Private foundation
Paddock 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $779k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES | $100,000 |
| WITHALL | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MN PHARMACY | $100,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| NORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY | $69,000 |
| MS SOCIETY MINNESOTA | $60,000 |
| MS SOCIETY FLORIDA | $60,000 |
| PLACE FOR HOPE | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| PRISM | $45,000 |
| BENILDE ST MARGARET'S | $25,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| ACES | $15,000 |
| PACER CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $842k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 13 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- WWITHALL6× · 2019–2024 · $460k · revenue +81%
- NMNORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $347k · revenue +94%
- PRPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA COLLEGE OF PHARMACYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- DEDULUTH EAST HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +70% · 32% of their budget
- JJJACK JABLONSKI BELIEVE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -48%
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The blake school provides students with an excellent education in a diverse and supportive community. students participate in academic, artistic and athletic activities in preparation for college, life-long learning, community services and…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
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…
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jack Jablonski Believe in Miracles Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 47 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds WITHALL ↗
- Who funds NORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Breck School ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LEONARDO'S BASEMENT ↗
- Who funds SCHUBERT CLUB THE ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DULUTH EAST HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACK JABLONSKI BELIEVE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Graco Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Kopp Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Paddock 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
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.