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Pentair 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 $10k336 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $775k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER PARTNERS | $350,000 |
| DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT | $200,000 |
| SAFE WATER NETWORK | $175,000 |
| AMERICAN FORESTS | $150,000 |
| USA SWIMMING FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| V3 SPORTS INC | $50,000 |
| ISLA URBANA USA INC | $50,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| GREAT RIVER GREENING | $25,000 |
| GREAT RIVER GREENING | $11,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON LEE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| PROJECT SCIENTIST | $2,500 |
| TUBMAN | $2,000 |
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, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +22% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
212 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 118 since wound down; 63 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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $917k 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
- SWSAFE WATER NETWORK5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +117%
- SHSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $725k · revenue +89%
- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL5× · 2020–2024 · $625k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- FIFor Inspiration and Recognition ofone grant, 2020 · $104k
- AAAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue -54%
- TGTotal grants paid in following yearone grant, 2020 · $63k
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Periyar International Usa. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
681 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. 681 of the 697 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SAFE WATER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RIVER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Project Scientist Inc ↗
- Who funds H2O FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds American Forests ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM ↗
- Who funds USA Swimming Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Isla Urbana Inc ↗
- Who funds V3 SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARBASE MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEM FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
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: Pohlad Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The K Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way
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 Pentair 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.
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.