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Pgn 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL SKI PATROL SYSTEM | $17,300 |
| SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| WESTERN BEAR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MONTANA ON A MISSION | $5,000 |
| GRG RANCH HORSE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY | $4,800 |
| CHANGING GAITS INC | $4,300 |
| HOLY CROSS LMNV CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| HEARTS 4 HENRY | $3,100 |
| TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| PIONEER MEDICAL CENTER | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE TWIN CITIES | $2,000 |
| MAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION | $1,600 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH | $1,600 |
| YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH FOUNDATION INC | $1,400 |
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 (FY19–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% 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.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +36%
POMONA COLLEGE4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +125%- CGCHANGING GAITS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- ABAMERICAN BEAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +40%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +90%
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
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.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…
We, advantage health/saint mary's medical group and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.advantage health/saint mary's medical group…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…
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…
The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hearts 4 Henry. 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 36 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 52 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 THE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Montana On A Mission ↗
- Who funds CHANGING GAITS INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds FARMHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS 4 HENRY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds ZooMontana Inc ↗
- Who funds MAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Planned Parenthood ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE CHILD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH RECOVERY & MUSIC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds MONTANA METH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Saint Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction Inc ↗
- Who funds Cana Family Institute ↗
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: Montana Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Pgn 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.
- Americares Foundation 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.
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