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Philotimo 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $470k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMON HOPE | $140,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE | $140,000 |
| URBAN REFUGE CHURCH | $70,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $60,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $60,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $40,000 |
| ANSELM HOUSE | $35,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE | $29,000 |
| INNOVATION FOR POVERTY ACTION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES | $20,000 |
| IAFR INT ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES | $15,775 |
| TRAINING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL | $14,000 |
| SOURCE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE | $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 (FY17–25, $580k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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
- HIHARVESTING IN SPANISH5× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +19%
- ECEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS4× · 2019–2023 · $230k · revenue +48%
- IFINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +49%
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +98%- ECEVERGREEN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $70k
- EAEVIDENCE ACTIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +64%
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.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Global minnesotas mission is to advance international understanding and engagement. we are committed to serving minnesota from a foundation built on the values of respect, collaboration, nonpartisanship, global competency, inclusion and…
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Mn350 unites minnesotans with the global movement to end the pollution damaging our climate, speed the transition to clean energy, and create a just and healthy future for all.
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…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…
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.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Harlem Children's Zone Inc. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 39 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 NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
- Who funds HARVESTING IN SPANISH ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Anselm House ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds Agamim Classical Academy ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds Training Leaders International ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA OFF ROAD CYCLISTS-MORC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CARE OF CREATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ARRIVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Coalition to Stop Gun Violence ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Graco Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Marbrook Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Philotimo 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.
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