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Pierce Family 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 $10k15 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRACARE FOUNDATION | $34,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| PRAIRIE WOODS ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER | $5,500 |
| GOOD NEWS JAIL & PRISON MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HENNEPIN HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COLORADO FRIENDSHIP | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF U W HEALTH | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| MERITER FOUNDATION POINT | $2,500 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD THEATER PROJECT | $2,500 |
| BIKES FOR KIDS (WI) | $1,500 |
| THE LINK FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- CFCOLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC6× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +46%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC4× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +56%
- AFALSO FOR GAY YOUTH INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +215%
Funded once
- FOFriends of UW Hospitals Clinicsone grant, 2018 · $11k
- JDJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundatione grant, 2017 · $10k
- UWU W Suncoast Manatee Officeone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 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 be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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,…
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Big Dreamers United. 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 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 10% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 90 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 CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARRIS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN ↗
- Who funds NOURISH 282 ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE WOODS ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALSO FOR GAY YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG DREAMERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLMAR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds FOND BLANC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE AVENUES ↗
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: Communitygiving · Otto Bremer Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Lawrence H & Elizabeth S Dunlap Foundation c/o Liz Dayton · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Southwest Initiative 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 Pierce Family 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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