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Pine Rock Foundation Inc

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.

$5.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$6.8MEducation$4.8MAnimals$1.8MCrime & Legal$958kScience & Tech$905kArts & Culture$789kPublic Safety & Disaster$461kEnvironment$416kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.5M
$30,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$94M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG SKY BRAVERY$3,000,000
FRIENDS OF EDUCATION$350,000
TURNING POINT USA$300,000
UPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER$300,000
ALPHA NEWS$300,000
ALPHA NEWS$250,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$200,000
CHAPEL BY THE SEA$150,000
PROVIDENCE ACADEMY$100,000
MINNESOTA VOTERS ALLIANCE$100,000
CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT$100,000
DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER$100,000
PAGE HIGH SCHOOL PTO$100,000
MEMORIES OF HONOR$100,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOR GOODNESS CAKES: $500 → 14%SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS INC: $5k → 6%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF: $5k → 11%PADRAIG'S PLACE: $250 → 6%FREEDOM CENTER: $10k → 14%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
ND
MN
WI
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 40 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
66

Total granted

$16M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+7%

Still filing today

70%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitAnimalsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BS
    BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +314%
  • PA
    PROVIDENCE ACADEMY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +17%
  • AN
    ALPHA NEWS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +285% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $900k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +37%
  • MM
    MINNESOTA MILITARY AND VETERANS MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -14%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
2
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
3
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
4
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
5
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media

The mission of minnesota public radio is creating the future of public media by amplifying voices to inform, include, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
6
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
7
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc

The foundation for individual rights and expression's (fire's) mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all americans to free speech and free thought-the most essential qualities of liberty.(continued on schedule o)fire…

Civil Rights
8
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Education; the most unlike its peers is Java Forever Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 117 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
39/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALPHA NEWS: $1,245,000 · OtherALPHA NEWSTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,140,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCFRIENDS OF CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT: $900,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EX…Individual grant recipient: $376,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $300,000 · OtherCenter of the American Experiment: $407,500 · OtherCenter of the American Experiment+81 more: $1,577,650 · Other+81 morePROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $2,157,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE ACADEMYFRIENDS OF EDUCATION: $1,200,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF EDUCATIONPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $550,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONPage High School PTO: $500,000 · EducationPage High School PTOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Education+6 more: $257,000 · EducationBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $3,410,000 · Public BenefitBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATI…MINNESOTA VOTERS ALLIANCE: $350,000 · Public BenefitMINNESOTA VOTERS ALLIANC…Memories of Honor Inc: $195,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $21,000 · Public BenefitDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $1,725,000 · AnimalsDING DARLI…+4 more: $33,000 · AnimalsUPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER: $904,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $500 · Crime & LegalCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $408,320 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC: $160,500 · Arts & CultureThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $310,000 · EnvironmentLAKE OWEN ASSOCIATION INC: $102,575 · Environment
Other$5,946,650Education$4,914,000Public Benefit$3,976,000Animals$1,758,000Crime & Legal$905,000Arts & Culture$608,820Environment$412,575

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $3,410,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $2,157,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $1,725,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetALPHA NEWS: $1,245,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetFRIENDS OF EDUCATION: $1,200,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,140,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER: $904,500 over 4y, 28% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $550,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPage High School PTO: $500,000 over 3y, 84% of budgetCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $408,320 over 4y, 36% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $407,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMINNESOTA VOTERS ALLIANCE: $350,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $310,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $300,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMemories of Honor Inc: $195,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetTHE WELL OUTREACH INC: $175,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC: $160,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetARRINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $150,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetLAKE OWEN ASSOCIATION INC: $102,575 over 3y, 17% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY AND VETERANS MUSEUM: $100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCABLE COMMUNITY FARM: $75,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetCONSTITUTING AMERICA INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican College of Pediatricians: $45,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetThe Charlemagne Institute: $37,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHEQUAMEGON AREA MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATI: $30,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC: $28,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinneapolis Parks Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Independent Employees: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN MAJORITY INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEdina Chorale: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetABBEY'S HOPE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCooper Trooper Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budget#WALKAWAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANGIOMA ALLIANCE DBA ALLIANCE TO CURE CAVERNOUS MALFORMATIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNGLE THEATER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJAVA FOREVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE EDINA CRIME PREVENTION FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis Found…Michael J & Karen B F…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mightycause Charitabl…Bradley Impact Fund I…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Mick and Sandy Le…The Mark E and Mary a…Bieber Family Foundat…Robins Kaplan Foundat…The Jamf Nation Globa…Donors Trust Inc
The Minneapolis FoundationMN24.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Michael J & Karen B Frey Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Mick and Sandy Lee Family Foundation · The Mark E and Mary a Davis Foundation · Bieber Family Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Donors Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pine Rock Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pine Rock Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Pine Rock Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Pine Rock Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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