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Poepl Family Foundation at a glance

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Poepl Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$719k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.1MInternational$953kEducation$432kReligion$332kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$10kAnimals$8kYouth Development$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$820k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST DAMIEN PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL FUND$500,000
MAYO CLINIC$150,000
RISE UP RECOVERY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC SCHOOL$15,000
VINCENTIAN HOUSE$5,000
ANGEL FOUNDATION$4,000
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ALL IN MINISTRIES: $3k → 6%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.
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 14 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
20

Total granted

$2.1M
$510k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+56%

Still filing today

14%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthReligionOther
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

  • SD
    ST DAMIEN PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $860k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA
    2× · 2018–2019 · $567k · revenue +10%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S PREP
    3× · 2017–2019 · $255k

Funded once

  • OW
    ONE WORLD SURGERYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $386k · revenue +69%
  • SE
    ST ELIZABETH ANN SETON CATHOLIC CHU
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • HP
    HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -57%
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
Mayo Clinic Group Return

To inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.

Health
2
Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital

We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…

Health
3
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

—
4
Mendota Community Hospital

In the spirit of christ and the example of francis of assisi, the mission of osf healthcare is to serve persons with the greatest care and love in a community that celebrates the gift of life.

Health
5
The Methodist Hospital Foundation

Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…

Health
6
Advantage Healthsaint Mary's Medical Group

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…

Health
7
Hospice of North Iowa

We, mercy health services - iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. hospice of north iowa is a member of mercy health services - iowa…

Human Services
8
Mercy Clinics Inc

We, mercy clinics and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy clinics is a member of trinity health.

Health
9
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
10
Osf Healthcare Foundation

OSF Healthcare Foundation's mission is to develop and implement fund raising strategies to generate contributions from the public in support of the various activities and projects of OSF Healthcare System.

Health
11
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
12
Trinity Health & Affiliates

Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rise Up Recovery. 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

12 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. 12 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST DAMIEN PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL FUND: $860,000 · OtherST DAMIEN PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL FUNDST JOHN'S PREP: $255,000 · OtherST JOHN'S PREPST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH: $105,000 · OtherST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCHSAINT JOHN'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherSAINT JOHN'S PREPARATORY SCHOOLOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE: $75,000 · Other+23 more: $263,682 · Other+23 moreFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $567,100 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USAONE WORLD SURGERY: $386,000 · InternationalONE WORLD SURGERYMAYO CLINIC: $250,000 · HealthMAYO CLINI…ANGEL FOUNDATION: $22,000 · HealthANGEL FOUN…Rise Up Recovery: $25,000 · ReligionUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSOMERSET SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $500 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentALL IN MINISTRIES: $2,500 · Human ServicesTRINITY SOBER HOMES: $1,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,648,682International$953,100Health$272,000Religion$25,000Education$10,500Youth Development$7,000Human Services$2,500Housing & Shelter$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $567,100 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetONE WORLD SURGERY: $386,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRise Up Recovery: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL IN MINISTRIES: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHASTINGS FAMILY SERVICE: $2,219 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOMERSET SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
  • Who funds ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Rise Up Recovery ↗
  • Who funds HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds ALL IN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HASTINGS FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY SOBER HOMES ↗
  • Who funds SOMERSET SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗

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.

Catholic Community Fo…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Catholic Community Foundation of MinnesotaMN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Poepl Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Poepl Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Poepl Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Poepl Family Foundation 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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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