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Prospect Creek Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$6.6MPhilanthropy$3.5MHealth$3.0MArts & Culture$960kCrime & Legal$102kEnvironment$70kCivil Rights$50kHuman Services$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.8M
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE (DAFGIVING360)$3,000,000
GREAT MN SCHOOLS$1,200,000
SUMMIT ACADEMY$550,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$25,065
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS$20,000
BLAKE SCHOOL$15,000
ETC FOUNDATION$7,500
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
ST PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$5,000
MINNESOTA OPERA$5,000
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$4,000
MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION$3,000
TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION$3,000
MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OIC OF AMERICA: $10k → 22%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $4k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
NC
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 56 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
46

Total granted

$11M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+38%

Still filing today

70%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • GM
    GREAT MN SCHOOLS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +39% · 33% of their budget
  • SA
    SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +8%
  • GT
    GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $325k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAYO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • OH
    OLE HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +28%
  • BC
    BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +106%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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5
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
6
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
12
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the most unlike its peers is St Helena Community Food Pantry. 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr18%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%58%10–20yr17%3%20–35yr16%6%35–55yr18%33%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/72
the rest of the field
10%
3,828/38,917

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 106 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
58/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREAT MN SCHOOLS — $4,526,115 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLSUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $2,800,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $1,740,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC+9 more — $308,065 · EducationSCHWAB CHARITABLE (DAFGIVING360) — $3,000,000 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE (DAFGIVING36…MAYO FOUNDATION — $500,000 · OtherMAYO FOUNDATION+61 more — $399,434 · Other+61 moreGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $325,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART CENTER — $254,114 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $174,000 · Arts & CultureOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $110,000 · PhilanthropyAcademic Freedom Alliance — $5,000 · PhilanthropyMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthSt Helena Hospital Foundation — $40,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $10,000 · HealthTUBMAN — $4,000 · HealthBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $100,000 · Crime & LegalGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $50,000 · Civil Rights
Education$9,374,180Other$3,899,434Arts & Culture$913,114Philanthropy$115,000Health$104,000Crime & Legal$100,000Civil Rights$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS — $4,526,115 over 5y, 33% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $2,800,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $1,740,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER — $254,114 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $151,065 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSt Helena Hospital Foundation — $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTERS OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST HELENA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAYWOLF PRESS — $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetETC FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHighpoint Center for Printmaking — $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN CLAY CENTER — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAcademic Freedom Alliance — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHEATER LATTE DA — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTUBMAN — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLake Minnetonka Association — $4,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrailblazer Foundation — $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS AND FOUNDATION ST HELENA PUBLIC LIBRARY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS & TRAILS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Frances & Frank Wilki…The Crosswols Foundat…The Head Family Found…Longview FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Ch Robinson Worldwide…William Boss Foundati…Greystone Foundation
Xcel Energy FoundationMN27.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation · The Crosswols Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Longview Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · William Boss Foundation · Greystone 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 Prospect Creek 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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