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QUETICO SUPERIOR FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$101k
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
1
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Environment$500kYouth Development$20kArts & Culture$13kOther$24k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
boundary waterswilderness
2023
wilderness
2024
youth
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY$30,000
- NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS$30,000
- WATERLEGACY$20,000
- YMCA CAMP NORTHERN LIGHTS$10,000
- FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS$5,000
- URBAN BOATBUILDERS$5,000
- HEART OF THE CONTINENT PARTNERSHIP$1,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$534k · 8 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +153% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
2
Total granted
$534k
$13k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+153%
-15%
Still filing today
88%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- MCMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY6× · 2019–2024 · $205k · revenue +15%
- NMNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +153%
- WWATERLEGACY3× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +554%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SMSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -15%
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.
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Land Conservancy of West Michigan
The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.
Environment
2
Minnesota Environmental Partnership
See schedule o.mep is a coalition of 70 minnesota environmental and conservation organizations working together to protect and restore minnesota's clean water, land, climate and air quality, and address environmental justice. the…
Environment
3
Minnesota Fishing Museum &
The organization was created for the purpose of developing an attraction and a museum to collect, preserve, and display the artifacts of the sport of fresh water angling; and to perform a program of recognition of persons and organizations…
Arts & Culture
4
Conservation Minnesota
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
Environment
5
Minnesota Land Trust
Protect and restore mn's most vital natural lands for generations to come.
Environment
6
Wyoming Outdoor Council
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations
Environment
7
Wild Rivers Conservancy of the
The wild rivers conservancy of the st. croix & namekagon's mission is to inspire stewardship to forever ensure the rare ecological integrity of the st. croix and namekagon riverway.
Environment
8
Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Inc
In its 10th year Upper Missouri Waterkeeper expanded its science-based advocacy efforts protecting clean water, and focused on using the law to ensure accountability for cleaning up polluted waters. Among the more notable successes was the…
Education
9
Lake Michigan Bird Observatory
Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.
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10
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
The minnesota marine art museum engages visitors in meaningful visual art experiences through education and exhibitions that explore the ongoing and historic human relationship with water.
Arts & Culture
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Minnesota Zoo Foundation
The minnesota zoo foundation raises contributed income and supports conservation and animal care programs on behalf of the minnesota zoo. the mission of the minnesota zoo is to connect people, animals, and the natural world to save…
Animals
12
Center for Wooden Boats
Promotes northwest maritime heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience.
Recreation & Sports
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness and the most unlike its peers is Ernest C Oberholtzer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Environment$500,000Other$24,000Youth Development$20,000Arts & Culture$12,500
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 MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds WATERLEGACY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN BOATBUILDERS ↗
- Who funds ERNEST C OBERHOLTZER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
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.
The Minneapolis FoundationMN19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation QUETICO SUPERIOR 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WATERLEGACY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~58 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 263999186 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WATERLEGACY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 58 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Quetico Superior Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Quetico Superior Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines