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Rachel 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| AP CONST CHARITABLE EVENTS FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| BAME FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| FORE PARKINSON'S | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT | $3,000 |
| CROSS SERVICES | $2,500 |
| NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| MONTICELLO HELP CENTER | $2,000 |
| CHAD SMITH RIDE FOR LIFE | $1,500 |
| MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| THUMBS UP HIGH 5K | $1,500 |
| ALLIANCE FOR WILDLIFE & CONSERVATION | $1,500 |
| KRAUS ANDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,350 |
| ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING | $1,250 |
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 (FY22–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +25% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 16 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +43%
- BFBAME FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +41%
- C(CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- NLNorthern Lights Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +125%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ROCHESTERone grant, 2022 · $4k
- SCST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
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…
Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
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…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
We offer relief to cancer patients and their loved ones through financial assistance, education, and emotional support.
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving and the most unlike its peers is Bame Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 61 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 CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) ↗
- Who funds Northern Lights Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHAD SMITH RIDE FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds FIREFLY SISTERHOOD ↗
- Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds ANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds KRAUS ANDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTICELLO CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT COUNTY FRONTLINE OUTREACH I ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR WILDLIFE & CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds THUMBS UP HIGH 5K ↗
- Who funds ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds CORNERHOUSE ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Graco Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust · Api Group Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Bame Foundation · Connexus Energy Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 Rachel 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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