· Public charity
Ramsey Lions Club
Service to the community by promoting the theory and practice of the principles of good government and citizenship.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $285,710 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $451,657 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $165,947 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF RAMSEY | $62,442 |
| CAN DO CANINES | $31,000 |
| STEP STONE HOUSING | $25,000 |
| ANOKA RAMSEY COMM COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ANOKA HENN TECH COLLEGE FOUND | $25,000 |
| IMPACT SERVICES | $15,000 |
| ALEXANDRA HOUSE | $15,000 |
| TRUE FRIENDS | $13,268 |
| ANOKA HENN EDUC FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VETERANS ON THE LAKE | $10,000 |
| PROJECT NEW HOPE | $6,000 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $6,000 |
| MD5M KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RSRAMSEY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND6× · 2017–2023 · $330k · revenue +81% · 100% of their budget
- ATANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +24%
- CDCAN DO CANINES8× · 2017–2025 · $231k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- EHEAGLES HEALING NESTone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -48%
- MHMercy Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +156%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +111%
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.
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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.
To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents, and survivors.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The foundation supports initiatives designed to transform and enhance the experience of aging. the focus is on: catalytic change in building the workforce for tomorrow; advancing new approaches to service delivery; and developing…
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
Minnesota assistance council for veterans (macv) is dedicated to a mission to end veteran homelessness in minnesota. macv provides services to veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness throughout minnesota in areas of housing,…
United hospital foundation exists to enhance the health of united hospital patients and the wellness of the community we serve. the foundation, year after year, has proven that a true partnership between community and hospital guarantees…
To provide accessible and affordable accommodations for patients and their care givers while seeking specialty neurological healthcare in rochester, mn.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Friends and the most unlike its peers is Ramsey Scholarship Trust Fund. 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 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 34 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 RAMSEY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds MERCY AND UNITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LIONS HEARING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LIONS VISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ON THE LAKE RESORT ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LIONS DIABETES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds HAVEN FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES HEALING NEST ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENCE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NEW HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise in Anoka County ↗
- Who funds ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FIRST COMMUNITY OF PROMISE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: Connexus Energy Foundation · The Graco Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Deal Family Foundation · Walter C Rasmussen - Northeast Bank Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Connexus Energy · Allina Health System · Edina Realty Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota
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 Ramsey Lions Club 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.