· Private foundation
Rau Family Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of RAU FAMILY TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Coteau Des Prairies Hospital | $3,000 |
| Tekakwitha Living Center | $3,000 |
| Sisseton Volunteer Fire Department | $2,806 |
| Roberts County Rescue Inc | $2,750 |
| Roberts County 4-H Shooting Sports | $2,000 |
| Sisseton School District | $2,000 |
| Roberts County 4-H Leaders Association | $2,000 |
| Sisseton Youth Baseball Association | $1,500 |
| Community Transit Inc | $1,000 |
| Sisseton Area Ministerial Association | $500 |
| St Peters Parish of Roberts County | $500 |
| Family Life Assembly of God | $500 |
| New Hope Free Lutheran Church | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 23%. 0% of your 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- CDCOTEAU DES PRAIRIES HOSPITAL8× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +25%
- SYSISSETON YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOC INC8× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +81%
- CTCOMMUNITY TRANSIT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CDCOTEAU DES PRAIRIES HOSPITAL AND CLINIC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue ×29
- DADisabled American Veterans MilbankSisseton Post 19one grant, 2024 · $363
- NANortheast Ambulance Serviceone grant, 2022 · $300
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 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. 7 of the 36 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 COTEAU DES PRAIRIES HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SISSETON YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSIT INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTS COUNTY SPORTSMENS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds COTEAU DES PRAIRIES HOSPITAL AND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SISSETON ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SISSETON SWIMMING POOL ASSOC 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: Welk Family Foundation · William J Holland and Alyce I Holland 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 Rau Family Trust 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.