· Private foundation
Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Givinga Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 53 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k67 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $233k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $758k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREEKSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $128,200 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER | $127,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $123,750 |
| THE FRIENDS OF THE FRIEDRICH CIVIC CENTER | $100,000 |
| SHELDON THEATRE | $65,000 |
| UNITED WAY - GWP | $63,211 |
| RED WING YOUTH OUTREACH | $50,401 |
| CREEKSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP | $50,000 |
| RED WING ARTS ASSOCIATION | $36,100 |
| HEALING PLAY INC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| HOPE & HARBOR HOMELESS SHELTER | $20,600 |
| NATIONAL EAGLE CENTER | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSAL MUSIC CENTER | $16,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2022, 20 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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
- CMCREEKSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $179k · revenue +9%
- RPRISEUP PARTNERSHIP3× · 2020–2022 · $146k · revenue +224%
- RWRED WING IGNITE2× · 2020–2021 · $67k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIESone grant, 2020 · $92k · revenue -18%
- ZSZUMBROTA STATE THEATREone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -46%
- LSLake Street Councilone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -85%
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 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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
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.
The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
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…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
Engaging the community to end hunger
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Prescott 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 36 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 221 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CREEKSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RISEUP PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FRIEDRICH CIVIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds RED WING IGNITE ↗
- Who funds Red Wing Arts Association ↗
- Who funds EAGLEWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE & HARBOR ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSAL MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds C A R E Clinic ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RED WING FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ZUMBROTA STATE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HEALING PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds LAKE PEPIN LEGACY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ELLSWORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds RED WING ARE SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds GOODHUE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RED WING DOWNTOWN MAIN STREET ↗
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Jones Family Foundation · Givinga Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Goodhuewabasha & Pierce Counties · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Albrecht-Poss Family 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 Red Wing Shoe Company 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Venice Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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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