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Redleaf Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$265k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Civil Rights$448kInternational$381kHuman Services$367kEducation$194kHousing & Shelter$100kCrime & Legal$9kReligion$7kPhilanthropy$810Other$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THINK SMALL$250,000
ACLU MN FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $367k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $100 → 11%WAY TO GROW: $75k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $2k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $1k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $1k → 11%THINK SMALL: $250k → 14%THINK SMALL: $21k → 14%THINK SMALL: $15k → 14%THINK SMALL: $750 → 14%THINK SMALL: $750 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 11 repeat orgs$507k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
31

Total granted

$1.0M
$507k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-2%

Still filing today

55%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCivil RightsHealthInternationalEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $174k · revenue +14%
  • WT
    WAY TO GROW
    4× · 2017–2020 · $79k · revenue +41%
  • FJ
    FAMILY JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER
    3× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • GI
    GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING
    one grant, 2017 · $381k
  • PS
    PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +287%
  • ES
    EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $19k

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.

1
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
2
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

3
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Foundation

Supporting planned parenthood of the heartland, inc.

4
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
5
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

6
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

12
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Serving People Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Smile Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACLU MN FOUNDATION — $448,000 · OtherACLU MN FOUNDATIONGLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING — $380,917 · OtherGLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING+29 more — $33,438 · OtherThink Small — $287,240 · Human ServicesThink SmallWAY TO GROW — $79,400 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROW+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE — $173,817 · EducationSARAH LAWRENC…PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER — $7,540 · Civil Rights+1 more — $25 · Civil RightsHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $525 · HealthFairview Foundation — $20 · HealthHIAS INC — $36 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC — $25 · International
Other$862,355Human Services$366,740Education$173,817Housing & Shelter$100,000Civil Rights$7,565Health$545International$61

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThink Small — $287,240 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE — $173,817 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWAY TO GROW — $79,400 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILY JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER — $7,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Defense Center — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $43 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $20 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFairview Foundation — $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Think Small
  • Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC
  • Who funds WAY TO GROW
  • Who funds FAMILY JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER
  • Who funds The Family Defense Center
  • Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds HIAS INC
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC
  • Who funds Fairview Foundation
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Redleaf Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 88%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Redleaf Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Redleaf Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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