· Private foundation
Rice Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE | $16,750 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| NY WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE OF THE LAKE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| THREE RIVER PARK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HUNT HILL NATURE CENTER | $1,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $248 |
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 (FY18–20, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 8% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2025 · $298k · revenue +10%- AALIGHT2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +48%
- WRWILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY OF THE ST CROIX & NAMEKAGON3× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WI EAU CLAIREone grant, 2023 · $91k
SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONALone grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue -40%- CCCHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +239%
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 land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
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…
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.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
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…
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 purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foolproof Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 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.
24 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. 24 of the 43 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 NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOLPROOF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY OF THE ST CROIX & NAMEKAGON ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds Valley Outreach ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ↗
- Who funds VINLAND NATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WITHOUT GENOCIDE INC ↗
- Who funds SUITUP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HUNT HILL NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FRASER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MULTIFAITH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Sit Investment Associates Foundation · Allina Health System · Hardenbergh Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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 Rice 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.
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.