· Private foundation
Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k58 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA INC | $5,000 |
| ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| VINES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE | $2,500 |
| NORTHLAND FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE | $2,500 |
| COLLEGE OF ST BENEDICT BUSINESS OFF | $2,500 |
| SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITYGIVING | $2,500 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| ST BENEDICTS MONASTERY | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +8%
- PCPARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +134%
- OFOrphanos Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- CFCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUDone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
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…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
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.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Wine to Water. 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 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 59 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 COMMUNITYGIVING ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Orphanos Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds St Cloud Area Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE VINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Elevate Pregnancy and Family Resource Center ↗
- Who funds UNITECLOUD ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
- Who funds QUIET OAKS ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AREA CHILDREN TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS 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: Communitygiving · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Morgan Family Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Central Minnesota · Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc · The McKnight Foundation · Ja Wedum Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Central Minnesota Arts Board
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 Rick and Helga Bauerly 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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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