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Riverway Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$237k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$348kHousing & Shelter$247kHuman Services$176kHealth$160kPublic Safety & Disaster$140kYouth Development$81kCommunity Improvement$65kRecreation & Sports$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $138k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE ACADEMY$39,850
V3 SPORTS$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY$10,000
CRISTO REY$7,500
TREE HOUSE$7,500
DUNWOODY$7,500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$6,000
YOUTH FRONTIERS$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$5,000
YMCA OF THE NORTH$5,000
PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION$5,000
TASTE FORE THE TOUR$5,000
URBAN VENTURES$5,000
URBAN HOMEWORKS$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DWELLING PLACE: $3k → 7%DWELLING PLACE: $3k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $70k → 14%THE DWELLING PLACE: $2k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%DWELLING PLACE: $2k → 7%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%THE DWELLING PLACE: $2k → 7%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $2k → 14%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%ELIPIS ENTERPRISES: $2k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%ELIPIS ENTERPRISES: $2k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $2k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $2k → 14%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $2k → 14%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $5k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $5k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $3k → 14%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER TWIN CITIES: $15k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $5k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $5k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER TWIN CITIES: $5k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $5k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER TWIN CITIES: $5k → 11%HUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $5k → 11%HUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $2k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $3k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 66 repeat orgs$236k 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 +14% for the ones you funded once.

66 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
54

Total granted

$1.2M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+14%

Still filing today

73%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • HA
    HOPE ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +240%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +22%
  • UV
    URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • UH
    Urban Homeworks
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HA
    Hope Academy
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • CR
    CHRISTO RAY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $8k

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
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

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
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
4
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
5
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
6
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
7
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

8
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

9
Childs Place

The mission of Childs Place is to listen to children in a safe developmentally sensitive and legally sound manner; to unite professionals in a coordinated response to child abuse; to guide children and families toward healing through…

Human Services
10
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

11
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
12
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Breannas Gift. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLabor Union LocalsEnvironmental Conservation …Neighborhood Revitalization…Minnesota Community Foundat…Veterans Service Organizati…Family Philanthropic Founda…Professional Association Ne…Rotary Service OrganizationsSocial Justice & Climate Ad…Basic Needs & Family Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%50%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr13%19%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
14%
1,904/13,198

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.

04the grantee network

64 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 124 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
46/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $65,000 · OtherURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONUrban Homeworks — $50,000 · OtherUrban HomeworksHope Academy — $36,000 · OtherHope AcademyAMERICAN RED CROSS — $30,000 · OtherCRISTO REY — $23,000 · OtherDUNWOODY — $22,500 · Other+81 more — $383,800 · Other+81 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $110,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN …GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $32,500 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS C…PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $17,500 · Human ServicesPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATIO…FRASER — $16,000 · Human ServicesFRASERThe Dwelling Place — $12,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $10,000 · Human Services+9 more — $43,500 · Human Services+9 moreHOPE ACADEMY INC — $200,350 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INCPEACEMAKER MINNESOTA — $9,500 · Education+2 more — $6,000 · EducationHOUSING IN ACTION INC — $170,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING IN ACT…PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $13,500 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE SERVING…+1 more — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterTREEHOUSE INC — $31,500 · HealthWashburn Center for Children — $17,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $9,500 · HealthANGEL FOUNDATION — $7,000 · HealthCaringBridge — $6,000 · HealthTUBMAN — $3,000 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $3,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthV3 SPORTS INC — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsTRUE FRIENDS — $8,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · Recreation & SportsONE HEARTLAND — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsLIVING LANDS & WATERS — $45,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · Environment
Other$610,300Human Services$281,500Education$215,850Housing & Shelter$185,500Health$79,500Recreation & Sports$53,000Environment$46,000

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 budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC — $200,350 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSING IN ACTION INC — $170,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS — $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetV3 SPORTS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $32,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC — $31,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBridging Inc — $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRASER — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dwelling Place — $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMICROGRANTS — $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEMAKER MINNESOTA — $9,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS — $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER — $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER RELATED EVENTS — $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetElpis Enterprises — $7,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCaringBridge — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFETRACK RESOURCES INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBreannas Gift — $5,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEVERY MEAL — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSojourner Project Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGoodwill Industries Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAKKEN — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lift Garage — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA DARE INC — $3,600 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTUBMAN — $3,000 over 2y, 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 HOPE ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH
  • Who funds V3 SPORTS INC
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE INC
  • Who funds Bridging Inc
  • Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Washburn Center for Children
  • Who funds FRASER
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND
  • Who funds The Dwelling Place
  • Who funds MICROGRANTS
  • Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC
  • Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC
  • Who funds TRUE FRIENDS
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER
  • Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC
  • Who funds HUNGER RELATED EVENTS
  • Who funds Elpis Enterprises

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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN57× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Sauer 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 Riverway 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Riverway Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Riverway 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 124 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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