· Private foundation
Robert E and Edith M Grissinger Fd
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $732k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $56,000 |
| Black Men Teach | $40,000 |
| The Family Partneship | $36,000 |
| Project for Pride in Living | $31,000 |
| Liberty Community Church | $31,000 |
| Phyllis Wheatley Community Center | $31,000 |
| Community Partners With Youth | $31,000 |
| All Nations Rise | $31,000 |
| The Link | $31,000 |
| Young Hearts Open Minds | $31,000 |
| Northern Voices | $31,000 |
| Rise Early Learning Center | $31,000 |
| Ujamaa Place | $31,000 |
| Childrens Defense Fund | $31,000 |
| Cento Tyrone Guzman | $31,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $557k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 24 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $548k 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
- YYOUTHLINK7× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +4%
- NANORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE5× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +88%
- GRGREAT RIVER GREENING4× · 2021–2024 · $101k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- LCLiberty Community Church PCUSAone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MAMontessori Amer Indian Childcareone grant, 2019 · $20k
- SPSt Paul Friend of Youthone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Through service, Minnesota Alliance With Youth develops leaders who foster young people's individual assets, honor their voices, and prepare them to reach their goals.
World Youth Connect builds communities across cultures and beyond borders. By creating and encouraging civic engagement opportunities we help young people gain the skills and experience they need to be successful. World Youth Connect…
Preventing domestic violence and sexual abuse in communities of color throughout minnesota and the nation. by providing culturally-specific resources to women and girls of african descent, we hope to change the cycle of gender-based abuse…
The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.
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 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.
Child care aware of minnesota was incorporated in 1992 to provide technical assistance, training and coordination for the child care resource and referral programs throughout minnesota, to collect data regarding the supply of and demand…
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
We provide a land-based place for people of all ages, especially those from black, indigenous & communities of color, to gather, rest, heal & build community for collective thriving.
The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Kwanzaa Community Church Pcusa Liberty Community Church Pcusa. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 52 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 YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
- Who funds BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW ↗
- Who funds JOYCE PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds MIGIZI Communications Inc ↗
- Who funds Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
- Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VOICES ↗
- Who funds UJAMAA PLACE ↗
- Who funds ALL NATIONS RISE INC ↗
- Who funds Kwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Community Partners with Youth ↗
- Who funds Rise Early Learning Center ↗
- Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAGAMALA DANCE ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mortenson Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Robert E and Edith M Grissinger Fd 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.
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