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Robins Kaplan 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k103 grants · $221k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $467k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS | $32,282 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY | $26,000 |
| SOUTHERN MINNESOTA REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES | $25,000 |
| PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | $20,000 |
| VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK | $17,500 |
| ECONOMIC CLUB OF MINNESOTA | $16,645 |
| ECONOMIC CLUB OF MINNESOTA | $16,645 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| THE AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA | $15,000 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
136 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $264k · revenue +57%
- UOUniversity of St Thomas2× · 2021–2022 · $206k · revenue +28%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $203k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- LSLake Street Councilone grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue -85%
- WBWEST BROADWAY BUSINESS AND AREA COALITIONone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -93%
- UBUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
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 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…
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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
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…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Best Buy Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
185 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. 185 of the 277 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Advocates For Human Rights ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC CLUB OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE REDEMPTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Urban Debate League ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Fredrikson & Byron 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 Robins Kaplan 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- National Black Justice Coalition Inc — 17% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% 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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