· Private foundation
Rodney and Barbara Burwell 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $375,000 |
| LUNDSTRUM PERFORMING ARTS | $25,025 |
| YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA | $13,200 |
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART | $10,000 |
| CAN DO CANINES | $6,000 |
| NSCDA DUMBARTON HOUSE | $5,400 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| BRECK SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $4,900 |
| CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| WAYZATA COMMUNITY CHURCH | $4,000 |
| MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY | $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 (FY20–25, $33k) 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER5× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +22%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +14%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- ANABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -92%
- LMLIBERIA MEDICAL RELIEF INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- RARECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +88%
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.
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.
The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…
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…
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
The minnesota state fair foundation's mission is to preserve and improve the historic minnesota state fairgrounds and support state fair programs and projects in agriculture, arts & culture, education, the environment, and history.
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the most unlike its peers is Sing for America 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 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 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.
39 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. 39 of the 54 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 UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Breck School ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds VOCALESSENCE ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds PROOF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LUNDSTRUM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA LUNDSTRUM PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds LIBERIA MEDICAL RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds Long Lake Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Minnesota Opera ↗
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 · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Hognander Foundation · Stanley M & Luella G Goldberg Family Foundation · Sit Investment Associates Foundation · Longview Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · C & K Cunningham Fam Fdn · Wmn 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 Rodney and Barbara Burwell 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.