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Roger and Myra Greenberg Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of ROGER AND MYRA GREENBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$106k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE ISRAEL$6,900
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION$1,265
CREATE A MEMORY FOUNDATION$1,000
BRECK SCHOOL$1,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY (BIKE MS)$500
ST PAUL ACADEMY$500
SIX POINTS THEATER$500
MAYO CLINIC$200
MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN$200
GUTHRIE THEATRE FOUNDATION$100
MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION$100
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL$100
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, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $180 → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $100 → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $100 → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $100 → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $100 → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $4k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $3k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $2k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $2k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $100 → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $25 → 14%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $760 → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $25 → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$275k · 19 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$275k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+22%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SF
    SHOLOM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $13k · revenue +29%
  • MO
    MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • MP
    Minneapolis Parks Foundation
    4× · 2018–2021 · $10k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • FF
    FOOD FOR SOUL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +22%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $500

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
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

3
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

4
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
5
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…

6
Minnesota Jewish Community Center

The minnesota jcc is dedicated to strengthening our community by providing inclusive programs that inspire personal growth, foster connection, and promote well-being through arts, culture, education, fitness, early childhood, day camp and…

7
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

9
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
10
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
11
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
12
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Jewish Community Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Breck School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr13%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%73%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr15%5%35–55yr13%13%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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%0/21
the rest of the field
14%
1,904/13,244

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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 26 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE ISRAEL — $200,133 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAELST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION — $9,000 · OtherCREATE A MEMORY FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Other+9 more — $12,550 · Other+9 moreSHOLOM FOUNDATION — $13,285 · Human ServicesSHOLOM FO…MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,625 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA…+1 more — $580 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $10,030 · Arts & CultureSix Points Theater — $4,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $700 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $450 · Arts & CultureMinneapolis Parks Foundation — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION — $7,200 · PhilanthropyBreck School — $5,000 · EducationMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $400 · EducationFOOD FOR SOUL INC — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$229,683Human Services$24,490Arts & Culture$15,180Recreation & Sports$10,000Philanthropy$7,200Education$5,400Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHOLOM FOUNDATION — $13,285 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,625 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $10,030 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMinneapolis Parks Foundation — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION — $7,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBreck School — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSix Points Theater — $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA HILLEL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL — $580 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNGLE THEATER — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinnPost — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER LATTE DA — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ-HAP INC — $100 over 1y, 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 SHOLOM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Minneapolis Parks Foundation
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION
  • Who funds Breck School
  • Who funds Six Points Theater
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL
  • Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FOOD FOR SOUL INC
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE JUNGLE THEATER
  • Who funds MinnPost
  • Who funds THEATER LATTE DA
  • Who funds J-HAP 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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN27.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Weiser Family Foundation · Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation · The Phileona Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Longview Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Rum Fund · The Lynn and Gloria Johnson Family Foundation · The Head 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 Roger and Myra Greenberg 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to Roger and Myra Greenberg Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Roger and Myra Greenberg Family 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 26 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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