· Private foundation
Rooted Philanthropic
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $406k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $530k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILL-MURRAY FOUNDATION | $530,000 |
| LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $219,000 |
| INDIGENOUS ROOTS | $172,500 |
| CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM | $160,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $130,000 |
| ESABA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $129,600 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION | $119,600 |
| HMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION | $110,000 |
| URBAN ROOTS | $75,325 |
| THE SANNEH FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| THERESA LIVING CENTER | $60,000 |
| LAND BANK TWIN CITIES INC | $60,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $50,000 |
| EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - M HEALTH FARVIEW | $50,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $216k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 15 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $517k 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
- IRIndigenous Roots3× · 2023–2025 · $319k · revenue +52%
- WWOMENVENTURE2× · 2024–2025 · $135k · revenue +2%
- TSTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $118k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- HMHILL MURRAY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $480k
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $248k · revenue 0%- FCFORTIS CAPITALone grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue 0%
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.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
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 Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.
Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor. The Lake Street Council fosters economic vitality and amplifies Lake…
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…
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
The Organization's mission is to create a radical future for Black Minnesotans by advancing Black-Centered policies and solutions that actualize true liberation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Community Blessing Outreach Inc. 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 25 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 67 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 EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Latino Economic Development Center ↗
- Who funds THE ESABA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indigenous Roots ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM ↗
- Who funds THERESA LIVING CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN ROOTS MN ↗
- Who funds WOMENVENTURE ↗
- Who funds FORTIS CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PAYNE-PHALEN COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CAMP ODAYIN ↗
- Who funds THE NEW IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Council on Foundations ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds 180 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds LAND BANK TWIN CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Fairview Health Services ↗
- Who funds LOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Target Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Northwest Area 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 Rooted Philanthropic 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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