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Rose Francis 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAY TO GROW | $50,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $50,000 |
| READY SET SMILE | $35,000 |
| CONSTELLATION FUND | $25,000 |
| WALKER ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE HOUSING | $10,000 |
| BANYAN COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| INSPIRE MSP | $10,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| EMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| YOUTH LINK FOOD SHELF | $5,000 |
| PROJECT SUCCESS | $5,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $660k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +52% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- WTWAY TO GROW9× · 2017–2025 · $660k · revenue +41%
- WAWALKER ART CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $349k · revenue +87%
- RSREADY SET SMILE PA9× · 2017–2025 · $311k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- GTGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -6%
- LOLEGACY OF DR JOSIE JOHNSONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- GCGREEN CITIES ACCORDone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -71%
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.
Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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,…
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…
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…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.
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.
Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Aj Blain 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 29 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 40 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 WAY TO GROW ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds READY SET SMILE PA ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Constellation Fund ↗
- Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds JUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Highpoint Center for Printmaking ↗
- Who funds INSPIREMSP ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Youth Farm and Market Project ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN CITIES ACCORD ↗
- Who funds THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE THIRD RAIL ↗
- Who funds The Art Base ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds WATCH ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Humanities Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Minneapolis Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CITIZENS FOR THE ARTS 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The McKnight Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Target Foundation · Smikis Foundation · Frey 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 Rose Francis 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.