· Private foundation
Rusty & Mary Jane Poepl 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST DAMIEN PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL | $43,000 |
| SHARING & CARING HANDS | $15,000 |
| ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CSCOE | $10,000 |
| ANGEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BENEDICTINE FOUNDATION - REGINA | $10,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| MIM | $5,000 |
| DAKOTA CITY HERITAGE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| NATION OF PATRIOTS | $5,000 |
| LUNDSTRUM CENTER FOR PERFORMING ART | $5,000 |
| ONE WORLD SURGERY | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASHARING AND CARING HANDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +85%
- NONation of Patriots Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +13%
- FFFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +211%
Funded once
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENone grant, 2018 · $15k
- CCSCOone grant, 2019 · $15k
- SJST JOHN'S SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $15k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
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Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
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Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Nation of Patriots Inc ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds LUNDSTRUM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA LUNDSTRUM PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VEGA PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds IRONWOOD SPRINGS CHRISTIAN RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Gift Fund · The Minneapolis Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rusty & Mary Jane Poepl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rusty & Mary Jane Poepl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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