· Private foundation
Sampson Family Charitable 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 $10k26 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREAT RIVER SCHOOL | $12,365 |
| THEATRE IN THE ROUND PLAYERS INC | $10,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP (EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF NETWORK) | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION | $5,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| FRESH ENERGY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| AIRPORT FOUNDATION MSP | $4,120 |
| AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES | $4,000 |
| MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM | $4,000 |
| LYRIC ARTS COMPANY OF ANOKA | $4,000 |
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, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
35 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +12%
- LALYRIC ARTS COMPANY OF ANOKA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +74%
- FGFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- AMACORN MONTESSORI (MN WILDFLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL)one grant, 2020 · $10k
- DDALEKOARTSone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -100%
- BTBANADAD TRAIL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
The guthrie theater engages exceptional theater artists in the exploration of both classic and contemporary plays, connecting the community we serve to one another and to the world. through its extraordinary artists, staff and facility,…
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
Children's Theatre Company exists to create extraordinary theater experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire young people and their communities.
To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.
The mission of theater latte' da is to create new connections between story, music, artist and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater.
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
Present opera performances in duluth, minnesota and bring opera to schools in minnesota and wisconsin.
The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Twin Cities United Way and the most unlike its peers is The Aldeen Foundation. 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 49 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 47 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.
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- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
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- Who funds AIRPORT FOUNDATION MSP ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
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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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Crosswols Foundation · Longview Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen 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 Sampson Family Charitable 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.