· Private foundation
Sampson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| CITY OF BUFFALO LAKE | $37,092 |
| HECTOR HISTORICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| THE BLHS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THOMAS A COSTELLO LEGACY FD | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| ALLISON DORNSEIF CENTRAL LAKES COLL | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% 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 +16% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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
- PDPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +16%
- RCRENVILLE COUNTY FOOD SHELF3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +13%
- SASHARING AND CARING HANDS INC2× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- LBLOBULAR BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +130%
- POPRINCE OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- RURASMUSSEN UNIVERSITYone 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.
Tc food justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in minneapolis, mn. since march 2016 we have been working with co-ops, grocery stores, and farmers markets to redistribute their unsellable foods to local hunger relief…
Community emergency service (ces) is one of the largest food distribution nonprofits serving one of the poorest communities in the twin cities. our mission is to turn hunger into hope through three principal programs: (i) food market, (ii)…
The mission of a touch of the fathers love food pantry and ministry is to: ~alleviate food insecurity in the twin counties area through the distribution of healthy and nutritious food while instilling hope. ~treat all staff, partner…
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
We provide christ-centered, life-changing pathways for all people who are experiencing homelessness, hunger and addiction.
The mission of goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill") is: connecting people to work. preparing people for life. goodwill is dedicated to creating collective community impact through (continued on schedule o)
To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.
Services for residents in area.
By providing food and medicine, we nourish our clients and build community
Awakening to god ministries (atg) provides love, comfort and hope to people who are suffering in the u.s. and around the world by providing spiritual, physical, mental and emotional solutions. in fiscal year 2024, atg partnered with prayer…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed the Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas a Costello Legacy 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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 146 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 LOBULAR BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS A COSTELLO LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RENVILLE COUNTY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds REVERENCE FOR LIFE AND CONCERN FOR PEOPLE 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: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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.