· Private foundation
Samsara 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 $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $196k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSIONS INC HOME FREE PROGRAM | $46,000 |
| DOMESTIC ABUSE LEGAL ADVOCACY CENTE | $40,000 |
| NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE | $30,000 |
| WE WIN | $20,000 |
| HOPE LOVE OPTION CMMNTY FNDTN OF NW | $20,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| FIERCELY EMBRACED | $10,000 |
| ICWA LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| SUNSET HILL PTSA | $8,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $5,000 |
| PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $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 (FY17–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% 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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 20 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- NPNonviolent Peaceforce9× · 2017–2025 · $395k · revenue +222%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +153%
- DADOMESTIC ABUSE LEGAL ADVOCACY CENTER PSC2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- MFMN FOOD SHARE COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $10k
- D2DISTRICT 281 ECFEone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 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…
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
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 foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
Map is a local, statewide, and national resource for communities looking to develop and implement proven, innovative, community-centered strategies that address gender-based violence. using map's "we are all connected" (waac) prevention…
Gender justice is a nonprofit legal and policy advocacy organization working to advance gender equity through the law.
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Tigerlion Arts. 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 34 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 52 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 Nonviolent Peaceforce ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE LEGAL ADVOCACY CENTER PSC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds JUST DETENTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Sunset Hill PTSA ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds INFANTS REMEMBERED IN SILENCE INC ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATING CHANGE TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds AEON ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds WAYZATA EDUCATION FUND ↗
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 · The Minneapolis Foundation · Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation · Marbrook Foundation · Lenfestey Family Foundation Inc · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Samsara 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.
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 0% 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.