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Sanger 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k41 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $675k
- $250k+4 grants · $9.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Depauw University | $3,977,624 |
| Depauw University | $3,919,182 |
| Partners in Food Solutions | $1,009,652 |
| Groves Academy | $279,021 |
| Depauw University | $192,726 |
| Salvation Army | $176,905 |
| Twin Cities United Way | $152,455 |
| Guthrie Theater | $51,202 |
| ChadTough | $51,202 |
| University of Michigan | $50,276 |
| University of Michigan | $25,000 |
| Greenlight Fund | $20,000 |
| Minnesota Zoo Foundation | $20,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund | $10,000 |
| Lynn University | $10,000 |
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 +22% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- MZMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +82%
- LULYNN UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +34%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- DUDEPAUW UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $3.5M
- DADePauw Annual Fundone grant, 2021 · $186k
- CDCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +90%
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
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…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 45 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 147 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 CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Dream of Wild Health ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AEON ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
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 · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Pohlad Family 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.
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