· Private foundation
Saul Winton Fund
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 $10k11 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $13,000 |
| PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING | $9,300 |
| NORTHPOINT HEALTH AND WELLNESS | $7,900 |
| GREATER MN CRISIS NURSERY | $5,000 |
| ST DAVIDS CENTER | $5,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $3,960 |
| COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES | $3,692 |
| YOUTHLINK | $2,900 |
| ZACAH | $2,500 |
| MOZILLA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| STEP | $1,000 |
| CORNERHOUSE | $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 (FY17–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- PFPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC6× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +36%
- CFCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION4× · 2020–2023 · $33k · revenue +36%
- AAl-Maa'uun2× · 2022–2023 · $12k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TWTWIN WEST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- NPNORTH POINT INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -21%
- PUPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES- NORTH MARKETone grant, 2017 · $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 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…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
Preventing domestic violence and sexual abuse in communities of color throughout minnesota and the nation. by providing culturally-specific resources to women and girls of african descent, we hope to change the cycle of gender-based abuse…
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…
Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.
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…
The minnesota jcc is dedicated to strengthening our community by providing inclusive programs that inspire personal growth, foster connection, and promote well-being through arts, culture, education, fitness, early childhood, day camp and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is North Point Inc. 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 44 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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 45 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 MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION ↗
- Who funds Al-Maa'uun ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds UJAMAA PLACE ↗
- Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH POINT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family Tree Inc ↗
- Who funds MOZILLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Voice ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS ↗
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 · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Target Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minnesota Community Foundation · The McKnight 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 Saul Winton Fund 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.
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