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Scott C and Gina M Gage Family Foundation at a glance

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Scott C and Gina M Gage Family 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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$98kRecreation & Sports$12kYouth Development$11kHealth$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kReligion$7kEnvironment$6kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$576k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Kansas 4H Foundation$5,000
Nature Conservancy$5,000
Griswold Home Care Foundation$1,000
Dassel Area Historical Society$500
Blaine Ham Lake Rotary$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Griswold Home Care Foundation: $1k → 7%Griswold Home Care Foundation: $1k → 7%THE LINK: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Scott C and Gina M Gage Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Scott C and Gina M Gage Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 9 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$110k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+37%

Still filing today

89%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AU
    AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +30%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +58%
  • TB
    THE BLAKE SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
  • CD
    CU DISABILITY SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • TL
    THE LINKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +86%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

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…

Education
4
Minnesota African Womens Association

TO Promote the health and well being of African refugee and immigrant women and their families in the twin City area through research, education ,advocacy and programming

Human Services
5
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
6
Minnesota State Fair Foundation

The minnesota state fair foundation's mission is to preserve and improve the historic minnesota state fairgrounds and support state fair programs and projects in agriculture, arts & culture, education, the environment, and history.

Philanthropy
7
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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8
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
9
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
10
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

—
12
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dassel Area Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $57,332 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $24,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOL+1 more: $1,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $9,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOCU DISABILITY SERVICES: $8,500 · OtherCU DISABILITY SERVICESTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYBENILDE ST MARGARETS HIGH SCHOOL: $3,000 · OtherBENILDE ST MARGARETS HIGH SCHOOLWAYZATA COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherPERSPECTIVES INC: $2,000 · OtherWayzata Community Church: $2,000 · Other+12 more: $8,750 · Other+12 moreHOCKEY LIMITED: $11,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE LINK: $5,000 · Human ServicesGRISWOLD HOME CARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesKansas 4-H Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWomen's Foundation of Minnesota: $4,900 · PhilanthropyLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL OF AFRICA: $4,000 · International
Education$88,832Other$50,250Recreation & Sports$11,500Human Services$7,000Youth Development$5,000Philanthropy$4,900International$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $57,332 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $24,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKEY LIMITED: $11,500 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LINK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Minnesota: $4,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRISWOLD HOME CARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMinnesota Good Works: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLAKE EFFECT CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION NETWORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDASSEL AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTORIES FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…United Way WorldwideRaymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scott C and Gina M Gage Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scott C and Gina M Gage Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Scott C and Gina M Gage Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Scott C and Gina M Gage Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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