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· Public charity
Second Harvest Northland
End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin
$19M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
feedingreferredjuvenilejusticesystemfiledbankruptcy
2019
feedingreferredjuvenilejusticesystemfiledbankruptcy
2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
freedomblackvineyard foodmeansbridgeelyfeeding
2024
healthyfreewaycassitascacare childreninformation
2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $18,675,119.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$23M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Hubbard County Food Shelf
Receive and dispense food to needy clients
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Lonsdale Area Food Shelf Inc
Provide emergency food relief for the families in the Lonsdale MN region .
Food & Nutrition
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Loon Lake Food Pantry & Resource Center
The Mission of Loon Lake Food Pantry & Resource Center is to feed the hungry and provide food to persons in need, to establish support systems that promote and maintain the food bank, and to assist in the resource development and growth of…
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Heavens Table Food Shelf
Provide food to hungry individuals in martin county, mn
Food & Nutrition
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Big Lake Community Food Shelf Inc
Distribute food to those in need
Human Services
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People Responding in Social Ministry
To provide social services and connections that empower people in our community to build healthy, stable lives.
Human Services
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Kandiyohi County Food Shelf
By utilizing and bringing together community resources the willmar area food shelf will provide food assistance to individuals and families. our goal is to insure no one goes hungry.
Food & Nutrition
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Twin Lakes Food Bank
To Share God's Love by Uniting and mobilizing the community to provide food, clothing and support to those in need.
Unclassified
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Twin Lakes Area Food Pantry Inc
Food pantry
Human Services
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Kettle Falls Community Chest
Food is collected through donations and purchases, then distributed on an as needed basis.
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Hilltop Regional Kitchen
Serve fresh and frozen meals to seniors, disabled and homebound individuals in central MN. Over 60,000 meals served annually to over 400 individuals.
Food & Nutrition
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Community Crisis Services and Food Bank
Our vision: every individual in our community has support in a time of need.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Superior Community Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Domestic Abuse Intervention. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 36 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/89
the rest of the field
6%
206/3,441
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.
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.
Second Harvest North Central Food BankMN93.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Second Harvest North Central Food Bank · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Northland Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community · Head of the Lakes United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Smdc Medical Center · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mardag Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · Hearth Connection
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Second Harvest Northland?
Find your warmest path to Second Harvest Northland through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines