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· Public charity
SIMON SAYS GIVE INC
To develop the next generation of leaders to be unstoppable.
$77k
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
backpacks children
2019
backpacks children
2020
supply kitskits childrenchildren grade
2021
supply kitskits childrenchildren grade
2022
supply kitskits childrenchildren grade
2024
supply kitskits childrenchildren grade
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: $77,287.
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Median grant
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States reached
$10k
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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Youthlink
To support and empower young people on their journey to self-reliance.
Human Services
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Lifeworks Services Inc
Lifeworks partners with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Human Services
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Minnesota Business Partnership
To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.
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Lutheran Social Services of
Stabilize lives during crisis and transition, build a foundation where people can thrive, and preserve dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.
Religion
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Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and
Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper
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United Way of Ne Minnesota
Invest in nonprofits, programs, collaborations that equip, empower and create opportunities for all to thrive.
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Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud is a nonprofit human services organization that in 2024 served 47,220 individuals of all faiths and beliefs across Central Minnesota.
Human Services
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Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc
Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.
Community Improvement
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Keystone Community Services
To strengthen the capacity of individuals and families to improve their quality of life.
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Young Women's Christian Association
To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Human Services
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Community Shares of Minnesota
To create a fair, just, and equitable minnesota.
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Minnesota Medical Association
Be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state & the best place to practice
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Merrick Community Services. 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 52 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.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
4%1/26
the rest of the field
12%
1,637/13,239
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.
The Minneapolis FoundationMN34.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Hunger Solutions Minnesota
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 Simon Says Give Inc?
Find your warmest path to Simon Says Give Inc 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