· Private foundation
Skanse 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $271k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC - DIABETIC RESEARCH | $125,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL | $30,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| DAMASCUS WAY RE-ENTRY CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| SHARING AND CARING HANDS | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAS | $20,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $15,000 |
| HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST | $15,000 |
| ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING-ARTS | $15,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $11,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
41 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% 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
- MAMINNEHAHA ACADEMY4× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +50%
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAM8× · 2017–2025 · $327k · revenue +161%
- AFAVENUES FOR YOUTH5× · 2017–2022 · $156k · revenue +220%
Funded once
- HTHENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +39%
- AIATHLETES IN ACTION - A CRU MINISTRYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MMICROGRANTSone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -19%
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.
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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 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…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
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…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is All Secure Foundation Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 69 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 MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DAMASCUS WAY RE-ENTRY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc ↗
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 · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · American Gift Fund · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Skanse Family Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.