· Public charity
Smdc Medical Center
We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.
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.
The 47 grants below total $1,496,738 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,635,198 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $138,460 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $421k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $740k
- $250k+1 grant · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA | $266,974 |
| CITY OF SANDSTONE | $189,400 |
| CITY OF DULUTH | $125,000 |
| MILLER DWAN FOUNDATION | $111,308 |
| SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES FOOD BANK | $110,450 |
| DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA | $93,400 |
| FIRST WITNESS CHILD ABUSE RESOURCE CENTER | $60,000 |
| ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NORTH ST LOUIS COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $29,780 |
| LAKES AREA KIDS ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA | $21,500 |
| PROGRAM FOR AID TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT INC | $20,200 |
| SMART NORTH | $20,000 |
| POLAR CUBS CHILDCARE CENTER | $20,000 |
| DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC | $20,000 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 16 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k 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
- ORONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +350% · 36% of their budget
- COCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +3%
- MFMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES7× · 2017–2025 · $694k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $792k · revenue +12%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2018 · $240k
- CCCENTER CITY HOUSING CORPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +64%
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.
Promote health through skiing
To improve access to quality health care for all.
To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
Providing direct and indirect services in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilites, and substance use to residents of aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
The organizations's mission is to provide significant recreational opportunities to the citizens of duluth, mn. specifically the center's programs are directed to the youth of the city and the boys and girls club that utilizes a…
Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.
Our mission is "Partnering to Create a Healthier Community." NorthPoint seeks to reduce health disparities, improve health outcomes, and enhance the overall quality of life for all residents of North Minneapolis
Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.
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…
Pinewood - duluth, inc. is a day support services agency providing pre-vocational and vocational services for persons having intellectual and developmental disabilities who are eighteen (18) years of age and older. persons attending…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Roof Community Housing and the most unlike its peers is Central Range Pickleball Club. 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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 153 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 ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds JUST KIDS DENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROGRAM FOR AID TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH ↗
- Who funds SOAR CAREER SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds DULUTH CENTER OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds CHESTER BOWL IMPROVEMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH ↗
- Who funds IRON RANGE PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABILITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE HILLS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Mardag Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · Second Harvest Northland · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · St Mary's Medical Center
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 Smdc Medical Center 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.