· Private foundation
Squam Lake 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
- $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $150,000 |
| MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC | $37,000 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $30,000 |
| THE BASILICA OF ST MARYST VINCENT DE PAUL MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $20,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION TWIN CITIES | $20,000 |
| BANYAN COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC | $18,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $15,000 |
| TUBMAN | $15,000 |
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, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC6× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +37%
- IOINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS9× · 2017–2025 · $159k · revenue +55%
- SASHARING AND CARING HANDS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $93k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLISone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -12%
- TBTHE BASILICA OF SAINT MARYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SVSAINT VINCENT DE PAUL-TWIN CITIESone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
The mission of mental health resources is to foster hope, health and recovery for people affected by mental illness and substance use disorder.
Minnesota assistance council for veterans (macv) is dedicated to a mission to end veteran homelessness in minnesota. macv provides services to veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness throughout minnesota in areas of housing,…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
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…
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…
Our mission is empowering people as they age.
Crime and communities violence interve
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Madeline Island Chamber Music co Taft Stettinius & Hollister Llp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Madeline Island Chamber Music co Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIA ↗
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 · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Squam Lake 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.
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.