How much did ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Philanthropy$35MHuman Services$3.0MHealth$2.6MEducation$1.3MEnvironment$836kArts & Culture$681kRecreation & Sports$606kCrime & Legal$225kFood & Nutrition$187kOther$6.8M

02beneath 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

2019

see part

2020

covid responserestorativetortureandrew'sliberalfood shelfdomestic violence

2021

strategicincomeprivatehabitat humanityleadroleppm

2022

powerskatingpatientcaregiverwonderlandroomspring

2023

musicalstaffing cimarronhealth counselinghockeyneedy personsfood pantrybackpack

2024

healthcare scholarshipsmindspooleducational programmingbanddonor distributiondonations

2025

youngchildren successdistrictgive maxchildren'spickleballprogramming

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k39 grants · $292k
$10k–50k61 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k5 grants · $538k
$250k+1 grant · $35M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$125M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$35,000,000
LAKEVIEW MEMORIAL HOSPICE PROGRAM$160,257
ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION$160,257
WILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY OF THE ST CROIX AND NAMEKAGON$103,468
YMCA HUDSON$63,274
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTH CENTRAL STATES$50,500
FIVE LOAVES FOOD AND CLOTHING$45,813
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ST CROIX VALLEY$42,236
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$42,170
FAMILYMEANS$33,197
CARPENTER ST CROIX VALLEY NATURE CENTER$31,300
REACH OUT AND READ MINNESOTA$30,000
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN$30,000
PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH$30,000
LAKEVIEW HOSPITAL$30,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$14M · 133 repeat orgs$37M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

133 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

133

105

Total granted

$14M

$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+29%

Still filing today

65%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

AH
AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2025 · $854k · revenue +73%
WR
WILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY OF THE ST CROIX AND NAMEKAGON
8× · 2018–2025 · $734k · revenue +79%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS
2× · 2020–2021 · $620k · revenue +31%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF PERCH LAKE
one grant, 2022 · $108k
FO
FRIENDS OF KMMA-CAITHS
one grant, 2023 · $105k · revenue -4% · 56% of their budget
AB
ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +118%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

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

Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Business Partnership

To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.

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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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Planned Parenthood Minnesota North

Support planned parenthood minnesota, north dakota, south dakota.

Human Services

Trinity Health

Meeting the needs of the whole person through quality health care and health-related services.

Health

West Central Minnesota Communities

Empowering people while providing services and resources that impact individuals and communities.

Community Improvement

Horizon Home Care & Hospice Inc

Horizon home care & hospice, inc. will optimize health and quality of life for patients and families in the home and other settings. our clinical experience, relationship centered care, and respect for patient rights set us apart as the…

Health

Great Plains Food Bank

The Great Plains Food Bank is North Dakota's largest hunger-relief organization with a mission to end hunger through community partnerships. Our vision is a hunger-free North Dakota and western Minnesota. Both our mission and vision are…

Food & Nutrition

Siouxland Human Investment Partnership

To provide leadership in response to identified community needs and collaboratively supports the delivery of health, human services, education, and public safety in siouxland.

Human Services

Central Minnesota Mental Health Center

Fostering healthy lives and thriving communities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amherst H Wilder Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Young Life. 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

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%1/263

the rest of the field

12%

1,835/15,888

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.

05the grantee network

186 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

181/186

Grantees still filing

142/186

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$35,359,048Other$7,865,767Human Services$3,037,552Health$2,563,472Education$1,269,627Environment$836,384Arts & Culture$680,772

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.

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.

Fred C and Katherine B Andersen FoundationMN110.8× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Allina Health System · The American Center for Philanthropy · Hrk Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Catholic Community 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 organisation ST CROIX VALLEY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AFTON ALPS ALPINE CLUB.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 411681799 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on AFTON ALPS ALPINE CLUB, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 61% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to St Croix Valley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to St Croix Valley Foundation 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.

ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

186 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to St Croix Valley Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

186 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to St Croix Valley Foundation?

More from the funding graph