· Public charity
St Mary's Medical Center
Throughout essentia health, 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DULUTH GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COUNCIL INC | $2,435,004 |
| ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,023,133 |
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 (FY17–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 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
- DGDULUTH GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +34% · 29% of their budget
- EHESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +105%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC3× · 2018–2023 · $69k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- EEElevating Education MNone grant, 2022 · $100k · 39% of their budget
- AIAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +38%
- GHGENERATIONS HEALTH CARE INITIATIVES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +32%
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.
Duluth community school collaborative promotes wellbeing and success for duluth public schools students and families by co-creating, celebrating, and mobilizing for equitable educational experiences.
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.
We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.
Mission: Fairview is driven to heal, discover and educate for longer, healthier lives. Vision: Fairview is driving a healthier future. Values: Dignity: We value the uniqueness of each person and work to ensure everyone's right to privacy.…
Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.
Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.
Our mission is to promote health equity, civic engagement and economic empowerment. We serve as a catalyst for change, dedicated to improving the quality of life in underrepresented communities.
Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.
The minnesota community health worker alliance builds community and systems capacity for better health through the integration of community health worker (chw) strategies. our vision is equitable and optimal outcomes for all communities.…
Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Duluth Area Family Ymca and the most unlike its peers is Fathers Rise Together Inc Family Rise Together Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 DULUTH GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Elevating Education MN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS HEALTH CARE INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ECOLIBRIUM3 ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds DULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN EXPRESSIONS ARTS COLLECTIVE ↗
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: Smdc Medical Center · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Northland Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pachel Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Mardag Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis 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 St Mary's 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.