· Private foundation
Stevens Square Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $635k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS & CO | $30,000 |
| CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN | $30,000 |
| TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH | $30,000 |
| MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID | $26,000 |
| PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES | $26,000 |
| HELP AT YOUR DOOR | $25,500 |
| DARTS | $25,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAINT PAUL | $25,500 |
| CAPI USA | $25,500 |
| THE OPEN DOOR | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA-MINNESOTAWISCONSIN | $25,000 |
| OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA | $25,000 |
| FAMILYMEANS | $25,000 |
| SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 84% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- DDARTS6× · 2019–2025 · $152k · revenue +41%
- KCKeystone Community Services5× · 2019–2024 · $139k · revenue +127%
- FFAMILYMEANS5× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- AWAGE WELL AT HOMEone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -68%
- TCTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +33%
- AAEONone grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +24%
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.
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…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…
Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.
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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The central minnesota council on aging is committed to maintaining the highest level of independence with older people by developing and coordinating community care, reducing isolation and improving access to services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Lao Advancement Organization of America. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 79 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 DARTS ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAPI USA ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program ↗
- Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds HELP AT YOUR DOOR ↗
- Who funds SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds LAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Friends & Co ↗
- Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Conflict Resolution Center ↗
- Who funds Minneapolis American Indian Center ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds SEWA-AIFW ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR ↗
- Who funds VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Anoka Community Assistance ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ELDER VOICE ADVOCATES ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Pohlad Family 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 Stevens Square 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.