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Sundance Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k15 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $811k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| RAMSEY COUNTY | $50,000 |
| SOFTEC EDUCATION | $47,500 |
| BRIDGEMAKERS FA PROPEL NONPROFITS | $40,000 |
| DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | $35,000 |
| MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF MN | $35,000 |
| MN INDEPENDENCE COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| URBAN STRATEGIES | $30,000 |
| SPARK-Y | $30,000 |
| TGTHR | $25,000 |
| SUMMIT ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| EMILY GRIFFITH TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| SAINT PAUL COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| NAMI MINNESOTA | $25,000 |
| ALL SQUARE | $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 (FY19–23, $562k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +53% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k 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
URBAN STRATEGIES INC5× · 2019–2023 · $139k · revenue +170%- EEElpis Enterprises5× · 2019–2023 · $125k · revenue +95%
- WEWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS4× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2.2M
- RCRAMSEY COUNTY PUBLIC SECTOR LEADERSHIP ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $30k
- AFAVENUES FOR YOUTHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +107%
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.
Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.
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.
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
World Youth Connect builds communities across cultures and beyond borders. By creating and encouraging civic engagement opportunities we help young people gain the skills and experience they need to be successful. World Youth Connect…
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…
Through service, Minnesota Alliance With Youth develops leaders who foster young people's individual assets, honor their voices, and prepare them to reach their goals.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
VEAP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, multi-service, human service organization with the mission of "Together, we create pathways to stronger, more hopeful, communities through access to healthy food, housing stability and supportive services."
Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.
Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hired and the most unlike its peers is Parker Task Force for Human Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 114 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 SOFTEC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds Elpis Enterprises ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds URBAN ROOTS MN ↗
- Who funds ALL SQUARE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWGATE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Wildflyer Coffee ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Spark Youth ↗
- Who funds New Vision Foundation ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc ↗
- Who funds 30000 Feet ↗
- Who funds HIRED ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL URBAN TENNIS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds Dream of Wild Health ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHANGE STARTS WITH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds NAMI MINNESOTA ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Youthprise · The McKnight Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Target Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Xcel Energy 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 Sundance Family 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.
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