· Private foundation
Surefire Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPASSION CHILD CARE | $85,000 |
| PEQUOT LAKES BABTIST CHURCH | $65,500 |
| TURNING POINT | $32,250 |
| ST FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL | $28,748 |
| HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHURCH | $20,000 |
| GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH | $11,500 |
| VITERBO UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| 2ND CHANCE YOUTH RANCH | $10,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| FOR THE LOVE OF 4 PAWS | $6,000 |
| LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF | $5,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $5,000 |
| SALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $692k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 5 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOMPASSION CHILD CARE6× · 2020–2025 · $677k · revenue +55%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +13%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +106%
- TPTurning Point for Godone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +57%
- GCGillette Children's Hospital Foundationone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -22%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.
Trinity health foundation secures charitable gifts and volunteer resources to support trinity's mission "to provide quality patient care and improve the health of the people and communities we serve."
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
The mission of the Winona Health Foundation is to gather, steward, and distribute resources needed to support and advance the mission of Winona Health and its affiliates.
We, genesis health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
We, genesis health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…
We, mercy hospital of franciscan sisters and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy hospital of franciscan sisters is a member of…
Our mission is to provide financial resources and act in the best interests of the Good Samaritan Hospital Association with regard to both short-term and long-range needs, including but not limited to the purchase of new equipment and…
The mission of advocate health care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.
The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMPASSION CHILD CARE ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds 2nd Chance Youth Ranch ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOR THE LOVE OF 4 PAWS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Turning Point for God ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds RISING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTER CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communitygiving · The Minneapolis Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Surefire Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Surefire Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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