· Private foundation
Tankenoff Families Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $231k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $527k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $175,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MN | $77,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL | $75,000 |
| SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK | $50,000 |
| OPEN BOOK | $50,000 |
| HERZL CAMP | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SABES JCC OF MINNEAPOLIS | $20,000 |
| MINNESOTA HILLEL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MINNPOST | $16,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $15,700 |
| NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS ARTS ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| MINNESOTA ACTS NOW | $15,000 |
| PRAIRIECARE FUND | $14,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 10 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS6× · 2020–2025 · $460k · revenue +266%
- HCHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +102%
- MMinnPost6× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CYCHABAD YOUNG PROFESSIONALSone grant, 2023 · $15k
- UFUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISMone grant, 2023 · $5k
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +42%
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
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…
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
The minnesota jcc is dedicated to strengthening our community by providing inclusive programs that inspire personal growth, foster connection, and promote well-being through arts, culture, education, fitness, early childhood, day camp and…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is Prairiecare Fund. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 132 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 MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MinnPost ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds LAND BANK TWIN CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS ARTS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds Open Book ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIECARE FUND ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ACTS NOW ↗
- Who funds Sojourner Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWFOLK MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERACT CENTER FOR THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES TOO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main · Russell T Lund Charitable Trust
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 Tankenoff Families 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.
- Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.