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Tcmk Foundation at a glance

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Tcmk 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$258kHuman Services$80kRecreation & Sports$25kEducation$11kHousing & Shelter$8kHealth$3kEnvironment$3kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$531k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS$30,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER: $2k → 8%INTERFAITH OUTREACH &: $86k → 11%CHLOES COURAGE FUND: $1k → 11%TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 14%FRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOG: $3k → 15%UNICEF: $2k → 14%PARKINSONS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%INTERFAITH OUTREACH &: $60k → 11%TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3k → 14%INTERFAITH OUTREACH &: $51k → 11%INTERFAITH OUTREACH &: $46k → 11%INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $30k → 11%INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $30k → 11%INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20k → 11%INTERFAITH OUTREACH &: $15k → 11%MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$381k · 5 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$381k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+64%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IO
    INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +26%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2022 · $11k · revenue +87%
  • TC
    TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    2× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOGgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +107%
  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +41%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +64%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
4
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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6
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
7
Northland Foundation

The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.

Philanthropy
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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11
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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12
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Chloes Courage Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERFAITH OUTREACH &: $258,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH &INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $80,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSBEE SQUAD UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $25,000 · OtherBEE SQUAD UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA+1 more: $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,510 · EducationFRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOG: $2,500 · EducationCHLOES COURAGE FUND: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER: $2,100 · AnimalsUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 · InternationalMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$370,500Education$13,010Health$3,000Animals$2,100International$2,000Arts & Culture$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,510 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAX-ZIM BOG: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER: $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHLOES COURAGE FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tcmk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tcmk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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