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Thaler Family 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 $10k26 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAVID M THALER SPORTS CENTER | $60,000 |
| INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT #277 | $23,000 |
| HAROLD J POND SPORTS CENTER | $20,000 |
| ADATH JESHURUN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WESTONKA DISTRICT 277 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WE CAN COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| WESTONKA FOOD SHELF | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA | $5,000 |
| THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $2,600 |
| FRIENDS OF MOUND WESTONKA HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON | $2,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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; $4k 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
- WDWESTONKA DISTRICT 277 FOUNDATION CORP CHARTER NO 1N 8626× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +269% · 57% of their budget
- WCWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +130%
- CDCAN DO CANINES6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- TATHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMOREone grant, 2022 · $3k
- MWMOUND WESTONKA HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +76%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +36%
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.
Advocating change together's (act) mission is to advance "self advocacy" which, as its name suggests, engages people with developmental disabilities to be in charge of their own decisions and to speak for themselves. act describes…
The mission of the minnesota public health association (mpha) is to create a healthier minnesota through effective public health practice and engaged citizens. our vision is to be an active, independent voice for public health in minnesota.
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
To advance and disseminate the science and practice of hepatology, and to promote liver health and quality patient care.
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Interfaith alliance is a growing network of people of diverse faiths and beliefs across the country working together to build a resilient democracy and fulfill america's promise of religious freedom and civil rights not just for some, but…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Lgbtq Task Force and the most unlike its peers is Tonkabots Booster Club. 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 38 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 WESTONKA DISTRICT 277 FOUNDATION CORP CHARTER NO 1N 862 ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds Lake Minnetonka Association ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds CHOICE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOUND WESTONKA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Tonkabots Booster Club ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Thaler 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.
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% 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.
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