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The Alice & Fred Wall 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.

$220k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$222kEducation$187kHuman Services$171kInternational$50kFood & Nutrition$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kHousing & Shelter$24kEnvironment$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $183k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$26,000
EVERY MEAL$25,000
TOGETHER FOR GOOD$25,000
SOURCE MN INC$25,000
BLACK MEN TEACH$25,000
HOPE ACADEMY$22,000
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY$20,000
ACCESSABILITY INC$15,000
K9S FOR WARRIORS$6,500
COVENANT HOUSE$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$3,000
STEIGER MINISTRIES$2,500
OCEANA$2,000
MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$2,000
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAFE HORIZON: $1k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%EMPOWER SPORTS: $3k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $25k → 14%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $25k → 14%MAN UP CLUB: $5k → 14%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$570k · 30 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
28

Total granted

$570k
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+14%

Still filing today

70%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • HA
    HOPE ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +240%
  • GM
    GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • TF
    TOGETHER FOR GOOD
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • MP
    MINNEAPOLIS POLICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +62% · 26% of their budget
  • SP
    SAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
2
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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3
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
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
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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6
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
7
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
8
Reach for Resources Inc

Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.

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9
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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10
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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11
South Metro Human Services

Radias health is a non-profit mental health & substance use disorders services organization customizing community based services through the integration of knowledge, compassion, and collaboration. we are committed to being an inclusive,…

Human Services
12
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Man Up Club. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Food Banks and PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Construc…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Social ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Lgbtq+ Community SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsSenior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%2%<5yr12%8%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr16%35%35–55yr18%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%9%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr18%31%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,938

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.

04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
35/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION — $61,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONSOURCE MN INC — $45,000 · OtherSOURCE MN INCSALVATION ARMY — $20,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA — $10,000 · OtherTHE RETREAT — $10,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherOCEANA INC — $11,500 · OtherACCESSABILITY INC — $15,000 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS POLICE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $11,375 · Other+28 more — $83,575 · Other+28 moreGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $50,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CR…TOGETHER FOR GOOD — $50,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER FOR GOODBlack Men Teach — $40,000 · Human ServicesBlack Men TeachPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN L…+6 more — $18,500 · Human Services+6 moreMAYO CLINIC — $90,250 · HealthMAYO CLINICSIMPSON HOUSE INC — $50,000 · HealthSIMPSON HOUSE INCMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $9,365 · HealthMinnesota Teen Chall…+5 more — $5,375 · HealthHOPE ACADEMY INC — $95,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INCSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $50,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OICEVERY MEAL — $25,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $4,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $2,000 · Food & NutritionCompassion International Incorporated — $11,805 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $7,285 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST — $4,250 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINE — $3,625 · InternationalREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $18,795 · Religion
Other$297,450Human Services$168,500Health$154,990Education$145,000Food & Nutrition$31,500International$27,965Religion$18,795

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC — $95,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $90,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTOGETHER FOR GOOD — $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOURCE MN INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBlack Men Teach — $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEVERY MEAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $18,795 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACCESSABILITY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS POLICE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetOCEANA INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $11,375 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $9,365 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWE PUSH FOR PEACE — $7,500 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $7,285 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $5,459 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAN UP CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC — $4,625 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE — $3,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $3,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $2,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER SPORTS CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS HELPING HOMELESS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFeeding America — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTWLOHA INC — $1,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREEF CHECK FOUNDATION — $1,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPADI AWARE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEREBINTH REFUGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILE IN MY SHOES — $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAN DO CANINES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…CommunitygivingThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…
Xcel Energy FoundationMN16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Communitygiving · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 The Alice & Fred Wall 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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