· Private foundation
The Arrow Giving 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASHBY LEGACY FUND | $123,112 |
| FOUNDATION X | $35,000 |
| HOPE 4 YOUTH | $15,691 |
| TB1FUND | $13,575 |
| FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING | $12,874 |
| WELLSTONE INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,506 |
| FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD | $10,400 |
| HEARTLAND TIRE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| THE JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| MARANTHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| THE DRAWER | $1,000 |
| 180 DEGREES | $1,000 |
| ALEXANDRA HOUSE | $1,000 |
| M HEALTH FAIRVIEW FOUNDATION | $530 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $511 |
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 (FY19–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- FXFOUNDATION X2× · 2021–2024 · $143k · revenue +109% · 52% of their budget
- FFFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING4× · 2021–2024 · $83k · revenue +10%
- H4HOPE 4 Youth4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +270%
Funded once
- AHANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +167%
- FFFastbreak Foundationone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -86%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through 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…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanneh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Nash Avery Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 72 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 ASHBY LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION X ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD ↗
- Who funds TB1 FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Fastbreak Foundation ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds The Drawer ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE ↗
- Who funds THE NASH AVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Minneapolis Recreation Development Inc Love One Another ↗
- Who funds 180 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds Chanhassen Football Gridiron Club ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Bame Foundation · Hardenbergh 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 The Arrow Giving 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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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