· Private foundation
Ciresi Walburn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+1 grant · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $515,000 |
| SERVE MINNESOTA | $150,000 |
| WAY TO GROW | $135,000 |
| SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC | $100,000 |
| NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| ED ALLIES | $100,000 |
| MIGIZI | $75,000 |
| ASCENSION CHURCH AND SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| PRODEO ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | $75,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| GLOBAL ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| GREATER MN SCHOOLS | $60,000 |
| ST PAUL PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD CO AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k 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
- UOUniversity of St Thomas3× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +17%
- WTWAY TO GROW7× · 2019–2025 · $945k · revenue +0%
- EAEd Allies7× · 2019–2025 · $850k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- MCMINNESOTA COMEBACKone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue 0%
- HAHIAWATHA ACADEMIESone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +20%
- HPHOPKINS PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY EDUCATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
By tapping the intrinsic motivation and curiosity of every child, we deliver higher than usual growth.
To prepare scholars to build character and accept of the value of various cultures
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.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
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…
To prepare children to embrace life, learning, and community with hope, skill, understanding and creativity. we are committed to the quaker values of peace, justice, simplicity and integrity.
Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
We provide accelerated curricula in all subjects with an emphasis on math and science.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Mn Schools and the most unlike its peers is One2One. 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 25 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 70 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 MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
- Who funds Ed Allies ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Parent Union ↗
- Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Think Small ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ACADEMY OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CLOSE GAPS BY 5 ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA COMEBACK ↗
- Who funds HIAWATHA ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPAS 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 · The Sauer Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Wem Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · John and Denise Graves 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 Ciresi Walburn 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.
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.