· Private foundation
The Coss 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $587 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE SHELF | $587 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $587 |
| SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK | $587 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION | $587 |
| SAINT THOMAS ACADEMY | $587 |
| PEPIN COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $587 |
| CHILDRENS THEATRE COMPANY | $587 |
| BULLIS SCHOOL | $587 |
| HERBERGER THEATRE | $586 |
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 (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% 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 +58% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 30% 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
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +220%
- RFRiver Falls Community Food Pantry7× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +77%
- LHLISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +663%
Funded once
- SCST CROIX COUNTY SHERIFFone grant, 2017 · $7k
- WOWOMEN OF NATIONS SHELTERone grant, 2020 · $500
- RARED APPLE CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +25%
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.
Our mission is to bring in donated pet food and pet supplies and hand them out to other nonprofits including: animal rescues, animal sanctuaries, other animal efforts, and food shelves. We take in donations from all over the USA and unload…
Provide emergency food relief for the families in the Lonsdale MN region .
End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.
Provide food for hungry individuals in martin county, mn
Community emergency service (ces) is one of the largest food distribution nonprofits serving one of the poorest communities in the twin cities. our mission is to turn hunger into hope through three principal programs: (i) food market, (ii)…
Noahs Hope Animal Rescue accepts unwanted and street animals; restores health and then places the animals in homes around the metro Siouxland area.
The North Scott Food Pantry provides food for people in need. Clients receive enough food for about one week and are allowed to get food every 28 days. There were 721 visits to our food pantry in 2025.
Receive and dispense food to needy clients
Serve fresh and frozen meals to seniors, disabled and homebound individuals in central MN. Over 60,000 meals served annually to over 400 individuals.
The mission of a touch of the fathers love food pantry and ministry is to: ~alleviate food insecurity in the twin counties area through the distribution of healthy and nutritious food while instilling hope. ~treat all staff, partner…
Our Mission: To improve the quality of life for companion animals. We are dedicated to accomplishing our mission by: Aiding in the return of lost or stolen companion animals to their rightful owners, and securing suitable homes for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Listening House of St Paul Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Theatre Company and School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 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 UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds River Falls Community Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds No Dog Left Behind ↗
- Who funds LAST HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Dunn County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds OUR NEIGHBORS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PEPIN COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds LUCKY PAWS MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FALLS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BULLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RED APPLE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CANNON FALLS FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FALLS SUNSHINE FUND 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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Otto Bremer Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Coss 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.