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The Crosswols 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k72 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WASHBURN CENTER | $5,000 |
| MINNESOTA LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING | $2,500 |
| HENRY FERGUSON MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| MINNESOTA DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE RUSSIAN ARTS | $2,000 |
| STEGER WILDERNESS CENTER | $2,000 |
| MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| CARINGBRIDGE | $2,000 |
| FRESH ENERGY | $1,600 |
| CITIZENS LEAGUE | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% 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.
104 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TMThe Minnesota Opera3× · 2017–2020 · $120k · revenue +18%
- MZMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +263%
FRESH ENERGY9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- TCTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +37%
- MOMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +64%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +94%
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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
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…
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
The minnesota state fair foundation's mission is to preserve and improve the historic minnesota state fairgrounds and support state fair programs and projects in agriculture, arts & culture, education, the environment, and history.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Cameron and Hayden Lord 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 42 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 140 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 The Minnesota Opera ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
- Who funds THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Middleton Place Foundation ↗
- Who funds Henry L Ferguson Museum ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
- Who funds MILKWEED EDITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds Minneapolis Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MINNESOTA ↗
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: Longview Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · James T Nystrom Foundation · Pohlad Family 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 Crosswols 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.
- South Africa Partners Inc — 42% 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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