· Private foundation
The Eagle Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k67 grants · $304k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $495k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN VENTURES | $300,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA TEEN CHALLENGE | $150,000 |
| CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY-ST PAUL | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL | $67,500 |
| BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY | $65,000 |
| BETHEL UNIVERSITY | $62,500 |
| MINNESOTA TEEN CHALLENGE | $50,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $22,500 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $21,967 |
| NORTH HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $17,722 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON | $15,000 |
| BOB JONES UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| 4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $15,000 |
| FAITH BAPTIST BIBLE COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +22% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
162 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 91 since wound down; 28 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k 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
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL8× · 2017–2024 · $845k · revenue +75%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL8× · 2017–2024 · $598k · revenue +32%
- MTMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $267k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- 4K4 KIDS CORPone grant, 2021 · $200k
- JMJOSH MCDOWELL MINISTRYone grant, 2019 · $150k
- SWSOUTH WEST TWIN CITIES YOUNG LIFEone grant, 2019 · $121k
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.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Baptist University and the most unlike its peers is Rising Hope 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 73 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 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 279 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds PULSE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds North Central University ↗
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: Folds of Honor Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Ibm International Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · La Amundson Ohana Foundation · Communitygiving · Tulsa Community Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Council of Independent Colleges · Marguerite V Brown · Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr
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 Eagle 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.
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Pensacola Christian College Inc — 0% 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.