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The Gostomski Foundation at a glance

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The Gostomski 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.

$500k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$118k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.8MReligion$496kHuman Services$460kArts & Culture$238kPhilanthropy$219kHousing & Shelter$146kRecreation & Sports$132kEnvironment$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $295k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$117,772
DE LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL$65,000
COTTER HIGH SCHOOL$62,000
VITERBO UNIVERSITY$50,000
FRANCISCAN FRIARS$35,000
Individual grant recipient$26,600
MINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL$20,000
MORRIE MILLER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$20,000
THE BASILICA OF ST STANISLAUS KOSTKA$15,938
BENILDE ST MARGARETS HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES$10,000
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE$10,000
LUNDSTROM PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
POLISH MUSEUM OF AMERICA$7,465
WINONA ORC INDUSTRIES$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRADLE OF HOPE INC: $10k → 7%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%BIRTHRIGHT: $700 → 15%CRADLE OF HOPE INC: $3k → 7%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $4k → 11%FAMILY & CHILDRENS CENTER: $20k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN CENTER: $20k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN CENTER: $15k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $15k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN CENTER: $10k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA: $25k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICE: $10k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $10k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICE: $10k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $10k → 14%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
PA
CT
MO
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 37 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
24

Total granted

$5.2M
$449k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+22%

Still filing today

54%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +1%
  • CS
    COTTER SCHOOLS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $584k · revenue ×17
  • VU
    VITERBO UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • WF
    WINONA FAMILY YMCA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +17%
  • YB
    YMCA BUILDING FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +22%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area

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2
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
3
Winona Health Foundation

The mission of the Winona Health Foundation is to gather, steward, and distribute resources needed to support and advance the mission of Winona Health and its affiliates.

Health
4
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
5
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
6
Watertown Lutheran Senior Housing Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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7
Marian University Inc

Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…

Education
8
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

—
9
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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10
Wisconsin Native Loan Fund Inc

To increase the financial well-being of wisconsin native american families and communities.

Housing & Shelter
11
Wartburg College

Wartburg college is dedicated to challenging and nurturing students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning.

Education
12
Minnesota Home Ownership Center

The minnesota home ownership center promotes and advances successful home ownership in minnesota.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winona Volunteer Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Marys University of Minnesota. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COTTER SCHOOLS: $584,100 · OtherCOTTER SCHOOLSDE LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL: $436,800 · OtherDE LASALLE HIGH SCHOOLFRANCISCAN FRIARS: $254,000 · OtherFRANCISCAN FRIARSUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FAL: $199,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALTHE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS OF THE MIDWEST INC: $140,000 · OtherTHE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS OF THE MIDWEST INCWINONA FAMILY YMCA INC: $100,000 · Other+41 more: $785,298 · Other+41 moreST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1,922,557 · EducationST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAVITERBO UNIVERSITY: $350,000 · EducationVITERBO UNIVERSITY+2 more: $14,500 · EducationWISLIM FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyWISLIM FO…WINONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $165,000 · PhilanthropyWINONA CO…MORRIE MILLER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $115,000 · PhilanthropyMORRIE MI…ST ELIZABETHS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyMINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM: $95,000 · Arts & CulturePOLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE: $41,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePolish Museum of America: $12,465 · Arts & CultureFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesWINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesCradle of Hope Inc: $13,000 · Human Services+3 more: $9,200 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE INC: $83,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE HARBOR: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterEAGLE BLUFF ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $60,000 · Environment
Other$2,499,698Education$2,287,057Philanthropy$512,500Arts & Culture$188,465Human Services$185,200Housing & Shelter$93,000Environment$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1,922,557 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCOTTER SCHOOLS: $584,100 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetVITERBO UNIVERSITY: $350,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWISLIM FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetWINONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMORRIE MILLER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetWINONA FAMILY YMCA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM: $95,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE PLACE INC: $83,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetEAGLE BLUFF ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC: $48,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPOLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE: $41,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST ELIZABETHS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINONA ORC INDUSTRIES INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCradle of Hope Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSOLDIER STRONG INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPolish Museum of America: $12,465 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetHOPE HARBOR: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE OSCAR MIKE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShingle Creek Victory Council: $5,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL: $4,275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYZATA BOOSTER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT: $700 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds COTTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WISLIM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WINONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MORRIE MILLER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WINONA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE BLUFF ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds ST ELIZABETHS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Slaggie Family Founda…Winona Community Foun…Otto Bremer TrustXcel Energy FoundationDare Lamberton White …Saint Paul & Minnesot…Winona Foundation TheElizabeth Callender K…Dahl Family Foundatio…Rukavina Family Found…Southeastern Minnesot…Celanese Foundation
Slaggie Family FoundationMN34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Slaggie Family Foundation · Winona Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Dare Lamberton White & William F White Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Winona Foundation The · Elizabeth Callender King Foundation · Dahl Family Foundation Xxxxxx6214 · Rukavina Family Foundation · Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc · Celanese Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gostomski Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gostomski Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Gostomski Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gostomski Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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