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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE GOSTOMSKI FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| LUNDSTROM PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE | $10,000 |
| POLISH MUSEUM OF AMERICA | $7,465 |
| WINONA ORC INDUSTRIES | $6,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +1%- CSCOTTER SCHOOLS7× · 2017–2024 · $584k · revenue ×17
- VUVITERBO UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- WFWINONA FAMILY YMCA INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +17%
- YBYMCA BUILDING FUNDone grant, 2018 · $50k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES SPIRIT CTR - DIOCESE OF WINONAone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
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.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
To increase the financial well-being of wisconsin native american families and communities.
Wartburg college is dedicated to challenging and nurturing students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning.
The minnesota home ownership center promotes and advances successful home ownership in minnesota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winona Volunteer Services Inc and 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.
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 44 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 71 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 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 ST ELIZABETHS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
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: 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
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 Gostomski 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.
- Food for the Poor 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.
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