· Public charity
The Hormel Foundation
Is operated for the benefit of, and to assist in performing the functions and in carrying out the purpose of the Supported Organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $714k
- $250k+8 grants · $36M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Minnesota-The Hormel Institute | $22,611,300 |
| Austin Community Charitable Fund | $5,380,000 |
| Riverland Community College | $4,044,739 |
| Austin Public Schools | $1,486,193 |
| United Way of Mower County | $1,247,893 |
| City of Austin | $942,694 |
| YMCA of Austin | $296,131 |
| The Salvation Army | $290,000 |
| Cedar Valley Services | $236,336 |
| Parenting Resource Center | $225,000 |
| Austin Community Growth Ventures | $130,000 |
| Mayo Clinic Health Systems-Austin campus | $122,819 |
| Austin Community Scholarship Committee | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
- UWUNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7.2M · revenue +9% · 85% of their budget
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN MINNESOTA6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +23%
- CVCEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +76%
Funded once
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.
Austin community education fund was created to provide scholarships to residents of austin, minnesota and the surrounding area through the austin area chamber of commerce.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Support and strengthen austin public libraries
Austin area arts applauds and advances all arts by welcoming diverse, creative individuals to share their unique talents to inspire our community.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Fostering conservation and reuse through creativity, education, and community building.
To support the production and exhibition of art and film
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
We mobilize ideas and resources to strengthen central texas.
To promote the economic, civil, industrial and cultural growth of austin, minnesota and the surrounding area.
To aggressively support new or existing industrial and other commercial enterprises for the economic betterment of austin and mower county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Community Charitable Fund and the most unlike its peers is Austin Community Growth Ventures. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 AUSTIN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY GROWTH VENTURES ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Mayo Clinic Group Return · Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · United Way of Mower County Inc · C K Blandin Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hormel 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.
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