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The James R Thorpe Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$342k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$158kYouth Development$79kArts & Culture$66kFood & Nutrition$62kHousing & Shelter$55kHealth$48kCrime & Legal$38kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC$25,000
ALIVE & KICKIN$17,500
REBUILDING TOGETHER TWIN CITIES$16,500
SOUTHEAST SENIORS$16,000
MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER$15,000
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA$15,000
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$15,000
CREATEMPLS$15,000
NOKOMIS HEALTHY SENIORS$15,000
HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT$15,000
ILLUSION THEATER AND SCHOOL INC$14,000
LONGFELLOWSEWARD HEALTHY SENIORS$14,000
MOVEFWD$12,500
HELP AT YOUR DOOR$12,500
KAIROS ALIVE$12,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOJOUNER PROJECT: $1k → 11%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $25k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $10k → 11%MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER: $15k → 11%LONGFELLOWSEWARD HEALTHY SENIORS: $14k → 11%SPARK YOUTH: $10k → 11%AGE WELL AT HOME: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$332k · 14 repeat orgs$227k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

$332k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+59%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CE
    COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +10%
  • LH
    LongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program
    2× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +37%
  • SC
    SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES
    2× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • NH
    Nokomis Healthy Seniors
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • CS
    CENTER SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -21%
  • KJ
    KA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +141%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
2
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
3
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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4
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
5
Walker Adult Day Services

Walker Adult Day Services promotes healthy aging with the focus to improve and enhance overall wellness. Through a system of supportive services in one location the program conveniently assists people experiencing isolation due to physical…

Human Services
6
Community Neighborhood Housing Services

Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…

Housing & Shelter
7
Family Pathways

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.

Human Services
8
Living At Home Block Nurse Program Inc

The Living at Home Network is a resource hub and advocate, an advisor on operations, and a connector among all members. Each year Minnesotans continue to live independently at home with the help of 32 non-profit, community-held programs.

Human Services
9
Care in Action Minnesota

Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…

Human Services
10
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
11
Mad Dads of Minneapolis

MAD DADS serves the community with integrity and dedication by providing safety, positive youth programming, and job creation.

Human Services
12
Living Well Disability Services

Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movefwd Inc and the most unlike its peers is Highpoint Center for Printmaking. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports LeaguesCommunity Support ServicesCommunity Service Foundatio…Immigrant Community Develop…Youth Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr14%38%35–55yr13%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr18%40%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr13%12%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/38
the rest of the field
16%
1,428/9,121

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INCLongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program — $28,500 · Human ServicesLongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Prog…SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $28,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICESMINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER — $22,500 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTERCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $18,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO TYRONE GUZMANSpark Youth — $18,000 · Human ServicesSpark YouthCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesAFRICAN IMMIGRANTS COMMUNITY SERVIC — $7,500 · Human Services+3 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesHELP AT YOUR DOOR — $22,500 · OtherHELP AT YOUR DOORNOKOMIS HEALTHY SENIORS — $15,000 · OtherNOKOMIS HEALTHY SENIORSDream of Wild Health — $13,500 · OtherDream of Wild HealthNokomis Healthy Seniors — $12,000 · OtherNokomis Healthy SeniorsLA OPORTUNIDAD INC — $10,000 · OtherLA OPORTUNIDAD INCSTART SENIOR SOLUTIONS — $8,500 · OtherSTART SENIOR SOLUTIONSKA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION — $8,000 · OtherKA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIO…OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherOPEN HANDS FOUNDATIONTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATIONSoutheast Seniors A living at homeblock nurse program — $16,000 · OtherSoutheast Seniors A living at…DINOMIGHTS — $15,000 · OtherDINOMIGHTS+2 more — $7,000 · OtherAlive & Kickin — $17,500 · Arts & CultureAlive & Kicki…COMPAS INC — $16,500 · Arts & CultureCOMPAS INCIllusion Theater and School Inc — $14,000 · Arts & CultureIllusion Thea…KAIROS ALIVE — $12,000 · Arts & CultureKAIROS ALIVEHighpoint Center for Printmaking — $6,000 · Arts & CultureHighpoint Cen…HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOSPITALIT…CREATEMPLS — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCREATEMPLSThe Cookie Cart — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Cookie…MOVEFWD INC — $22,500 · EducationCENTER SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · EducationFAITH COMMUNITY NURSE NETWORK OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $5,000 · Education826 MSP — $5,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $30,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVIC ES INC — $7,500 · Crime & LegalRebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $24,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $7,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$190,000Other$147,500Arts & Culture$66,000Youth Development$52,500Education$42,500Crime & Legal$37,500Housing & Shelter$32,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program — $28,500 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $28,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $27,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $24,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHELP AT YOUR DOOR — $22,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMOVEFWD INC — $22,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER — $22,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPAS INC — $16,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSoutheast Seniors A living at homeblock nurse program — $16,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDINOMIGHTS — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIllusion Theater and School Inc — $14,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDream of Wild Health — $13,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKAIROS ALIVE — $12,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Cookie Cart — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLA OPORTUNIDAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION — $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAFRICAN IMMIGRANTS COMMUNITY SERVIC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVIC ES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHighpoint Center for Printmaking — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAITH COMMUNITY NURSE NETWORK OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget826 MSP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGE WELL AT HOME — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Stevens Square Founda…YouthpriseGreater Twin Cities U…Target FoundationXcel Energy FoundationMortenson Family Foun…Fr Bigelow Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN57× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Stevens Square Foundation · Youthprise · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Target Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow 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 James R Thorpe 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The James R Thorpe Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The James R Thorpe 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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