· Private foundation
The John Gale Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION | $140,125 |
| GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC | $65,125 |
| FUTURE URBAN LEADERS | $60,000 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC | $12,730 |
| MABEL TAINTER LITERARY LIBRARY & EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY INC DBA MABEL THEATER | $12,730 |
| STEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INC | $12,730 |
| GREEN AMERICA | $12,730 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA | $12,730 |
| LANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC | $12,730 |
| WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC | $12,730 |
| THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC | $12,730 |
| THE BRIDGE TO HOPE | $12,730 |
| MINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION | $12,730 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $12,730 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your 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.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
- SSSTEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $38k · revenue 0%
- MSMINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $33k · revenue -32%
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- FSFRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROSone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Americares Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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.
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 THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Future Urban Leaders ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE TO HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MABEL TAINTER LITERARY LIBRARY AND EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS ↗
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: Gale Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Dunn County Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 John Gale Memorial 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.
- Americares Foundation 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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