· Private foundation
The Joseph Durda Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVING WELL DISABILITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| EVERY THIRD SATURDAY | $2,500 |
| 23RD VETERAN | $2,500 |
| MINNESOTA WILLS FOR HEROES | $2,500 |
| RESOURCE WEST | $2,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| CAST OUTDOOR ADVENTURES | $2,000 |
| CRESCENT COVE | $2,000 |
| PRAIRIE STAR CARE FARM | $1,500 |
| HELPING PAWS | $1,000 |
| BOLDER OPTIONS | $1,000 |
| DUNMAC GOLF FOR VETS | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LWLiving Well Disability Services7× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +50%
- MHMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +29%
- CCCRESCENT COVE7× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2019 · $3k
- MLMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUMone grant, 2019 · $3k
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 support the charitable purposes of homeward bound, inc.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
Horizon home care & hospice, inc. is a full-service provider offering a wide range of specialty services to meet the needs of patients in southeastern wisconsin. as an extension of a network of acute-care hospitals and other health care…
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…
Helping individuals experience life to the fullest, through every phase of their journey.
To strengthen the capacity of individuals and families to improve their quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prairie Star Care Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 34 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 Living Well Disability Services ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC ↗
- Who funds Resourcewest ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 23RD VETERAN ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds JOY COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Bolder Options ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STAR CARE FARM ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC ↗
- Who funds Hammer Residences Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE TWIN CITIES 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Tradition Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The James M Stanton Foundation · Russell T Lund Charitable Trust
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 Joseph Durda 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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