· Public charity
The K Foundation
None
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 175 grants below total $2,778,611 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,750,811 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,972,200 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k94 grants · $650k
- $10k–50k76 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $354k
- $250k+1 grant · $441k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON -HOUSTON | $441,190 |
| SHIR TKVAH CONGREGATION | $120,348 |
| FLAGS FOR FORT SNELLING | $114,594 |
| CURTAIN CALL INC | $63,545 |
| WILDLIFE IN CRISIS | $55,174 |
| SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS | $48,678 |
| MARTHA'S HOUSEINC | $41,203 |
| KALTREIDER-BENFER LIBRARY | $35,690 |
| STILL KICKIN | $35,226 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT | $30,893 |
| HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC | $30,496 |
| SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC | $28,903 |
| KIDS HELPING KIDS | $28,540 |
| SOS HEALTH CARE INC | $28,536 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GEORGETOWN COUNTY | $27,111 |
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 (FY17–18, $796k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 152 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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
- HIHUGE IMPROV THEATER2× · 2017–2018 · $76k · revenue +412%
- IISAIAH2× · 2017–2018 · $34k · revenue +101%
- TTUBMAN2× · 2017–2018 · $34k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- AUAUGSBURG UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $193k · revenue +30%
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $168k · revenue +83%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $90k
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…
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Tigerlion Arts. 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 36 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
445 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. 445 of the 507 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGS FOR FORT SNELLING ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds HUGE IMPROV THEATER ↗
- Who funds CURTAIN CALL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds Center of the American Experiment ↗
- Who funds PTA MINNESOTA CONGRESS NATHAN HALE ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MARTHAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YINGHUA ACADEMY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HANDS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Prepare and Prosper ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds KALTREIDER-BENFER LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds STILL KICKIN ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH ↗
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: Pohlad Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Target Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 K 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.
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Fairfield County Chorale Inc — 3% of income from government
- Music On the Hill Inc — 3% of income from government
- Curtain Call Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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