· Private foundation
The McNeely Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k71 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $905k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $620k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION (EAST SIDE FUNDERS GROUP) | $125,000 |
| WAKAN TIPI AWANYANKAPI | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $65,000 |
| WAKAN TIPI AWANYANKAPI | $55,000 |
| URBAN ROOTS | $50,000 |
| SAINT PAUL URBAN TENNIS PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION (EAST SIDE FUNDERS GROUP) | $50,000 |
| EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY | $50,000 |
| 30000 FEET | $50,000 |
| SAINT PAUL PARKS AND RECREATION CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| EAST SIDE ARTS COUNCIL | $45,000 |
| COOKIE CART | $40,000 |
| TREE TRUST | $40,000 |
| 30000 FEET | $35,000 |
| LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $35,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $759k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The McNeely Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
131 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k 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
- LPLOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT6× · 2019–2024 · $576k · revenue +562%
- UOUniversity of St Thomas3× · 2022–2024 · $425k · revenue +17%
- URURBAN ROOTS MN6× · 2019–2024 · $317k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- NLNEW LENS URBAN MENTORING SOCIETY INCone grant, 2019 · $50k
- AIAMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +231%
- MSMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
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…
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;…
Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…
End hunger together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership and the most unlike its peers is California Cleft Pup Rescue. 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 29 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
190 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. 190 of the 297 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 SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds URBAN ROOTS MN ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds 30000 Feet ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL URBAN TENNIS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
- Who funds Latino Economic Development Center ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds Dream of Wild Health ↗
- Who funds Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds Tree Trust ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIA ↗
- Who funds NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT PAUL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES CATALYST MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds Prepare and Prosper ↗
- Who funds CHARTWELL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Indigenous Roots ↗
- Who funds HEART OF DANCE ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The McKnight Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Target 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 McNeely 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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