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The Olseth 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.

$927k
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$1.6MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$495kHousing & Shelter$463kFood & Nutrition$424kHealth$418kPhilanthropy$383kCivil Rights$245kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $502k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $303k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC (WWF)$100,000
RECHARGE AMERICA INC$90,000
ST OLAF COLLEGE$60,000
THE ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$53,000
GREATER MANKATO AREA UNITED WAY INC$46,500
OREGON NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL FUND (OREGON WILD)$35,000
THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$30,000
PATH HOME (FORMERLY PHFS)$30,000
MANKATO AREA FOUNDATION$28,000
JUNGLE THEATER$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY$22,000
OREGON WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$20,000
MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC$20,000
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC$20,000
OREGON FOOD BANK INC$20,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $35k → 12%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $20k → 12%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $10k → 12%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $5k → 12%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $5k → 15%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $5k → 15%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $20k → 11%YWCA MANKATO: $5k → 15%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $15k → 11%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $5k → 15%OFF THE BLUE COUCH: $13k → 11%OFF THE BLUE COUCH: $10k → 11%OFF THE BLUE COUCH: $5k → 11%OFF THE BLUE COUCH: $5k → 11%OFF THE BLUE COUCH: $3k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%OFF THE BLUE COUCH: $3k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $10k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of The Olseth 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.

The Olseth Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.6% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 62 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
12

Total granted

$5.4M
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+20%

Still filing today

85%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • RA
    RECHARGE AMERICA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $505k · revenue +90%
  • SO
    ST OLAF COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +57%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $275k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • MC
    MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +96%
  • FV
    FLATHEAD VALLEY SKATEPARK ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

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.

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Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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4
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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6
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
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Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
8
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
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Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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10
Mill City Farmers Market Inc

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…

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11
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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12
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Environmental Center. 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 backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Senior Residential CareCrisis Support & Basic NeedsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Charter SchoolsFaith-Based Spiritual Forma…Youth Development and Educa…Senior Housing and Care Ser…Oregon Civic InfrastructureImmigrant Community 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%10%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr14%35%35–55yr14%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%18%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr14%25%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
14%
2,708/19,945

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.

05the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
53/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC (WWF) — $610,000 · OtherWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC (WWF)Mankato Area Foundation — $147,000 · OtherMankato Area FoundationOREGON FOOD BANK — $140,000 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY — $137,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARYGREATER MANKATO AREA UNITED WAY INC — $228,800 · OtherGREATER MANKATO AREA UNITED WAY INCMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $121,000 · OtherThe Advocates For Human Rights — $217,000 · OtherThe Advocates For Human RightsOREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherOREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION+43 more — $794,488 · Other+43 moreST OLAF COLLEGE — $360,000 · EducationST OLAF COLLEG…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $105,180 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC — $85,500 · EducationMINNESOTA STAT…CLIMATE GENERATION — $75,000 · EducationCLIMATE GENERA…THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationTHE FORT LEWIS…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Education+2 more — $9,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $180,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIBRARY F…THE JUNGLE THEATER — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JUNGLE TH…THE HISTORY THEATRE INC — $72,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORY T…CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA — $65,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS MUS…OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $60,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC…Multnomah Arts Center Association — $45,500 · Arts & CultureMultnomah Art…THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PLAYWRIGH…GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE — $40,000 · Arts & CultureGIVING VOICE …+2 more — $22,000 · Arts & CultureRECHARGE AMERICA INC — $505,000 · Community ImprovementRECHARGE A…+1 more — $8,000 · Community ImprovementPATH HOME — $172,500 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $122,500 · Housing & ShelterPEAR — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterMINNESOTA ENGAGEMENT ON SHELTER AND HOUSING — $55,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $3,250 · Housing & ShelterPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $275,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $120,000 · HealthOPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER — $15,000 · Health+2 more — $8,000 · HealthOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — $210,000 · EnvironmentFRESH ENERGY — $60,000 · EnvironmentFREE GEEK — $47,000 · EnvironmentKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER — $30,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY — $15,000 · EnvironmentLiving Earth Center — $15,000 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · Environment
Other$2,545,288Education$699,680Arts & Culture$675,000Community Improvement$513,000Housing & Shelter$423,250Health$418,000Environment$382,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRECHARGE AMERICA INC — $505,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE — $360,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $275,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MANKATO AREA UNITED WAY INC — $228,800 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights — $217,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — $210,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPATH HOME — $172,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetOREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE JUNGLE THEATER — $150,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMankato Area Foundation — $147,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY — $137,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $122,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $121,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $105,180 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC — $85,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCLIMATE GENERATION — $75,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE HISTORY THEATRE INC — $72,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPEAR — $70,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY — $70,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC — $70,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA — $65,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFRESH ENERGY — $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ENGAGEMENT ON SHELTER AND HOUSING — $55,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $52,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $50,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFREE GEEK — $47,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMultnomah Arts Center Association — $45,500 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetSTEGER WILDERNESS CENTER FOR INNOVATION — $45,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetTHE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING VOICE INITIATIVE — $40,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetFeeding Our Communities Partners — $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOFF THE BLUE COUCH — $38,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetMinneapolis American Indian Center — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER — $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc — $28,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeed The Mass — $15,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetVINE FAITH IN ACTION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds RECHARGE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MANKATO AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Advocates For Human Rights ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PATH HOME ↗
  • Who funds OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JUNGLE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds Mankato Area Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HISTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEAR ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ENGAGEMENT ON SHELTER AND HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FREE GEEK ↗
  • Who funds Multnomah Arts Center Association ↗
  • Who funds STEGER WILDERNESS CENTER FOR INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Feeding Our Communities Partners ↗
  • Who funds OFF THE BLUE COUCH ↗
  • Who funds Minneapolis American Indian Center ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION INC ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mayo Clinic Group Ret…Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustMankato Area Foundati…Valley News FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Glen a Taylor Foundat…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Oregon Community …The Collins Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN35.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mankato Area Foundation · Valley News Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Glen a Taylor Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins 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 Olseth 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Neighborhood House Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Free Geek — 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% of income from government
  • Pear — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Olseth Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Olseth 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 88 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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