· Private foundation
The Patch 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANGELICAL CONVENANT CHURCH | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| SALEM COVENANT CHURCH | $150,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $50,000 |
| METRO HOPE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $25,000 |
| MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE | $25,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE | $20,000 |
| AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES | $20,000 |
| TRUE FRIENDS | $10,000 |
| COURAGE KENNY REHABILITATION INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +105%
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND9× · 2017–2025 · $420k · revenue +119%
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +83%
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +98%- EFEXODUS FINANCIAL SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +755%
- BIBIG IDEAS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -19%
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…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
Engaging the community to end hunger
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
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…
As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Big Ideas Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 67 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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds METRO HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE WITH A MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF CHARITY ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds Richfield Spartan Foundation 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.
Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · The K Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global 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 Patch 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.