· Private foundation
The Raleigh 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Washington County | $7,700 |
| Christ Lutheran Church | $5,000 |
| Family Means | $5,000 |
| The Partnership Plan | $2,500 |
| Valley Outreach | $2,500 |
| Guardian Angels Catholic Church | $2,500 |
| Youth Advantage | $1,100 |
| Washington Co Historical Society | $1,060 |
| Cancer Legal Care | $1,000 |
| Merrick Community Services | $1,000 |
| Special Olympics Polar Plunge | $1,000 |
| St Paul's Monastery | $500 |
| American Cancer Society Relay for Life | $500 |
| Ponies Touchdown Club | $500 |
| Open Cupboard | $500 |
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, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of The Raleigh 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, 99% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 81% — 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.
42 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- VOValley Outreach9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +131%
- FFAMILYMEANS9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +21%
- CLCANCER LEGAL CARE9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- TRThe Rotary Foundationone grant, 2019 · $3k
- CLChrist Lutheran Church - Cemetery Fundone grant, 2022 · $3k
- UOUniversity of Minnesota Duluth - Land Labone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Washburn Center for Children diagnose and treats children in their social, emotional or behavioral development so that they grow into their full potential through therapeutic and healing services that includes their families in a setting…
Mission: Fairview is driven to heal, discover and educate for longer, healthier lives. Vision: Fairview is driving a healthier future. Values: Dignity: We value the uniqueness of each person and work to ensure everyone's right to privacy.…
Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.
Ucare will improve the health of our members through innovative services and partnerships across communities.
The mission of wellshare international is to advance sustainable community health around the world. wellshare international focuses its resources where it can have the greatest impact on the health of underserved and vulnerable…
As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…
Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.
The mission of mental health resources is to foster hope, health and recovery for people affected by mental illness and substance use disorder.
Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Advantage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodbury Heritage Society. 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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 63 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 Valley Outreach ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Washington County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY-EAST ↗
- Who funds CANCER LEGAL CARE ↗
- Who funds GRANITE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THREAD ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Change the Outcome ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD ↗
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: St Croix Valley Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Andersen Corporate Foundation · United Way of Washington County-East · Mardag 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 Raleigh 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.