· Private foundation
The Ron and Kathy Colby Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL | $15,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC | $15,000 |
| WEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $10,000 |
| HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC | $5,000 |
| SOLID GROUND | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES UPPER MIDWEST | $5,000 |
| PACER CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACE | $5,000 |
| DSU HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC | $3,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $3,000 |
| RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $248k) 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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- WBWEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +104%
- SMST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +205%
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SSST STEPHEN THE MARTYRone grant, 2020 · $15k
- MSMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUTone grant, 2020 · $2k
- HSHOLY SPIRIT CHURCH & SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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 48 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 54 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 WEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds Air Warrior Courage Foundation ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of NOVA ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The American College ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds KREMPELS BRAIN INJURY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds CANTUS ↗
- Who funds EXODUS FINANCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DSU HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Minnesota Community 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 Ron and Kathy Colby Family 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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