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The Victoria Velie Henry Family Foundati
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN HOME SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| KING'S SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $1,600 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA | $1,000 |
| MADD | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA | $750 |
| AMERICA KIDNEY FUND | $700 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $700 |
| AMERICAS VETDOGS | $600 |
| METRO MEALS ON WHEELS | $600 |
| HOPE CHEST FOR BREAST CANCER | $500 |
| A DOOR OF HOPE | $500 |
| RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION | $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 (FY19–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 15 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +23%
- OFORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION4× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +36%
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- EHELI HART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k
- HCHOPE CHESTone grant, 2020 · $1k
- MAMAKE A WISH FDN OF AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $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.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…
We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthritis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fraser Valley Lacrosse Club. 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 41 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 96 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds ELI HART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Minnetonka Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG BEAR VALLEY ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CHEST FOR BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIVE BLOOD RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds FRASER VALLEY LACROSSE CLUB ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Baird Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
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 Victoria Velie Henry Family Foundati 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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