· Private foundation
The William D and Joyce E Sexton 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of THE WILLIAM D AND JOYCE E SEXTON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $396k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| JASPAR AREA DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $50,000 |
| FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING | $50,000 |
| LUVERNE KIDS ROCK DAYCARE CENTER | $35,000 |
| CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| COLD SPRING AREA YOUTH ASSOC | $25,000 |
| TCU | $23,000 |
| COLLEGE OF ST BENEDICT | $20,000 |
| ISD 466 DASSEL-COKATO SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| MINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP | $15,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $15,000 |
| ZAMYA THEATRE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| BENCHWARMERS MEDIA | $15,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
104 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 14 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
Culver Educational Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +73%
SMILE TRAIN INC7× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +19%- HFHEADLANDS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $44k · revenue ×22 · 67% of their budget
Funded once
- DCDASSELL COKATO HOCKEY ARENAone grant, 2017 · $50k
- KRKIDS ROCK CHILD CARE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +144%
- ECEPISCOPAL CHURCH LUVERNE MNone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
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…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fastbreak Foundation. 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 27 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 144 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 Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds HEADLANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS ROCK CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds QUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Tahoe School ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds WIGGLE YOUR TOES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Benchwarmers Media ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE FAMILY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds TOP DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WITHALL ↗
- Who funds LUVERNE AREA COMMUNITY 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Offerdahl Family Foundation · The K Foundation · American Gift Fund · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Communitygiving · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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 William D and Joyce E Sexton 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.