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Thomas W & Janice a Segar Char Tr

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.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$400
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Religion$8kFood & Nutrition$2kHuman Services$2kInternational$2kEducation$1kCivil Rights$850Health$500Community Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$400
Bloomington Meals on Wheels$300
Knights of Columbus$250
Abria Programs resources$200
St Michaels Episcopal Church$200
Missionary Sisters St Peter Claver$200
st Bonaventure Catholic Church$200
Sharing and Caring Hands$200
Carmen Pampa Fund$200
Students for Life of America$100
St Labre Indian School$100
Friends Co$100
Pro Life Action Ministries$100
Nativity of Mary Catholic Church$100
Habitat for Humanity$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $650) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Boys Town: $100 → 12%Boy's Town: $100 → 12%Sharing and Caring Hands: $200 → 11%Sharing and Caring Hands: $50 → 11%Little Brothers-Friends of the Elde: $100 → 11%Catholic Charities of St Paul: $100 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MT
MN
WI
NY
IA
PA
CO
NE
VA
MD
KS
DC
MS
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11k · 30 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
38

Total granted

$11k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+2%

Still filing today

43%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionHealthPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther

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

  • SF
    Students for Life of America Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $550 · revenue +18%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $350 · revenue +34%
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $350 · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • AF
    American Fund for Children with AID
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • CO
    Church of Saint Katherine Drexel
    one grant, 2021 · $500
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

2
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
3
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
4
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
5
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
6
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

8
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
9
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
10
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
11
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr15%37%35–55yr14%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr15%47%35–55yr14%35%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
4,156/32,067

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.

04the grantee network

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 74 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Nativity of Mary Church — $1,300 · OtherNativity of Mary ChurchAmerican Fund for Children with AID — $1,000 · OtherAmerican Fund for Children with AIDIndividual grant recipient — $800 · OtherSacred Heart Southern Missions — $600 · OtherVEAP Inc — $600 · OtherNativity of Mary Catholic Church — $550 · Other+57 more — $10,719 · Other+57 moreWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $350 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC — $250 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $200 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis — $100 · Human ServicesFriends & Co — $100 · Human ServicesCarmen Pampa Fund — $400 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $300 · InternationalStudents for Life of America Inc — $550 · Civil RightsHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $450 · EducationSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $300 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $200 · Health
Other$15,569Human Services$1,000International$700Civil Rights$550Education$450Food & Nutrition$300Health$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVEAP Inc — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc — $550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarmen Pampa Fund — $400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC — $350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTANDEM FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC — $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPro-Life Action Ministries Inc — $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY LIFE-CARE CENTER INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LABOURE SOCIETY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends & Co — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 VEAP Inc
  • Who funds Students for Life of America Inc
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds Carmen Pampa Fund
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
  • Who funds TANDEM FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC
  • Who funds Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY LIFE-CARE CENTER 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.

Xcel Energy FoundationMN20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Chase Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mark and Karen Rauenhorst Foundation · The Reiling Family Foundation Inc · The Graco Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Baird Foundation Inc

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 Thomas W & Janice a Segar Char Tr 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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