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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 it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Boy's Town: $100 → 12%Boys 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
WI
NY
IA
PA
CO
NE
VA
MD
KS
DC
MS
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

+17%
+3%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +50%
  • 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesFriends & Co: $100 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPro-Life Action Ministries Inc: $250 over 5y, 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 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 budgetFriends & Co: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LABOURE SOCIETY INC: $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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds TANDEM FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas W & Janice a Segar Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas W & Janice a Segar Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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