· Private foundation
True Blue 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRADLE OF HOPE OF MN | $10,000 |
| PRO-LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SACRED HEART HAITI MISSION CO HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH | $7,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA | $6,000 |
| BE NOT AFRAID INC | $6,000 |
| MINNESOTA CITIZEN'S CONCERNED FOR LIFE EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WINONA CO RACHEL PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CAMP COMPANION | $4,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| ROCHESTER AREA FOUNDATION CO LOTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of True Blue Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 73%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPro-Life Action Ministries Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +9%
- CCCAMP COMPANION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +184%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- SMST MARY OF THE LAKE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
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.
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
Our mission is to resuce dogs and cats from the street. to spay or neuter, innoculate and care for them until homes are found. in addition, the second part of our mission is to educate the public ont he importance of spaying and neutering…
Friends of animal adoptions, inc. (the organization), is a minnesota non- profit organization whose mission is to prevent cruelty to animals; provide shelter, emergency and other medical care; and to find good adoptive homes for cats,…
A consortium of ministries dedicated to obtaining constitutional protection personhood for unborn children from the moment of conception.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Prevent abortion by wearing a life-saving message.
Animal Rescue
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP COMPANION INC ↗
- Who funds BE NOT AFRAID INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Lifesitenewscom Inc ↗
- Who funds RUFF START RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR LIFE INC-EDUCATION FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization True Blue Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from True Blue Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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