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Twin Cities Orthopedics Foundation at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Twin Cities Orthopedics Foundation

To advance musculoskeletal health through community service, orthopedic research, education, and training.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$156kRecreation & Sports$100kHuman Services$81kYouth Development$55kEnvironment$45kInternational$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $75,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $99,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$502k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF KAFIKA HOUSE$20,000
INFINITE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE$20,000
UNITED HEROES LEAGUE$15,000
IMPACT APPLICATIONS$10,500
NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PARTNERS4HOPE TANZANIA: $10k → 6%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 14%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $10k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $10k → 11%YMCA ADVENTURE LAB: $10k → 11%CYCLE HEALTH: $15k → 11%CYCLE HEALTH: $10k → 11%CYCLE HEALTH: $8k → 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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$281k · 5 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +148% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$281k
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+148%
0%

Still filing today

80%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KAFIKA HOUSE F/K/A FRIENDS OF THE PLASTER HOUSE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $93k · revenue +148%
  • UH
    UNITED HEROES LEAGUE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +139%
  • BO
    Bolder Options
    3× · 2018–2021 · $25k · revenue +191%

Funded once

  • EA
    EPA AUDIO VISUAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $45k
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +35%
  • RV
    ROLLX VANS
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Friends of Minnesota Men's Gymnasti Mannon
Recreation & Sports
2
Third Ward Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Education
3
Fight for a Chance
—
4
Leader Foundation
—
5
The Challenge Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Prime Athletic Performance the Real Nine Football Foundation
Recreation & Sports
7
Young Athlete Foundation
Youth Development
8
Train the Nations
Religion
9
BossAbility Inc
—
10
Dirty Bird Athletics
Recreation & Sports
11
Mash Elite Strength Inc

Provide support, training and information to the sport of strength training and competition

—
12
Athleaders 360

To empower young athletes to develop leadership, identity, and life skills through sports, mentorship, and creative expression.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hallie Q Brown Community Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ladder for America. 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

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 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPA AUDIO VISUAL INC: $44,689 · OtherEPA AUDIO VISUAL INCImpact Applications: $20,625 · OtherImpact ApplicationsINFINITE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE: $20,000 · OtherINFINITE HEALTH COLLABORATIVEROLLX VANS: $20,000 · OtherROLLX VANSCOOPER HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherCOOPER HIGH SCHOOLNEXT DAY ACCESS: $10,808 · OtherNEXT DAY ACCESSYMCA Greater Twin Cities: $7,500 · OtherEMPOWER: $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF KAFIKA HOUSE F/K/A FRIENDS OF THE PLASTER HOUSE: $92,500 · HealthFRIENDS OF KAFIKA HOUSE F/K/…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED HEROES LEAGU…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $62,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIA…Partners 4 Hope Tanzania: $10,000 · Human ServicesPartners 4 Hope Tan…HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesHALLIE Q BROWN COMM…Bolder Options: $25,000 · EducationNORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LADDER FOR AMERICA: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$148,622Health$118,000Recreation & Sports$80,000Human Services$80,000Education$25,000Philanthropy$10,000Youth Development$5,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF KAFIKA HOUSE F/K/A FRIENDS OF THE PLASTER HOUSE: $92,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $80,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $62,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBolder Options: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPartners 4 Hope Tanzania: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Twin Cities Orthopedics Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Twin Cities Orthopedics Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Twin Cities Orthopedics Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Twin Cities Orthopedics Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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