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University of St Thomas

Inspired by catholic intellectual tradition, the university of st.

$217M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Community Improvement$352kCrime & Legal$41kHousing & Shelter$24kEducation$16kFood & Nutrition$15kHealth$8k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $16,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $216,515,559 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $216,499,559 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bridging Inc$16,000
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 (FY18–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $8k → 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.

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$352k · 3 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$352k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+40%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR ETHICAL ORGANIZATIONS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $270k · 43% of their budget
  • MC
    Macalester-Groveland Community Council
    4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue -4%
  • DC
    District Council 13 Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • MJ
    MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +40%
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +21%
  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +74%

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
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
2
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

4
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…

5
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…

6
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
7
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
8
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

9
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
10
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
11
Civic Consulting Minnesota

Ccm helps local governments achieve significant and measurable improvements by giving them the tools to be more efficient. we do this by providing private sector pro bono expertise to solve specific, tangible problems for governmental…

12
Minnesota Medical Association

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is District Council 13 Inc. 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

12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR ETHICAL ORGANIZATIONS — $269,755 · OtherCENTER FOR ETHICAL ORGANIZATIONSDistrict Council 13 Inc — $41,000 · OtherDistrict Council 13 IncMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $28,940 · OtherMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATIONBridging Inc — $16,000 · OtherMacalester-Groveland Community Council — $41,000 · Community ImprovementMacalester…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) — $16,000 · EducationLOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF MINNESOTA INC — $6,000 · EducationHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterST CLOUD HOSPITAL — $7,500 · HealthOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $7,500 · Human ServicesFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $7,500 · Food & NutritionHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$355,695Community Improvement$41,000Education$22,000Housing & Shelter$7,500Health$7,500Human Services$7,500Food & Nutrition$7,500Youth Development$6,000

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 budgetCENTER FOR ETHICAL ORGANIZATIONS — $269,755 over 3y, 43% of budgetMacalester-Groveland Community Council — $41,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetDistrict Council 13 Inc — $41,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $28,940 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetBridging Inc — $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) — $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST CLOUD HOSPITAL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF MINNESOTA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $6,000 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.

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 University of St Thomas 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 · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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