· Private foundation
Valley News 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $4,800 |
| Mankato Youth Place | $4,500 |
| Minnesota State University Foundation | $3,000 |
| Tee It Up For The Troops | $2,700 |
| B The Light Foundation (Breast Cancer) | $2,694 |
| Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota | $2,500 |
| Mankato Area United Way | $2,500 |
| Educare Foundation | $1,500 |
| Kiwanis Holiday Lights | $1,250 |
| Twin Rivers Council For The Arts | $1,250 |
| Bethany Lutheran College & Seminary Inc | $1,000 |
| Feeding Our Communities Partners | $1,000 |
| Junior Achievement | $800 |
| Open Door Health Center | $750 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
72 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MYMANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +146%
- TITEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +104%
- SCSOUTH CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- OCON COURSE FOUNDATION USAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +167%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500
- MOMarch of Dimes - MN Chapterone grant, 2017 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Committee Against Domestic Abuse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Washington Fireworks Celebration. 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 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 96 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN RIVERS COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mankato Area Foundation ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding Our Communities Partners ↗
- Who funds ONE BRIGHT STAR ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MANKATO INC ↗
- Who funds VINE FAITH IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE EARTH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ON COURSE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds House of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Partners for Affordable Housing ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANKATO AREA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE EARTH NICOLLET COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY 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.
Open a dossier: Mankato Area Foundation · Glen a Taylor Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · L & N Andreas Foundation · Jones Page Jacobson Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Olseth Foundation · Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation · Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council · The Taylor 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 Valley News Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.