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Warren Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA | $6,000 |
| SOJOURNER PROJECT | $6,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACE | $6,000 |
| AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $6,000 |
| WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS | $6,000 |
| EMMA NORTON SERVICES | $6,000 |
| LISTENING HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ANGEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BANYAN COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $5,000 |
| KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| TWIN CITIES | $5,000 |
| GOOD IN THE HOOD | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER | $5,000 |
| LITERACY MINNESOTA | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% 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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ENEMMA NORTON SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +93%
- KCKeystone Community Services6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +41%
- GMGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SPSAINT PAUL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE--one grant, 2020 · $8k
- LHLISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +69%
- HOHOUSE OF CHARITYone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue 0%
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.
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
Minnesota housing partnership (mhp) expands housing and community development opportunity by leading collaborative work to promote systems change and grow develoopment capacity.
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
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…
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.
Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…
MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridging Hearts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 14% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 69 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 REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds GOOD IN THE 'HOOD ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Sojourner Project Inc ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds LITERACY MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds LA OPORTUNIDAD INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
- Who funds Carmen Pampa Fund ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds BRIDGING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA WOODLANDS ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC YOUTH CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Mobile Hope ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
- Who funds UPSTREAM ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds Community Partners with Youth ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Casey Albert T Oneil Fdn
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 Warren 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.
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.
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