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Webster Family 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.

$933k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$1.3MHealth$613kEducation$581kEnvironment$133kCivil Rights$100kFood & Nutrition$80kHuman Services$77kInternational$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $861k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE ACADEMY$125,000
CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$125,000
TRINITY CHURCH ABERDEEN$101,000
MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$100,000
EAGLE BROOK CHURCH$100,000
CHURCH OF CHRIST OF THE VALLEY$100,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
LIFE ON LIFE MINISTRIES (CITYJOY)$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ESTANCIA FOUNDATION$25,000
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$10,000
ELS FOR AUTISM$4,000
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 (FY23–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $10k → 14%ESTANCIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
SD
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 16 repeat orgs$731k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$2.8M
$483k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+35%

Still filing today

44%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MT
    Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $579k · revenue +44%
  • HA
    HOPE ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $576k · revenue +240%
  • OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • PF
    PCA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • TL
    TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +36%

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
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

2
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

3
Mercy Multiplied International Inc

Mercy multiplied international, inc. is a christian-based entity that exists as the central coordinating body for the mercy multiplied program and brand. formerly known as mercy ministries international, inc., the ministry officially…

4
Summit Ministries Inc

Summit ministries is an educational christian ministry with the purpose of equipping tomorrow's servant leaders to analyze competing worldviews and champion the christian faith, inspiring each one to love god with all his heart, soul,…

5
University of Northwestern - St Paul

See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…

Education
6
Minnesota Private College Fund

The minnesota private college fund serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Minnesota Medical Association

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

9
Achieve Twin Cities

As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…

Youth Development
10
Bestprep

To best prepare minnesota students with business, career and financial literacy skills through experiences that inspire success in work and life.

11
Minnehaha Academy

Minnehaha academy's primary purpose is to provide a high quality education to students in pre-school to grade 12 integrating christian faith and learning.

Education
12
Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota

Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Backyard Sports Cares Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%4%<5yr12%17%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr18%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%57%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr18%4%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,965

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.

04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EAGLE BROOK CHURCH — $400,000 · OtherEAGLE BROOK CHURCHCHURCH OF CHRIST OF THE VALLEY — $300,000 · OtherCHURCH OF CHRIST OF THE VALLEYIndividual grant recipient — $194,210 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $179,217 · OtherCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM — $133,000 · OtherMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUMTRINITY CHURCH ABERDEEN — $101,000 · OtherCITYJOY — $100,000 · OtherPCA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH — $100,000 · Other+17 more — $412,500 · Other+17 moreHOPE ACADEMY INC — $576,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INCBACKYARD SPORTS CARES INC — $30,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $578,575 · HealthMinnesota Teen Cha…+2 more — $24,000 · HealthOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $75,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE — $50,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $30,000 · InternationalTHE ESTANCIA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $20,000 · Human ServicesAMPLIFY MISSION NETWORK — $10,000 · ReligionThe Livestrong Foundation — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,194,927Education$611,000Health$602,575International$155,000Human Services$45,000Religion$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $578,575 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC — $576,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBACKYARD SPORTS CARES INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ESTANCIA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetROBBINSDALE WOMEN'S CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMPLIFY MISSION NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Livestrong Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMissionary Athletes International and Charlotte Eagles Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION — $3,000 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.

  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
  • Who funds BACKYARD SPORTS CARES INC
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds THE ESTANCIA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE INC
  • Who funds ROBBINSDALE WOMEN'S CENTER
  • Who funds AMPLIFY MISSION NETWORK
  • Who funds MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND
  • Who funds The Livestrong Foundation
  • Who funds Missionary Athletes International and Charlotte Eagles Inc
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
  • Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION

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.

American Gift FundDE14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Gift Fund · The Minneapolis Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Webster Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Webster Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Webster Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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