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Weekes Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHIPPS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $70,000 |
| GRACE PLACE- SALVATION ARMY | $65,330 |
| NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL | $60,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY INC | $60,000 |
| OPERATION HELP INC | $50,000 |
| SUGARLOAF THE NORTH SHORE STEWARDSHIP ASSN | $45,000 |
| ST CROIX FOOD BANK | $35,000 |
| FAMILYMEANS | $20,000 |
| TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC | $20,000 |
| DENVER DREAM CENTER | $20,000 |
| FLATHEAD LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP | $15,000 |
| VALLEY OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| HUDSON AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| ST CROIX VALLEY SART | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
37 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- OHOPERATION HELP INC5× · 2020–2024 · $584k · revenue +58%
- NSNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +59%
- STSUGARLOAF THE NORTH SHORE STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +403%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- BPBOB PRATT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Engaging the community to end hunger
To assist individuals and families meet their basic needs by providing resources in a healthy and caring environment. through these actions we build hope and support self-sufficiency.
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…
Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.
End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.
Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.
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.
Our mission is empowering people as they age.
MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christian Food Cupboard of Hudson. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 45 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 OPERATION HELP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SUGARLOAF THE NORTH SHORE STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds Valley Outreach ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE LOAVES FOOD & CLOTHING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hudson Area Backpack and Food Program Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY SART INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANU FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FOOD CUPBOARD OF HUDSON ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR HIKING TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ST CROIX AND RED CEDAR VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
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: St Croix Valley Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way St Croix and Red Cedar Valleys Inc · Hardenbergh Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · William H Phipps 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 Weekes 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.
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.