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Wem Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$359M
Granted FY2023
135
Grants FY2023
17
States reached
$75M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.

Arts & Culture$213MEducation$168MHealth$52MEnvironment$47MYouth Development$27MReligion$21MFood & Nutrition$20MHuman Services$15MOther$0
02FY2023 · 135 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k14 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+86 grants · $356M
$550,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$75,165,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART$25,050,000
THE LEARNING ALLIANCE$20,000,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$15,000,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE$10,050,000
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$10,030,000
ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000,000
MINNEAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION$10,000,000
GUTHRIE THEATER$8,225,000
PROJECT SUCCESS$7,100,000
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE$6,250,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$6,100,000
GROVES ACADEMY$5,255,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$5,150,000
GREAT MN SCHOOLS$5,100,000
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 (FY20–23, $20.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%THERE WITH CARE: $2k → 12%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $265k → 10%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%BLACK MEN TEACH: $200k → 11%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA: $8k → 11%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 12%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $25k → 11%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $50 → 12%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $3.2M → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $325k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $100k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $100k → 11%THINK SMALL: $3.1M → 14%THINK SMALL: $80k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $4.8M → 11%THINK SMALL: $50k → 14%THINK SMALL: $50k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $300k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $300k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $200k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $100k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $3k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $2k → 11%EMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY: $25k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $2k → 11%EMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY: $20k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $1k → 11%EMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY: $10k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $150k → 11%HUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $150k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $3.5M → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $100k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $200 → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $15k → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $5k → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $5k → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $5k → 11%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $3.3M → 11%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $140k → 11%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $140k → 11%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $100k → 11%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $50k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$490M · 124 repeat orgs$94M to everyone else

124 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
45

Total granted

$490M
$46M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+38%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $75M · revenue +25%
  • DC
    DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $31M · revenue +42% · 47% of their budget
  • MS
    MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $27M · revenue +73% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $13M
  • MS
    Montana State University Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10M · revenue +114%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES - MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $6.5M

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 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…

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2
Minnesota Medical Association

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

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3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

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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…

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5
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
6
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.

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7
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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8
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
9
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
10
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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11
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
12
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Mattys Heart and Soul Animal Rescue. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Environmental Conservation …Holistic Wellness & Recover…Christian Ministry Developm…Residential Care ServicesFamily FoundationsCharter SchoolsCharter SchoolsCommunity Support ServicesCommunity Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr13%54%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/159
the rest of the field
14%
2,033/14,258

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

153 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. 153 of the 209 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.

32
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
150/153
Grantees still filing
106/153
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM — $30,135,200 · OtherMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUMUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION - BELL MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM — $21,125,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION - BELL …WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $16,085,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHWILLIAMS COLLEGE — $15,000,000 · OtherWILLIAMS COLLEGEABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,000,000 · OtherABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONYALE UNIVERSITY — $12,667,368 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $8,685,000 · Other+102 more — $109,016,854 · Other+102 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $75,205,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $26,745,000 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS …MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,935,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETYVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC — $12,115,000 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INCRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC — $10,145,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE INCGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $8,285,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $6,285,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $14,116,500 · Arts & Culture+11 moreDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $31,000,000 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TE…THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC — $21,525,200 · EducationTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE …UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $10,850,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOT…Montana State University Foundation Inc — $10,000,000 · EducationMontana State Universi…GREAT MN SCHOOLS — $8,144,506 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLSPROJECT SUCCESS — $7,285,000 · EducationPROJECT SUCCESSHOPE ACADEMY INC — $6,616,250 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INCGROVES ACADEMY — $5,930,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $4,650,000 · EducationPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 — $4,375,000 · Education+24 more — $12,438,000 · Education+24 moreMAYO CLINIC — $26,000,000 · HealthWE CARE SOLAR — $2,225,000 · Health+11 more — $1,675,000 · HealthWAY TO GROW — $5,650,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $3,725,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $3,680,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $3,600,200 · Human ServicesThink Small — $3,280,000 · Human Services+12 more — $969,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $14,353,000 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEAL — $1,562,000 · Food & NutritionGOOD GROCER — $950,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $504,000 · Food & NutritionMinneapolis Parks Foundation — $10,120,000 · Recreation & SportsTWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM — $1,425,000 · Recreation & SportsV3 SPORTS INC — $1,000,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $250,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$227,714,422Arts & Culture$178,831,500Education$122,813,956Health$29,900,000Human Services$20,904,200Food & Nutrition$17,369,000Recreation & Sports$12,795,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $75,205,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $31,000,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $26,745,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $26,000,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,935,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC — $21,525,200 over 4y, 21% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,000,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $14,353,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC — $12,115,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $10,850,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC — $10,145,000 over 4y, 56% of budgetMinneapolis Parks Foundation — $10,120,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $10,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $8,685,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $8,285,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS — $8,144,506 over 4y, 99% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS — $7,285,000 over 4y, 95% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC — $6,616,250 over 4y, 45% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $6,550,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $6,285,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetGROVES ACADEMY — $5,930,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetWAY TO GROW — $5,650,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $5,065,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $4,860,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $4,650,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 — $4,375,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC — $4,210,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $3,750,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $3,725,000 over 4y, 53% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $3,680,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $3,600,200 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER — $3,500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $3,350,100 over 4y, 45% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $3,330,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetThink Small — $3,280,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School — $3,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $3,000,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $3,000,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC — $3,000,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR — $2,225,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetPRODUCERS PARTNERSHIP INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $1,654,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $1,600,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC — $1,565,200 over 2y, 17% of budgetEVERY MEAL — $1,562,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART — $1,555,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) — $1,450,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM — $1,425,000 over 2y, 48% 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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Minneapolis Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
  • Who funds PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 ↗
  • Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Richard M Schulze…The Walser FoundationJoyful Noise Charitab…Mortenson Family Foun…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Sauer Family Foun…Otto Bremer TrustCh Robinson Worldwide…Pohlad Family Foundat…Ciresi Walburn Founda…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN81.2× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Joyful Noise Charitable Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Ciresi Walburn 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 Wem 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
  • National History Day Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Wem Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wem 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 209 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines