· Private foundation
Whaley 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $176k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $308k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| WALKER ART CENTER | $290,000 |
| CRETIN-DERHAM HALL | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY | $125,000 |
| SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE | $70,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL FUND | $62,500 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $40,000 |
| MACALESTER COLLEGE - ANNUAL FUND | $30,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $25,000 |
| KIBERIA GIRLS SOCCER ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER STURM COLLEGE OF LAW | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES - HOPE STREET | $20,000 |
| NATIVITY OF OUR LORD CHURCH | $11,000 |
| UNBREAKABLE PIT BULL RESCUE | $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, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $664k 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
- WAWALKER ART CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +87%
- MHMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $521k · revenue +12%
- TFTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY6× · 2020–2025 · $261k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- MCMacalester College - Entrepreneurship Fundone grant, 2017 · $225k
- UOUniversity of Minnesota - Carlson MIN Corp Programone grant, 2017 · $200k
- WAWalker Art Center - Capital Campaignone grant, 2017 · $160k
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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
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…
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…
Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…
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…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kgsa Foundation. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 61 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 WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Sisters Rising Worldwide ↗
- Who funds KGSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB ↗
- Who funds LITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Hardenbergh Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The K Foundation · The Graco 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 Whaley 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.
- Northeastern University — 7% 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.