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Wildey Mitchell 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $392k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHLAND | $80,000 |
| MINNESOTA MASONIC CLINIC FOR CHILDHOOD COMMUNICATION DISORDERS | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC | $30,000 |
| RICHARD I BONG VETERANS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,031 |
| ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| DULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| THE COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA | $25,000 |
| DULUTH LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION MINNESOTA-NORTH DAKOTA CHAPTER | $15,000 |
| HARTLEY NATURE CENTER | $15,000 |
| FIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST NORTHLAND | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- BCBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH7× · 2019–2025 · $530k · revenue +8%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +38%
- CUCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- CDCHUM'S DULUTH EMERGENCY FOOD SHELFone grant, 2019 · $25k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2019 · $20k
- AZARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +55%
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.
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…
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
Engaging the community to end hunger
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 grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Union Gospel Mission 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 52 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 33 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 BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds DULUTH LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds DULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARTLEY NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR CAREER SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds ARROWHEAD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THE HILLS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Northland Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Pachel Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Otto Bremer Trust · Lahti Family Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Arsher Charitable Trust
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 Wildey Mitchell 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.