· Private foundation
William H Phipps Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHIPPS CENTER FOR THE ART | $108,333 |
| OPERATION HELP | $37,500 |
| HUDSON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $30,000 |
| TURNINGPOINT | $18,000 |
| YOUTH ACTION HUDSON | $15,000 |
| ST CROIX VALLEY SART | $15,000 |
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA | $13,000 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BRIDGE FOR COMMUNITY LIFE | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS-MN & WI RIVER VALLEY | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL OF BSA | $6,000 |
| HUDSON BACKPACK PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| HUDSON SAFE INC | $2,000 |
| YOUTH RESOURCE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 INC9× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +188%
- SCST CROIX VALLEY SART INC8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +124%
- HAHudson Area Backpack and Food Program Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +735%
Funded once
- FCFREE CLINIC OF PIERCE AND ST CROIXone grant, 2017 · $15k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NW WIone grant, 2019 · $8k
- SCST CROIX BIKE & PEDESTRIAN TRAIL COone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Music Saint Croix creates artistically excellent performances with exciting and unusual programming for the enjoyment of St. Croix Valley audiences.
Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.
Riversong utilizes and highlights the abundant music, art, history, and natural assets of the hutchinson area and surrounding region to provide a distinct musical and artistic experience to community members and visitors of all ages and…
To promote community support by empowering local non profit and school groups through fundraising. The premier event of the organization is the St Croix River Dunk which empowers organizations to further their missions and awareness.
Musical arts programs for Eagle River, Wisconsin
The hudson community choruses are dedicated to excellence in singing, through sharing, preserving and advancing the art of choral music in northeast ohio.
River Arts Alliance supports and celebrates regional arts and culture by connecting artists and community in the Winona, MN region.
Community choir organized to give concerts and train members.
To provide scholarships to hudson area high school students
Artaria centers on string quartet performance and education in minnesota. it is committed to presenting inspiring performances, to mentoring string players of all ages, and to illuminate the world's great repertoire of chamber music to a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way St Croix and Red Cedar Valleys Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hudson Safe Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 PHIPPS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HELP INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ACTION HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY SART INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ST CROIX AND RED CEDAR VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Area Backpack and Food Program Inc ↗
- Who funds HUDSON SAFE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE FOR COMMUNITY LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH ST CROIX ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds HUDSON AREA HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Weekes Family Foundation · United Way St Croix and Red Cedar Valleys Inc · Annmarie Foundation Inc · Hardenbergh Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 William H Phipps 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.
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