· Private foundation
Windsor Community 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUE FRIENDS | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $23,515 |
| MN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| U OF M ADOPTION MEDICINE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BENILDE-ST MARGARET'S | $5,000 |
| DE LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| WOMENS LIFE CARE CENTER | $2,500 |
| WASHBURN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,009 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HOLY CROSS ANGLICAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| MINNPOST | $750 |
| JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL | $750 |
| MILL CITY FARMERS MARKET CHARITABLE FUND | $500 |
| MILL CITY COMMONS | $500 |
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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TFTRUE FRIENDS4× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +89%
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +29%- WLWOMENS LIFE CARE CENTER3× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- NLNEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +62%
- BSBENILDE ST MARGARETT SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $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.
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 mission of the Winona Health Foundation is to gather, steward, and distribute resources needed to support and advance the mission of Winona Health and its affiliates.
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…
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…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
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…
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Friends and the most unlike its peers is Adams Thermal Systems Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
20 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. 20 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 TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RESTORING ALL THINGS IN CHRIST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WOMENS LIFE CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTH ↗
- Who funds WASHBURN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILL CITY COMMONS ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds ADAMS THERMAL SYSTEMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds MinnPost ↗
- Who funds MILL CITY FARMERS MARKET CHARITABLE FUND ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Windsor Community 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.