· Private foundation
Womack Family 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $12,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA | $8,000 |
| ST DAVID'S CHILD DEV FAMILY CENTER | $7,500 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $7,500 |
| THE WAYSIDE HOUSE | $7,500 |
| TUBMAN FAMILY ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| AVENUES FOR HOMELESS YOUTH | $7,500 |
| THE REDEMPTION PROJECT | $7,000 |
| 180 DEGREES | $7,000 |
| REACH FOR RESOURCES INC | $5,000 |
| ELPIS ENTERPRISES | $5,000 |
| SILVER SOBRIETY INC | $4,500 |
| CHANGE INC | $2,000 |
| THE DWELLING PLACE | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +220%
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAM7× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +182%
- WHWAYSIDE HOUSE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2018 · $5k
- NSNORTHERN STAR COUNCILone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +13%
- TCThe Cookie Cartone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -47%
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.
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
To be a community in which all youth, without regard to their living situation, have an equal opportunity to pursue and achieve their goals and dreams. the agency does this by supporting, resourcing, and empowering young people on their…
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…
YWCA St. Paul's mission is to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
To provide pathways to end youth homelessness.
Rod's house builds authentic connections with young people, supports them in feeling respected and secure in who they are, empowers them to reach their full potential, and positively connects them to the community. rod's house envisions an…
Assisting families in shelters to gain more confidence in building future goals that will lead to success of the entire family.
Services to runaway youth
Simpson housing services' mission is to house, support, & advocate for people experiencing homelessness. we know that with close, individual advocacy & support individuals & families experiencing homelessness achieve housing stability.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 180 Degrees Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elpis Enterprises. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds 180 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE REDEMPTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SILVER SOBRIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Elpis Enterprises ↗
- Who funds CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Sundance Family Foundation · Shavlik Family Charitable Trust · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · The Hubbard Broadcasting 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 Womack 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.