Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersAlso receives grants — funding profile →
Plinth

· Community foundation

3m Open Fund

3M OPEN FUND is a nonprofit organization created to run an annual pga tour sanctioned professional golf tournament that will contribute positively to the life in the community through donations of the net proceeds from the event.

$700k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$2.9MRecreation & Sports$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.2MScience & Tech$556kHuman Services$538kCommunity Improvement$486kYouth Development$255kFood & Nutrition$225kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $647,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $700,373 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,273 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$28,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
M HEALTH FAIRVIEW MASONIC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$250,000
PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC$150,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$32,500
SPRING LAKE PARK FIRE DEPT INC$30,600
THE LARRY FITZGERALD FOUNDATION$30,000
PGA REACH MINNESOTA$30,000
ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEMS$28,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$20,000
BLAINE POLICE EXPLORERS$20,000
CUB FOUNDATION$15,000
FOSTER ONE$12,500
NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER$10,500
BE THE WHY$10,000
TWIN CITIES FILM FEST$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $568k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPEN ARMS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $5k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 15%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $100k → 14%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $100k → 14%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $50k → 14%FOSTER ONE: $13k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20k → 14%MAN UP CLUB: $5k → 14%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $100k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $100k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $50k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $10k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
CA
UT
KY
MD
AZ
DC
OK
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.4M · 24 repeat orgs$760k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -1% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
27

Total granted

$7.4M
$738k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
-2%

Still filing today

75%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • FH
    Fairview Health Services
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +33%
  • PT
    PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $660k · revenue +20%
  • TC
    TWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM
    5× · 2019–2024 · $282k · revenue +467%

Funded once

  • BO
    BUSINESS OF CARING - THE LEHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -50%
  • LS
    Lake Street Council
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -85%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +288%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

—
2
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
3
Professional Golfers Association Mn Section

To promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the minnesota section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf professionals…

—
4
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

—
5
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

—
6
Minnesota Golf Association Foundation

Use golf to do good. regardless of background or ability, every individual should have access to the life-changing benefits of the greatest game in the world. we want to share golf with everyone. the foundation uses golf to change lives.…

Education
7
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

—
9
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
10
Twin Cities in Motion

Twin cities in motion organizes the region's premier running events, including the medtronic twin cities marathon, a top 10 u.s. marathon with a mission of promoting healthy lifestyles through running events and community outreach, tcm is…

Recreation & Sports
11
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
12
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is 3M 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Social ServicesFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Development CentersUnited Way AffiliatesLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 18 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%9%<5yr12%23%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr18%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%11%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr16%44%35–55yr18%17%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,934

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/47
Grantees still filing
22/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Fairview Health Services — $2,625,000 · HealthFairview Health ServicesALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM — $263,500 · HealthALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM+2 more — $23,520 · HealthURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $260,125 · OtherURBAN VENTURES LEADER…VEAP Inc — $200,000 · OtherVEAP IncBLAINE POLICE FEDERATION — $147,408 · OtherBLAINE POLICE FEDERAT…MINNESOTA MINORITY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $133,500 · OtherMINNESOTA MINORITY JU…BLAINE POLICE EXPLORER POST 3939 — $129,700 · OtherBLAINE POLICE EXPLORE…NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDAT…At The Turn — $67,380 · OtherCUB FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherLake Street Council — $150,000 · OtherLake Street Council+17 more — $322,629 · Other+17 morePGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC — $660,000 · Recreation & SportsPGA TOUR FIRST T…TWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM — $281,750 · Recreation & SportsTWIN CITIES JUNI…WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD GOLF FOUND…NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $54,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $797,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CI…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $227,500 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS…BUSINESS OF CARING - THE LEHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · PhilanthropyBUSINESS OF CAR…+1 more — $12,500 · PhilanthropySCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $555,500 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES FILM FEST — $37,600 · Arts & CultureYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $270,000 · Human ServicesYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul — $250,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human Services+4 more — $27,500 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA SECTION PGA FOUNDATION — $273,500 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION MINNESOTA INC — $78,500 · EducationMILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 · Education+2 more — $12,500 · Education
Health$2,912,020Other$1,570,742Recreation & Sports$1,210,750Philanthropy$1,187,000Arts & Culture$593,100Human Services$567,500Education$388,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFairview Health Services — $2,625,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $797,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC — $660,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $555,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTWIN CITIES JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM — $281,750 over 5y, 13% of budgetMINNESOTA SECTION PGA FOUNDATION — $273,500 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $270,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM — $263,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $260,125 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul — $250,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $227,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVEAP Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLake Street Council — $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION MINNESOTA INC — $78,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAt The Turn — $67,380 over 3y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $54,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSPRING LAKE PARK FIRE DEPT INC — $46,060 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetATHLETES FOR MN KIDS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTWIN CITIES FILM FEST — $37,600 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetVETERANS MEMORIAL PARK OF BLAINE — $30,000 over 2y, 24% of budget3M FOUNDATION — $25,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMILITARY BOWL FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING — $21,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUNAR INC — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTB1 FUND INC — $16,020 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTONY FINAU FOUNDATION FKA FINAU YOUTH FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAMERON CHAMP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPGA TOUR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBolder Options — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRDIES 4 BRAINS MN INC — $7,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPGA TOUR WIVES ASSOCIATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOPEN ARMS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIn Sports Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSHS Athletics Booster Club — $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPUPPIES & GOLF INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE MAN UP CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Pga Tour IncSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Hubbard Broadcast…Fr Bigelow FoundationOtto Bremer TrustXcel Energy FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Pohlad Family Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…American Gift FundAllina Health System
The Minneapolis FoundationMN25.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Gift Fund · Allina Health System

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 3m Open Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pga Tour Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines