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Advocates for Better Health - the Foundation

Abh | the foundation is a physician-led philanthropic organization that strives to improve the health and well-being of the community through strategic initiatives.

$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$566k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$17,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC$17,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NORTH METRO PEDIATRICS: $5k → 7%PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC: $20k → 11%HOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $7k → 14%NORTH METRO PEDIATRICS: $5k → 7%PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC: $20k → 11%MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC: $18k → 11%MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC: $17k → 11%MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC: $17k → 11%MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%STEVE RUMMLER HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC CO UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $16k → 11%ROUNDTABLERX: $20k → 11%ROUNDTABLERX: $7k → 11%PHYSICIANS SERVING PHYSICIANS: $5k → 11%END IN MIND PROJECT: $314k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$235k · 5 repeat orgs$331k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +200% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$235k
$331k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+200%
+30%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCivil RightsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $107k · revenue +111%
  • MM
    MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $63k · revenue +834%
  • MM
    MINNESOTA MEDICATION REPOSITORY PROGRAM DBA ROUNDTABLERX
    2× · 2021–2022 · $27k · revenue +200%

Funded once

  • EI
    End In Mind Project
    one grant, 2018 · $314k · revenue -69%
  • HD
    HOPE DENTAL CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -99%
  • PS
    PHYSICIANS SERVING PHYSICIANSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +30%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
2
Physicians for a National Health Program Minnesota

Physicians for a National Health Program is a non-profit research & education organization of physicians, medical students & health professionals who support single-payer national health insurance.

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3
Minnesota Association of Geriatrics Inspired Clinicians
Health
4
Mental Health Resources Inc

The mission of mental health resources is to foster hope, health and recovery for people affected by mental illness and substance use disorder.

—
5
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
6
Minnesota Wellness Publications Inc

Wellness Publications

Education
7
Healtheast Woodwinds Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
8
Minnesota Bridge to Freedom
Health
9
Fairview Health Services

Mission: Fairview is driven to heal, discover and educate for longer, healthier lives. Vision: Fairview is driving a healthier future. Values: Dignity: We value the uniqueness of each person and work to ensure everyone's right to privacy.…

Health
10
Range Regional Health Services

Range Regional Health Services is an integrated health care system meeting the needs of our patients in an exemplary manner.

Health
11
Minnesota Pharmacists Association

Serving minnesota pharmacists to advance patient care.

—
12
Healtheast St John's Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Metro Pediatrics Pa; the most unlike its peers is Hope Dental Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

End In Mind Project: $313,660 · Civil RightsEnd In Mind ProjectUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $107,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESO…MINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $62,500 · HealthMINNESOTA MENTAL H…MINNESOTA MEDICATION REPOSITORY PROGRAM DBA ROUNDTABLERX: $27,000 · HealthMINNESOTA MEDICATI…Steve Rummler Hope Network: $5,000 · HealthUNIVERITY OF MINNESOTA: $28,900 · OtherUNIVERITY …NORTH METRO PEDIATRICS PA: $10,000 · OtherNORTH METR…HOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $6,500 · OtherHOPE DENTA…PHYSICIANS SERVING PHYSICIANS: $5,390 · OtherPHYSICIANS…
Civil Rights$313,660Education$107,000Health$94,500Other$50,790

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $107,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $62,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetMINNESOTA MEDICATION REPOSITORY PROGRAM DBA ROUNDTABLERX: $27,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetNORTH METRO PEDIATRICS PA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSteve Rummler Hope Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Advocates for Better Health - the Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Advocates for Better Health - the Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Advocates for Better Health - the Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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