· Private foundation
Ahmann Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SFM FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| SMALL SUMS | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OFMINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HOPE COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA | $15,000 |
| DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK MN | $12,000 |
| AMPERSAND FAMILIES | $10,000 |
| URBAN VENTURES | $10,000 |
| CORNERSTONE | $5,000 |
| COOKIE CART | $5,000 |
| APPETITE FOR CHANGE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -74% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 3 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAM9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +161%
- SFSFM FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +80%
- AHAT HOME GROUP9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MN DULUTH LSBE FUNDone grant, 2024 · $20k
- MVMinnesota Voiceone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -74%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
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…
Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.
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,…
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SFM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AT HOME GROUP ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ↗
- Who funds AMPERSAND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CHRESTOMATHY INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Voice ↗
- Who funds APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Music Community Trust ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: 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 Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Kopp Family Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Wca Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ahmann Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ahmann Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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