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Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund at a glance

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Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$511k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.6MHealth$592kArts & Culture$300kEnvironment$270kScience & Tech$175kInternational$130kHuman Services$107kHousing & Shelter$78kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$50,000
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$50,000
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$35,000
WEST DENMARK LUTHERAN CHURCH$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL$10,000
INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF POLK$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
KINSHIP OF POLK COUNTY$10,000
NORTHWOODS HOMELESS SHELTERS$10,000
WASHINGTON APPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS (ALLV)$5,000
LUCK ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC$1,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF POLK COUNTY: $12k → 9%INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF POLK: $10k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
WI
NY
NV
IA
VA
MD
SC
DC
HI
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Albert Victor Ravenholt Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 13 repeat orgs$563k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$2.8M
$453k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+29%

Still filing today

69%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +87%
  • TD
    THE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM
    5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +11%
  • KO
    KINSHIP OF POLK COUNTY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • WF
    WSU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $175k
  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE HUMAN & NAT RESOURCES
    one grant, 2024 · $90k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH AND POLICY AT UNIVERSITY OF MINN
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
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.

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Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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2
Sauk Prairie Healthcare Inc

Extraordinary healthcare from the heart - one person at a time.vision: we will set the standard for community-based healthcare that improves the health and quality of life of the people we serve.

Health
3
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
6
Unity Healthcare Foundation

To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.

Philanthropy
7
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…

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8
Minnesota Medical Association

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

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9
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
10
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
11
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.

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12
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ruby's Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,505,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Education+1 more: $8,000 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY ELSON S FLOYD COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $500,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY ELSON S FLO…WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE HUMAN AND NATURAL RESOU: $180,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF …WSU FOUNDATION: $175,000 · OtherWSU FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE HUMAN & NAT RESOURCES: $90,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF …UNITED PIONEER HOME INC: $47,500 · OtherCENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH AND POLICY AT UNIVERSITY OF MINN: $40,000 · Other+11 more: $142,000 · Other+11 moreTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DANIS…LUCK AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLUCK AREA…ASHOKA: $100,000 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalKINSHIP OF POLK COUNTY: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $25,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH TASK FORCE OF POLK COUNTY: $12,000 · HealthMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $5,000 · HealthWASHINGTON APPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,598,000Other$1,174,500Arts & Culture$295,000International$150,000Youth Development$80,000Health$52,000Philanthropy$50,000

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: $1,505,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM: $250,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetASHOKA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKINSHIP OF POLK COUNTY: $80,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetUNITED PIONEER HOME INC: $47,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUCK AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $45,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetWASHINGTON APPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH CAREGIVER OF POLK COUNTY INC: $22,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWOODS HOMELESS SHELTERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRuby's Heart: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH TASK FORCE OF POLK COUNTY: $12,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetNORTH LAND MUNICIPAL AMBULANCE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCK ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Otto Bremer TrustHugh J Andersen Found…Fred C and Katherine …St Croix Valley Found…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Otto Bremer TrustMN18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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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How do I get to Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund?

Find your warmest path to Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund 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 34 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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