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Albright Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$663kHuman Services$145kReligion$134kPhilanthropy$94kCommunity Improvement$80kPublic Benefit$68kEmployment$43kRecreation & Sports$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k62 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $182k
$500
Median grant
13
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Great Minnesota Schools$25,000
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepher$25,000
BBBS of the Twin Cities$20,000
Wallin Education Partners$16,000
Great Minnesota Schools$13,684
Unite America Institute$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Genesys Works$10,000
Constellation Fund$10,000
Minneapolis Golf Foundation$10,000
Teach for America Twin Cities$10,000
Jeremiah Program$10,000
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery$10,000
Centro Tyrone Guzman$7,500
The Special Operations Fund$7,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $25k → 11%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $23k → 11%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $18k → 11%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $10k → 11%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $5k → 11%Lutheran Social Services: $500 → 14%Lutheran Social Services: $500 → 14%Lutheran Social Services: $500 → 14%Lutheran Social Services: $500 → 14%Lutheran Social Services: $400 → 14%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $10k → 11%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $8k → 11%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $8k → 11%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $5k → 11%Community Emergency Services: $500 → 11%Community Emergency Services: $250 → 11%Community Emergency Services: $250 → 11%Community Emergency Services: $250 → 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

NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
TN
DC
TX

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 75 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

75 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
14

Total granted

$1.3M
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • GM
    GREAT MN SCHOOLS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $314k · revenue +30%
  • WE
    WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $99k · revenue +19%
  • GM
    GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MA
    MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +145%
  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • WS
    Wildflower Schools
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

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
Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

3
Minnesota Medical Association

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

4
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…

5
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
6
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

7
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
8
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

9
Minnesota State Council On Economic Education

Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…

10
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

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

Philanthropy
11
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
12
Minnesota Comeback

Driven by an unwavering moral imperative that every child, regardless of its race, income or zip code, deserves the same high-quality education, mn comeback has become a growing movement of philanthropists, community leaders and education…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%6%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr18%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%3%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%50%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr18%7%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/69
the rest of the field
10%
3,828/38,920

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

63 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 99 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
35/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREAT MN SCHOOLS — $313,714 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLSWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $98,612 · EducationWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERSSpecial Operations Fund — $30,000 · EducationSpecial Operations FundBreakthrough Twin Cities — $25,000 · Education+13 more — $93,508 · Education+13 moreLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD — $121,769 · OtherLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDBBBS of the Twin Cities — $59,776 · OtherBBBS of the Twin CitiesGenesys Works — $42,500 · OtherGenesys WorksIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMinneapolis Golf Foundation — $25,000 · OtherPage Foundation — $25,000 · OtherTeach for America Twin Cities — $25,000 · Other+53 more — $155,708 · Other+53 moreGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $80,117 · Human ServicesGREATER MI…CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $30,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO TYR…Think Small — $10,500 · Human ServicesThink Smal…+2 more — $3,650 · Human ServicesTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $50,340 · PhilanthropyThe Constellation Fund — $32,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $7,500 · Philanthropy+3 more — $7,000 · PhilanthropyUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC — $52,004 · Public BenefitJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $8,333 · Housing & ShelterWELCOME HOME COLLABORATIVE — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING IN ACTION INC — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,500 · InternationalGLOBAL MINNESOTA — $2,000 · InternationalALIGHT — $1,500 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $1,174 · International+1 more — $250 · International
Education$560,834Other$494,753Human Services$124,267Philanthropy$97,340Public Benefit$52,004Housing & Shelter$28,333International$10,424

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS — $313,714 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $98,612 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $80,117 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC — $52,004 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $50,340 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Constellation Fund — $32,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSpecial Operations Fund — $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities — $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEd Allies — $18,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHARTERSOURCE — $18,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetUPTURNSHIPS INC — $17,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $16,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINK Public School — $15,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThink Small — $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $8,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHS Academic Foundation — $8,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetWELCOME HOME COLLABORATIVE — $8,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEDINA EDUCATION FUND — $6,750 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTRANSPARENCY COALITION AI — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT REDWOOD — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLOSE GAPS BY 5 — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEdina Basketball Association — $2,433 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $2,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL MINNESOTA — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING IN ACTION INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST — $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $1,174 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society — $950 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS
  • Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY
  • Who funds UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Constellation Fund
  • Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN
  • Who funds Special Operations Fund
  • Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities
  • Who funds Ed Allies
  • Who funds CHARTERSOURCE
  • Who funds UPTURNSHIPS INC
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
  • Who funds LINK Public School
  • Who funds Think Small
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC
  • Who funds SCHS Academic Foundation
  • Who funds WELCOME HOME COLLABORATIVE
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE
  • Who funds EDINA EDUCATION FUND
  • Who funds TRANSPARENCY COALITION AI

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 FoundationMN42.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Ciresi Walburn Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · John W Mooty Foundation Trust · Wem Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill 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 Albright 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    16report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Albright Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Albright 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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