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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepher$25,000
Great Minnesota Schools$25,000
BBBS of the Twin Cities$20,000
Wallin Education Partners$16,000
Great Minnesota Schools$13,684
Unite America Institute$12,000
Constellation Fund$10,000
Genesys Works$10,000
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Jeremiah Program$10,000
Teach for America Twin Cities$10,000
Minneapolis Golf Foundation$10,000
The Special Operations Fund$7,500
Centro Tyrone Guzman$7,500
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 (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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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
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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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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2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

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3
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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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 99 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
36/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $8,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOME HOME COLLABORATIVE: $8,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetSCHS Academic Foundation: $8,000 over 5y, 3.7% 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 budgetPROJECT REDWOOD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLOSE GAPS BY 5: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $1,500 over 4y, 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 budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $950 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 CHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds WELCOME HOME COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SCHS Academic Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds EDINA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds TRANSPARENCY COALITION AI ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Julie & Doug Baker Jr…Otto Bremer TrustCiresi Walburn Founda…The Richard M Schulze…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The McKnight Foundati…John W Mooty Foundati…Wem FoundationMortenson Family Foun…Margaret a Cargill Fo…
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

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 Albright Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albright Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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, 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

    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 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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