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Allina Health Foundation

ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION is dedicated to raising philanthropic support to advance the mission of allina health to serve our communities by providing exceptional care, as we prevent illness, restore health and provide comfort to all who entrust us with their care.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$9.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$71MRecreation & Sports$449kInternational$24kReligion$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$5k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $22,720,866, the rows itemized in this filing. The $23,596,856 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $875,990 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $502k
  • $250k+7 grants · $22M
$249,298
Median grant
2
States reached
$277M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM$9,926,989
ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM$8,976,539
ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM$855,722
ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM$703,125
ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM$696,082
ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM$670,301
ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM$300,000
HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$249,298
MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$130,435
ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM$64,135
ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM$58,139
TRUE FRIENDS$42,470
COMMON HOPE$23,631
CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$15,000
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH$9,000
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 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION - NORTHLAND ADAPTIVE RECREATION: $352k → 15%HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $249k → 14%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $10.4M → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $9.9M → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $9.9M → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $9.0M → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $8.2M → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $4.9M → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $2.3M → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.8M → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.5M → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA ALLINA HOME CARE HOPSICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $967k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $856k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA ALLINA HOME CARE HOPSICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $757k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $728k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $703k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $696k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $670k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA ALLINA HOME CARE HOPSICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $577k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA BUFFALO HOSPITAL: $558k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $544k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA ALLINA HOME CARE HOPSICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $532k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA ALLINA HOME CARE HOPSICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $417k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA PENNY GEORGE INSTITUTE HEALTH & HEALING: $357k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA PENNY GEORGE INSTITUTE HEALTH & HEALING: $356k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA NEW ULM MEDICAL CENTER: $352k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA NEW ULM MEDICAL CENTER: $341k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $329k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA BUFFALO HOSPITAL: $320k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $300k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA CAMBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTER: $259k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA NEW ULM MEDICAL CENTER: $237k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA PENNY GEORGE INSTITUTE HEALTH & HEALING: $226k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA NEW ULM MEDICAL CENTER: $218k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA NEW ULM MEDICAL CENTER: $178k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA PENNY GEORGE INSTITUTE HEALTH & HEALING: $134k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $130k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA BUFFALO HOSPITAL: $118k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA CAMBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTER: $117k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA OWATONNA HOSPITAL: $101k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA BUFFALO HOSPITAL: $99k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA PENNY GEORGE INSTITUTE HEALTH & HEALING: $96k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA RIVER FALLS AREA HOSPITAL: $95k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA CAMBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTER: $85k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA OWATONNA HOSPITAL: $85k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA CAMBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTER: $77k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA RIVER FALLS AREA HOSPITAL: $68k → 11%ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM DBA CAMBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTER: $68k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$71M · 5 repeat orgs$643k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$71M
$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+185%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $273k 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
HealthRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • AH
    ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $71M · revenue +39%
  • MH
    MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +105%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $37k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • MF
    MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $352k · revenue +82%
  • FC
    FREE CLINIC OF PIERCE AND ST CROIX COUNTIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +185%
  • LA
    LAFAYETTE AMBULANCE SERVICE
    one grant, 2018 · $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.

1
Minnesota Hospital Foundation

The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.

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2
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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3
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
4
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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6
Multicare South King Health Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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7
Prisma Health Medical Group-Midlands

Inspire health. serve with compassion. be the difference.

Education
8
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
9
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

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10
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
11
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
12
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Common Hope. 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, 2017–2025.

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. 8 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $70,707,357 · HealthALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM+5 more: $831,842 · HealthTRUE FRIENDS: $97,297 · Recreation & SportsCOMMON HOPE: $23,631 · InternationalIMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $18,500 · OtherLAFAYETTE AMBULANCE SERVICE: $5,000 · Other
Health$71,539,199Recreation & Sports$97,297International$23,631Other$23,500

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 budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $70,707,357 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $351,640 over 1y, 16% of budgetHELEN HAYES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $249,298 over 1y, 90% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $180,435 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $97,297 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON HOPE: $23,631 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF PIERCE AND ST CROIX COUNTIES INC: $13,469 over 1y, 8.1% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 10 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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