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Andersen Corporate Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k55 grants · $258k
- $10k–50k96 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $585k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity Inc | $250,000 |
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $100,000 |
| ST CROIX VALLEY FOODBANK INC | $75,000 |
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $60,000 |
| Northern Star Council Boy Scouts of America | $50,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys | $50,000 |
| Tubman | $50,000 |
| YMCA of the North | $50,000 |
| American Red Cross - Minnesota and Dakotas Region | $50,000 |
| St Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity | $50,000 |
| Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity | $50,000 |
| Allina Health Foundation | $45,000 |
| FamilyMeans | $45,000 |
| Solid Ground | $35,000 |
| Lakeview Health Foundation | $32,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Andersen Corporate Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
152 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $419k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY4× · 2021–2024 · $900k · revenue +33%
- SMSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +51%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH5× · 2020–2024 · $405k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- YFYELLOWSTONE FOREVERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +192%
- GTGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -26%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $53k · revenue -40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
Engaging the community to end hunger
End hunger together.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
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…
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
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.
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Thomas E & Edna D Carpenter Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
281 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 281 of the 320 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BAYPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THREAD ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CANVAS HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds THOMAS E & EDNA D CARPENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds TWO RIVERS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Target Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Allina Health System
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 Andersen Corporate 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.
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.
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