· Private foundation
Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Fdn
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACE | $15,000 |
| THE SCHUBERT CLUB | $15,000 |
| THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| GILLETTE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| THE MINNESOTA OPERA | $12,500 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA | $12,500 |
| SIGHT & HEARING ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA CHORALE | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| CANTUS | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- SCSCHUBERT CLUB THE9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +66%
- GCGillette Children's Hospital Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +51%
- WWWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +882%
Funded once
- OCOPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -14%
- UHUNITED HOSPITAL FDN ALLINA HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $20k
- AACCORDone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -6%
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.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Minnesota Brass shares a unique passion for the live performing arts by producing ensembles and events that challenge our members to reach their full potential while inspiring our audiences.
The Mirandola Ensemble performs Renissance-era choral music and educates school-age and other audiences on vocal performance technique, music as 'high art' in the Western tradition, and the aesthetics of the Renaissance. The ensemble is…
Work to create a diverse and stable early music scene in the minneapolis-st paul minnesota based area.
High quality performances of sacred choral music in beautiful venues that transform listeners in concert and worship and nurture a deeper connection with God and one another.
Provide enriched musical experience to the Twin Cities area and to enable musical opportunities for adults in the metropolitan-area for both musicians and audiences.
The Singers serve as artists educators and ambassadors of the choral art. Primary activities are performances educational outreach and recording.
To bring the enjoyment of Black Music and its history to the public, and help develop young people so they can perform and enjoy its heritage.
The guthrie theater engages exceptional theater artists in the exploration of both classic and contemporary plays, connecting the community we serve to one another and to the world. through its extraordinary artists, staff and facility,…
The mission of theater latte' da is to create new connections between story, music, artist and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater.
Present opera performances in duluth, minnesota and bring opera to schools in minnesota and wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Orchestral Association and the most unlike its peers is Angel Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 76 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
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 REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHUBERT CLUB THE ↗
- Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIGHT & HEARING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
- Who funds VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIA ↗
- Who funds CANTUS ↗
- Who funds OPERATUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds ARTARIA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA BOYCHOIR ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
- Who funds HEALTHEAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Minnesota Opera ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds VOCALESSENCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUSICATION ↗
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds OPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ACCORD ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · William Boss Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hrk Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Edwards Memorial Trust · Xcel Energy 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 Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Fdn 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.