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Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Fdn at a glance

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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.

$325k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.5MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$150kYouth Development$65kEducation$32kReligion$26kInternational$15kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $270k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$30,000
THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
GILLETTE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$15,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE$15,000
THE SCHUBERT CLUB$15,000
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA$12,500
THE MINNESOTA OPERA$12,500
AMERICAN CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF$10,000
MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES$10,000
THE ARTS PARTNERSHIP$10,000
MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC$10,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES$10,000
BACH SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA$10,000
SAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$10,000
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MINNESOTA RECOVERY CONNECTION: $5k → 14%LIFELINE PILOTS: $5k → 14%OPEN ARMS: $10k → 11%ACCORD: $15k → 11%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $18k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $18k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $15k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $15k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION TWIN CITIES: $10k → 14%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 40 repeat orgs$329k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
26

Total granted

$2.4M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+24%

Still filing today

78%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • SC
    SCHUBERT CLUB THE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +66%
  • GC
    Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +51%
  • WW
    WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +882%

Funded once

  • OC
    OPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • UH
    UNITED HOSPITAL FDN ALLINA HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • A
    ACCORD
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -6%
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
San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Nielsen Chorale
Arts & Culture
3
Minnesota Brass Inc

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.

Education
4
Mirandola Ensemble

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Minnesota Bach Ensemble

Work to create a diverse and stable early music scene in the minneapolis-st paul minnesota based area.

Arts & Culture
6
Magnum Chorum

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Minnesota Symphonic Winds Inc

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.

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8
Singers Minnesota Choral Artists

The Singers serve as artists educators and ambassadors of the choral art. Primary activities are performances educational outreach and recording.

Arts & Culture
9
Sounds of Blackness

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Guthrie Theater Foundation

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,…

Arts & Culture
11
Theater Latte Da

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Lyric Opera of the North

Present opera performances in duluth, minnesota and bring opera to schools in minnesota and wisconsin.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Orchestral Association; 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.
04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
34/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIGHT & HEARING ASSOCIATION: $140,000 · OtherSIGHT & HEARING ASSOCIATIONWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $120,000 · OtherWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMYUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $120,000 · OtherUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONGREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $81,000 · OtherGREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIESVISION LOSS RESOURCES INC: $80,000 · OtherVISION LOSS RESOURCES INCOUR LADY OF PEACE HOME: $70,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF PEACE HOMEMINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $57,000 · OtherHEALTHEAST FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY OF: $50,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $42,500 · Other+18 more: $236,150 · Other+18 moreSCHUBERT CLUB THE: $170,000 · Arts & CultureSCHUBERT CLUB THETHE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSICMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSICFRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIA: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIACANTUS: $74,500 · Arts & CultureCANTUSOPERATUNITY THEATRE: $65,000 · Arts & CultureOPERATUNITY THEATREARTARIA: $63,000 · Arts & CultureARTARIAMINNESOTA BOYCHOIR: $62,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA BOYCHOIRMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATIONThe Minnesota Opera: $53,500 · Arts & CultureVOCALESSENCE: $43,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUSICATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $157,500 · Arts & Culture+16 moreREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $280,000 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDAT…Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $140,000 · HealthGillette Children's Hosp…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSO…CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE F…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC: $50,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF M…OPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER INC: $25,000 · Health+3 more: $26,000 · HealthOUR LADY OF PEACE: $65,000 · Human ServicesACCORD: $15,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLIFELINE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMinnesota Recovery Connection: $5,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EducationHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 · InternationalANGEL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,101,650Arts & Culture$1,078,500Health$636,000Human Services$110,000Education$22,000International$15,000Philanthropy$3,000

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 budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $280,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSCHUBERT CLUB THE: $170,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $140,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSIGHT & HEARING ASSOCIATION: $140,000 over 9y, 37% of budgetWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $120,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTHE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $90,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $85,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $81,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetVISION LOSS RESOURCES INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIA: $75,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetCANTUS: $74,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetOPERATUNITY THEATRE: $65,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE: $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetARTARIA: $63,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetMINNESOTA BOYCHOIR: $62,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $57,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetHEALTHEAST FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $53,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetVOCALESSENCE: $43,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUSICATION: $40,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $23,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROSE ENSEMBLE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMINNESOTA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $17,500 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetACCORD: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAN OPERA THEATRE: $12,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetSKYLARK OPERA: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBACH SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arts Partnership: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCERENITY SENIOR CARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT PAUL BALLET: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTWIN CITIES GAY MEN'S CHORUS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMINNESOTA CHORALE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF MN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFELINE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMINNESOTA FRINGE FESTIVAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 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 ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Hardenbergh FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationFred C and Katherine …Mightycause Charitabl…William Boss Foundati…The Minneapolis Found…Hrk FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustEdwards Memorial TrustXcel Energy Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN47.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 76 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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