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Api Group Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$1.1MYouth Development$524kEducation$379kCommunity Improvement$179kHousing & Shelter$145kPhilanthropy$134kHuman Services$132kFood & Nutrition$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $92k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $575k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$80,000
STUDIO-180$50,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$30,000
SECOND HARVEST NORTHLAND$25,000
TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$25,000
MINNESOTA TECH FOR SUCCESS$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$25,000
US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$25,000
NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS$25,000
SUMMIT ACADEMY$25,000
NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK$25,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$25,000
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 (FY21–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%FAMILY CANCER NETWORK: $15k → 10%HEALING WARRIORS PROGRAM: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $25k → 11%DAMIANO OF DULUTH: $10k → 15%SOLID GROUND: $15k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $10k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $5k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION TWIN CITIES: $10k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION TWIN CITIES: $10k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $5k → 11%AVIVO: $10k → 11%AVIVO: $10k → 11%AVIVO: $5k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $25k → 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

MN
WI
MA
IA
CA
CO
GA
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 30 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
28

Total granted

$1.9M
$707k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+35%

Still filing today

93%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $324k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +5%
  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    2× · 2023–2024 · $130k · revenue +12%
  • WC
    Washburn Center for Children
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -52%
  • EH
    ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +36%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
8
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
9
Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota

Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…

Employment
10
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
11
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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12
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
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 Kraus Anderson Community 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

59 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. 59 of the 86 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
36/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $600,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATIONWashburn Center for Children: $75,000 · HealthWashburn Center for ChildrenAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $72,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC+6 more: $103,750 · Health+6 moreTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $65,000 · OtherTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITYNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $50,000 · OtherNORTHERN STAR COUNCILJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $50,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $45,000 · OtherMissions Inc Programs: $40,000 · OtherSTUDIO-180: $100,000 · OtherSTUDIO-180SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $35,000 · Other+43 more: $524,009 · Other+43 moreJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $250,000 · InternationalJUNIOR AC…University of St Thomas: $130,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCommunity Partners with Youth: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONSTRUCTION CAREERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $10,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $8,800 · Youth DevelopmentSolid Ground: $30,000 · Human ServicesAVIVO: $25,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $25,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $25,000 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CANCER NETWORK INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $124,561 · PhilanthropyASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $4,000 · Philanthropy
Health$1,050,750Other$909,009International$250,000Education$230,000Youth Development$163,800Human Services$160,000Philanthropy$134,561

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $124,561 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDIO-180: $100,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $72,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Partners with Youth: $70,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMissions Inc Programs: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONSTRUCTION CAREERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSolid Ground: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVIVO: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN ROOTS MN: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Northland: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget23RD VETERAN: $20,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERHOUSE: $17,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY CANCER NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMO FRIENDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAHTOMEDI AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEXUS FAMILY HEALING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACER CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe Walser FoundationThe Hubbard Broadcast…Medica FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Andersen Corporate Fo…The Richard M Schulze…The Graco Foundation
Otto Bremer TrustMN51.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Walser Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Medica Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Graco 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 Api Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Api Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%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
    1get no government money at all
    24report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Api Group Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Api Group 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 86 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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