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Astrup Family Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $377k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC | $85,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS | $63,958 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE UPPER MIDWEST | $50,000 |
| SEMESTER AT SEA - SHIPBOARD EDUCATION | $40,000 |
| PAY IT FORWARD INC | $25,000 |
| SOURCE MN INC | $25,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE FREE CLINIC | $25,000 |
| FARM IN THE DELL OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY | $25,000 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC | $20,000 |
| AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| KINDLY COMMUNITY FUND | $20,000 |
| ST DAVID'S CENTER CHILD & FAMILY DEVT | $18,200 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS SE MN CHAPTER | $17,350 |
| LE SUEUR BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC | $15,000 |
| LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 27 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2019–2025 · $271k · revenue +17%
- HCHealthFinders Collaborative Inc4× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +40%
- FIFARM IN THE DELL OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $65k
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +60%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICEone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
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…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
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.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
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…
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.
Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Therese and the most unlike its peers is A Great Day Farm. 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 133 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 BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HealthFinders Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds FARM IN THE DELL OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOURCE MN INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY GROWTH VENTURES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN OF WASECA ↗
- Who funds The Kindly Community Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LANDING MN ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KARL POTACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LE SUEUR BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY IS HAPPENING ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT THERESE ↗
- Who funds BENEDICTINE 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 · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Rochester Area Foundation · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mayo Clinic · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Graco 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 Astrup Family 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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