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Athwin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$284k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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$656kHuman Services$426kHousing & Shelter$350kHealth$275kEducation$271kEnvironment$263kAnimals$145kYouth Development$131kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $182k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $102k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANTUS$20,000
SOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER$16,000
WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER$15,000
THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP$15,000
FAMILY PROIMISE OF ANOKA CTY$13,000
LAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL$12,000
YOUNG DANCE$11,000
PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$8,000
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY$8,000
THE ALIVENESS PROJECT$7,000
MY VERY OWN BED$7,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$7,000
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS CENTER$7,000
THE OPEN DOOR PANTRY$6,000
ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $472k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% 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 PROIMISE OF ANOKA CTY: $13k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF ANOKA COUNTY: $12k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF ANOKA COUNTY: $12k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF ANOKA COUNTY: $10k → 7%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS CENTER: $7k → 11%FAMILY PROIMISE OF ANOKA CTY: $14k → 7%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS CENTER: $7k → 11%FAMILY PROIMISE OF ANOKA CTY: $13k → 7%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS CENTER: $7k → 11%FAMILY PROIMISE OF ANOKA CTY: $13k → 7%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS CENTER: $7k → 11%FAMILY PROIMISE OF ANOKA CTY: $13k → 7%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS CENTER: $7k → 11%FAMILY PROIMISE OF ANOKA CTY: $30k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS PATHWAYS: $10k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS PATHWAYS: $10k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS PATHWAYS: $10k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $5k → 11%REDEEMER CENTER FOR LIFE: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $6k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $6k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $6k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $5k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $5k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $5k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $5k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $5k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%CHANGE INC: $5k → 14%CHANGE INC: $5k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS CENTER: $12k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $7k → 11%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $5k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $5k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $5k → 11%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $5k → 11%FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 11%FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $10k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 62 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
17

Total granted

$2.7M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
0%

Still filing today

76%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WR
    WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +133%
  • TF
    The Family Partnership
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +24%
  • C
    CANTUS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $134k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +39%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
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
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
2
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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3
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
4
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
5
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
6
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
7
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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8
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
9
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
10
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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11
Minnesota Chapter of the National Childrens Alliance

The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.

Crime & Legal
12
Reach for Resources Inc

Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bountifield International. 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

57 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. 57 of the 79 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
34/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL: $101,000 · OtherCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAULHAVEN HOUSING: $101,000 · OtherHAVEN HOUSINGCANTUS MALE VOCAL ENSEMBLE: $65,000 · OtherCANTUS MALE VOCAL ENSEMBLENATURE CONSERVANCY THE: $65,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY THEPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $61,500 · OtherALIVENESS PROJECT INC: $40,000 · OtherTHE OPEN DOOR PANTRY: $39,000 · OtherMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $76,000 · OtherMINNESOTA LAND TRUSTWashburn Center for Children: $71,000 · OtherWashburn Center for ChildrenMy Very Own Bed: $49,000 · Other+36 more: $487,250 · Other+36 moreCANTUS: $134,000 · Arts & CultureCANTUSLAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL: $104,000 · Arts & CultureLAKES AREA MUSIC FES…MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $82,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL…YOUNG DANCE INC: $73,500 · Arts & CultureYOUNG DANCE INCAMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $54,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS F…MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureMACPHAIL CENTER FOR …+4 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe Family Partnership: $145,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Partners…Family Promise in Anoka County: $129,500 · Human ServicesFamily Promise in A…GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $65,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS…CRESCENT COVE: $40,000 · Human ServicesCRESCENT COVEPATHWAYS NORTH: $30,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS NORTHDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $27,000 · Human ServicesDIVISION OF INDIAN …THE TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Human Services+2 more: $18,000 · Human ServicesWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $145,000 · AnimalsGREAT RIVER GREENING: $40,000 · AnimalsHILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY: $59,000 · EducationYouthprise: $38,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER: $17,000 · EducationGROVES ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationCIVIC CAUCUS: $12,500 · EducationMINNDEPENDENT: $8,000 · EducationCUYUNA RANGE YOUTH CENTER INC: $67,000 · Youth DevelopmentAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE REEL HOPE PROJECT: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER: $131,000 · Crime & LegalMediation Services For Anoka County: $11,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,155,750Arts & Culture$503,500Human Services$471,500Animals$185,000Education$179,500Youth Development$143,500Crime & Legal$142,000

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 budgetWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $145,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $145,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCANTUS: $134,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER: $131,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetFamily Promise in Anoka County: $129,500 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetLAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL: $104,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL: $101,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN HOUSING: $101,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $82,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $76,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG DANCE INC: $73,500 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $71,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCUYUNA RANGE YOUTH CENTER INC: $67,000 over 9y, 15% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $65,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $61,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY: $59,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $54,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $52,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMy Very Own Bed: $49,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCRESCENT COVE: $40,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetALIVENESS PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING: $40,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $38,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYouthprise: $38,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $36,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $35,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $27,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE REEL HOPE PROJECT: $24,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER: $17,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBOUNTIFIELD INTERNATIONAL: $16,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGROVES ACADEMY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROSE ENSEMBLE: $14,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHANGE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC CAUCUS: $12,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetMobile Hope: $12,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMediation Services For Anoka County: $11,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMINNDEPENDENT: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHANGING GAITS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRedeemer Center for Life Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
  • Who funds CANTUS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Family Promise in Anoka County ↗
  • Who funds LAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG DANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
  • Who funds CUYUNA RANGE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM ↗
  • Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds My Very Own Bed ↗
  • Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
  • Who funds ALIVENESS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Youthprise ↗
  • Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS NORTH ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK ↗
  • Who funds THE REEL HOPE PROJECT ↗

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…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…Fr Bigelow FoundationPatrick and Aimee But…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Mardag FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN62.1× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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 Athwin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Athwin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 79 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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