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B & H Way Foundation at a glance

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B & H Way 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.

$573k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$110k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$479kHealth$384kReligion$315kHousing & Shelter$220kHuman Services$205kEducation$155kRecreation & Sports$45kEnvironment$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $535k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTHLINK$110,000
YMCA OF THE NORTH$100,000
COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY FUND$50,000
INVEST IN KIDS$50,000
HAMMER RESIDENCES$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$18,250
COURTE OREILLES LAKE ASSOCIATION$15,000
THE GRIEF CLUB OF MINNESOTA$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $663k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%ECDC - AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 14%ECDC - AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 12%ECDC - AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 12%ECDC-AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 12%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $100k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES: $50k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES: $25k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $110k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $90k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $50k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $35k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $25k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $25k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $20k → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 12 repeat orgs$417k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$2.1M
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+3%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • Y
    YOUTHLINK
    7× · 2017–2025 · $355k · revenue +4%
  • COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES
    7× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +174%
  • II
    INVEST IN KIDS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $284k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • IO
    INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +58%
  • PN
    PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue +3%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR SPIRTUALITY AND HEALING
    one grant, 2018 · $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
Park Nicollet Health Services

Our mission is to improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community.

Health
3
Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital

Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.

Health
4
Fairview Health Services

Mission: Fairview is driven to heal, discover and educate for longer, healthier lives. Vision: Fairview is driving a healthier future. Values: Dignity: We value the uniqueness of each person and work to ensure everyone's right to privacy.…

Health
5
Lakes and Prairies Community Action Partnership Inc

Lakes & prairies community action partnership (caplp) is celebrating 60 years of providing services and working to achieve our mission to eliminate poverty by empowering families and engaging communities. our services are designed to…

Human Services
6
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
7
Group Health Inc

Our mission is to improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community.

Health
8
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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9
Presbyterian Retirement Communities Northwest

A faith-based non-profit organization that support communities and services committed to improving the lives of older adults by integrating housing, community services, technology, philanthropy, and partnerships.

Human Services
10
Healtheast Woodwinds Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
11
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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12
Healtheast St John's Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is The Boca Grande Preschool Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $300,000 · OtherCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIESINTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY FUND: $300,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY FUNDCYCLEHEALTH: $285,000 · OtherCYCLEHEALTHIndividual grant recipient: $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $110,000 · OtherST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC SCHOOLINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 · Other+10 more: $228,500 · Other+10 moreYOUTHLINK: $355,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINKETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNC…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIAT…Hammer Residences Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesHammer Residences Inc+1 more: $18,250 · Human ServicesINVEST IN KIDS: $284,013 · Youth DevelopmentINVEST IN KI…COURTE OREILLES LAKES ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentLAKE EFFECT CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · EnvironmentThe Boca Grande Preschool Inc: $25,000 · EducationTHE GRIEF CLUB OF MINNESOTA: $25,000 · HealthCOLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,448,500Human Services$663,250Youth Development$284,013Environment$55,000Education$25,000Health$25,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTHLINK: $355,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $300,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $284,013 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHammer Residences Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOURTE OREILLES LAKES ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $28,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARK NICOLLET GROUP RETURN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRIEF CLUB OF MINNESOTA: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $18,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE EFFECT CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 YOUTHLINK ↗
  • Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
  • Who funds ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds Hammer Residences Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds COURTE OREILLES LAKES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Boca Grande Preschool Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARK NICOLLET GROUP RETURN ↗
  • Who funds THE GRIEF CLUB OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds LAKE EFFECT CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 B & H Way Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B & H Way 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to B & H Way Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to B & H Way 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 28 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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