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Bakken Family Wrc 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$269k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.1MReligion$1.4MCrime & Legal$449kHealth$387kYouth Development$290kEducation$270kHuman Services$155kPublic Safety & Disaster$142kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $661k
  • $250k+1 grant · $269k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAVEK MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING$268,600
THE BAKKEN MUSEUM$173,100
SHEPHERD OF THE LAKE LUTHERAN CHURCH$98,600
NORWAY HOUSE$91,100
FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH$85,000
ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION$55,000
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION$55,000
SOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE FOR BATTERED WOMEN$53,600
NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$50,000
ATTACH$25,000
GILLETTE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
DODOMA TANZANIA HEALTH DEVELOPMENT$25,000
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA$20,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$15,000
ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY OF CHAUTAUQUA$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 (FY20–24, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%WISHES AND MORE: $10k → 7%WISHES AND MORE: $5k → 7%RIVER VALLEY YMCA: $50k → 5%RIVER VALLEY YMCA: $25k → 5%RIVER VALLEY YMCA: $20k → 5%THE LINK: $20k → 11%THE LINK: $20k → 11%THE LINK: $20k → 11%THE LINK: $5k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $20k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $10k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $10k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $5k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 36 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
11

Total granted

$6.4M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+61%

Still filing today

78%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • PM
    PAVEK MUSEUM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +5% · 53% of their budget
  • TB
    THE BAKKEN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $753k · revenue +2%
  • NH
    Norway House
    6× · 2020–2025 · $731k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • JF
    JOBS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • PN
    PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +3%
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
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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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 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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4
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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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
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
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
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
9
Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota

Ignite the natural curiousity of every child through the power of play in a dynamic, awe-inspiring environment.

Arts & Culture
10
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
11
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
12
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Columbia Heights High School Alumni Scholarship 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

36 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. 36 of the 52 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
31/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAVEK MUSEUM: $1,398,600 · Arts & CulturePAVEK MUSEUMTHE BAKKEN: $753,100 · Arts & CultureTHE BAKKENNorway House: $730,600 · Arts & CultureNorway HouseATTACH: $145,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $65,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $702,000 · OtherFIRST LUTHERAN CHURCHSHEPHERD OF THE LAKE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $398,600 · OtherSHEPHERD OF THE LAKE LUTHERAN CHURCHSOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE: $233,600 · OtherSOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCENORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $225,000 · OtherNORTHERN STAR COUNCILTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $205,000 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATIONCOLUMBIA HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Other+23 more: $541,500 · Other+23 moreALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $175,000 · HealthGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $85,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $37,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthMITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW: $115,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $95,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas: $50,000 · EducationChildren First: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE LINK: $65,000 · Human ServicesCRESCENT COVE: $45,000 · Human ServicesWISHES & MORE: $15,000 · Human ServicesTANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $135,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $100,000 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$3,092,800Other$2,385,700Health$317,000Education$287,000Human Services$220,000International$135,000Crime & Legal$100,000

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 budgetPAVEK MUSEUM: $1,398,600 over 6y, 53% of budgetTHE BAKKEN: $753,100 over 6y, 10% of budgetNorway House: $730,600 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetSOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE: $233,600 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $225,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetATTACH: $145,500 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetTANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $135,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetMITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $100,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $85,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC: $75,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LINK: $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCRESCENT COVE: $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetECUMENICAL COMMUNITY OF CHAUTAUQUA INC: $45,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $37,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $34,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWISHES & MORE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOBS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetADOPT A HUSKY: $5,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HOPE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNDS VIEW SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,000 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 PAVEK MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE BAKKEN ↗
  • Who funds Norway House ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ATTACH ↗
  • Who funds TANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LINK ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
  • Who funds ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY OF CHAUTAUQUA INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Children First ↗
  • Who funds WISHES & MORE ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds JOBS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc ↗

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…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Richard M Schulze…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Mightycause Charitabl…United Way WorldwideThe Jamf Nation Globa…Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustThrivent Financial fo…The Blackbaud Giving …The Hubbard Broadcast…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN28.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Hubbard Broadcasting 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 Bakken Family Wrc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bakken Family Wrc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 Bakken Family Wrc Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bakken Family Wrc 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 52 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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