· Private foundation
BCBSM Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k46 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way Worldwide | $236,710 |
| Native American Community Clinic | $200,000 |
| Northwest Indian Community Development Center | $200,000 |
| Way to Grow | $150,000 |
| Northfield Healthy Community Initiative | $125,000 |
| Partnership Academy | $125,000 |
| Hmong American Partnership | $110,000 |
| Northland Foundation | $100,000 |
| Northwest Minnesota Foundation | $100,000 |
| St David's Center | $100,000 |
| Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota | $100,000 |
| Project Motherpath Inc | $100,000 |
| CAPI USA | $100,000 |
| Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio | $100,000 |
| Apple Tree Dental | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
81 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $489k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MLMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE6× · 2019–2024 · $950k · revenue +53%
- VFVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE6× · 2019–2024 · $777k · revenue +13%
- NFNORTHLAND FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $740k · revenue +221%
Funded once
- HAHmong American Partners (for Navigator Coalition)one grant, 2023 · $120k
- SDSt David's Center (for MN Coalition for Family Home Visiting)one grant, 2023 · $100k
- ACAFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -15%
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.
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.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
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…
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.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
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…
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.
How this is measured
99 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. 99 of the 133 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTICO HEALTHNET ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds Coalition of Asian American Leaders ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA UNITED ↗
- Who funds Think Small ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FINE ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Advocates For Human Rights ↗
- Who funds LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds Partnership Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds SEWA-AIFW ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization BCBSM Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from BCBSM Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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