· Private foundation
Beaverdale 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $45,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $25,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $25,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TV | $15,000 |
| WGBH (BOSTON PUBLIC TELEVISION) | $15,000 |
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| WETA (DC PUBLIC TELEVISION) | $15,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| WTTW (CHICAGO PUBLIC TELEVISION) | $15,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY - MN ND & SD | $15,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASH DC | $10,000 |
| ZAHARA KATHAWALLA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +40%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +140%- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SPSAINT PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $20k
- TITHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -21%
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.
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…
Engaging the community to end hunger
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
End hunger together.
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 40 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 THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
- Who funds ZAHARA KATHAWALLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL STUDENT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Trout Unlimited ↗
- Who funds THOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREEN DOOR ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mithun Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Beaverdale Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beaverdale Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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