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Bergerson Family Foundation at a glance

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Bergerson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$955kHousing & Shelter$495kHealth$445kEmployment$305kFood & Nutrition$155kInternational$125kPhilanthropy$113kEducation$104kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$78k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP$25,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING$25,000
EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES$20,000
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA$20,000
CLUES (HISPANIC COMMUNITY CENTER)$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$10,000
TWIN CITIES RISE$10,000
WALK-IN COUNSELING CENTER$10,000
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE$5,000
MIGIZI$5,000
BRIDGE FOR YOUTH$5,000
RISE - REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD$5,000
ST PAUL YOUTH SERVICES$5,000
FACE TO FACE$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 (FY19–24, $1.4M) 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%FACE TO FACE: $5k → 14%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $100k → 11%FACE TO FACE: $5k → 14%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $100k → 11%FACE TO FACE: $5k → 14%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $100k → 11%FACE TO FACE: $5k → 14%FACE TO FACE: $5k → 14%FACE TO FACE: $5k → 14%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $25k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $25k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $25k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $35k → 14%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $35k → 14%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $35k → 14%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 14%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 14%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 14%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $75k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $25k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $5k → 11%LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $10k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $85k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $60k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $60k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $25k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $20k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 27 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
10

Total granted

$2.9M
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-10%

Still filing today

63%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • PF
    PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $375k · revenue +36%
  • TC
    Twin Cities Rise
    6× · 2019–2024 · $305k · revenue +20%
  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • GF
    GATES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $81k · revenue +38%
  • GP
    GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue -88%
  • FC
    Friends & Co
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · 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.

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 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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2
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
3
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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4
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

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

Philanthropy
5
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
6
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
7
African Development Center

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

Human Services
8
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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9
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

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,…

Philanthropy
10
Veap Inc

VEAP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, multi-service, human service organization with the mission of "Together, we create pathways to stronger, more hopeful, communities through access to healthy food, housing stability and supportive services."

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11
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
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 The Family Partnership; the most unlike its peers is Gates 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

26 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. 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Family Partnership: $375,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PartnershipPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $375,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INCEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $270,000 · Human ServicesEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INCINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $165,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTAAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $155,000 · Human ServicesAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC+3 more: $70,000 · Human ServicesWASHBURN MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $265,000 · OtherWASHBURN MENTAL HEALTH CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCLUES (HISPANIC COMMUNITY CENTER): $135,000 · OtherCLUES (HISPANIC COMMUNITY CENTER)PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $110,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMIGIZI: $45,000 · OtherHEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $35,000 · OtherWALK-IN COUNSELING CENTER INC: $60,000 · OtherWALK-IN COUNSELING CENTER INC+17 more: $110,720 · Other+17 moreTwin Cities Rise: $305,000 · EmploymentTwin Cities…ONE ACRE FUND: $125,000 · InternationalGATES FOUNDATION: $80,622 · PhilanthropyGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $28,014 · PhilanthropyBreck School: $97,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $90,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,410,000Other$975,720Employment$305,000International$125,000Philanthropy$108,636Education$98,500Housing & Shelter$90,000

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 budgetThe Family Partnership: $375,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $375,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $305,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $270,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $165,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $155,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBreck School: $97,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGATES FOUNDATION: $80,622 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALK-IN COUNSELING CENTER INC: $60,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetHEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $28,014 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Community Development Institute: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST PAUL YOUTH SERVICES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends & Co: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetONEGOAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $200 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 The Family Partnership ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
  • Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Breck School ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds GATES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WALK-IN COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc ↗
  • Who funds GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds Native American Community Development Institute ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
  • Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
  • Who funds Friends & Co ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds FRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustTarget FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…YouthpriseGreater Twin Cities U…Mortenson Family Foun…Headwaters Foundation…The K FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN31.7× affinity14 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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Target Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Youthprise · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mortenson Family Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The K Foundation · Pohlad Family 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 Bergerson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bergerson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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