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Birmingham-Dorsey Char Tr at a glance

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Birmingham-Dorsey Char Tr

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.

$116k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$442kFood & Nutrition$284kHousing & Shelter$202kPhilanthropy$53kReligion$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$34kHealth$29kCommunity Improvement$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$20,000
MICROGRANTS$12,500
THE FOOD GROUP$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIESDOROTHY DAY CNTR$10,000
FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF$8,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$8,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$8,000
SOLID GROUND$8,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL$8,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE HOME$5,000
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION$5,000
MY VERY OWN BED$4,500
URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$3,000
UPLIFT NORTH$3,000
ARC OF GREATER TWIN CITIES$3,000
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 (FY17–25, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $5k → 6%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $5k → 6%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $5k → 6%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $8k → 6%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $3k → 6%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $6k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $5k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $10k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL: $20k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $10k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $10k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL: $20k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $10k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL: $20k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MPLSST PAUL: $3k → 11%SOLID GROUND: $8k → 14%NATIONAL ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $3k → 11%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL: $20k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE MINNEAPOLIS: $3k → 11%SOLID GROUND: $8k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL: $15k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $5k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL: $13k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL: $10k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL: $8k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%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.
$1.1M · 21 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
4

Total granted

$1.1M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+246%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyInternationalYouth DevelopmentHousing & 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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +96%
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $126k · revenue +57%
  • SG
    Solid Ground
    7× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +349%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +246%
  • PH
    PRESBYTERIAN HOMES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Tc Food Justice

Tc food justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in minneapolis, mn. since march 2016 we have been working with co-ops, grocery stores, and farmers markets to redistribute their unsellable foods to local hunger relief…

Food & Nutrition
2
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
3
Second Harvest Northland

End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.

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4
The Good Acre

We connect and strengthen farmers, food makers, and communities through good food. the good acre is the largest nonprofit food hub in minnesota. we play a critical role in creating market access for farmers in our region. for 2023, with…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Humanity Alliance

The Humanity Alliance is a Minnesota-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that aspires to create long-lasting community value. Our initial focus is on providing improved access to nutrition for those who are food insecure... restoring love and…

Community Improvement
6
Hunger Solutions Minnesota

Hunger solutions minnesota is a comprehensive hunger relief organization that works to end hunger in minnesota. we take action to assure food security for all minnesotans by supporting programs and agencies that provide food to those in…

Food & Nutrition
7
Hilltop Regional Kitchen

Serve fresh and frozen meals to seniors, disabled and homebound individuals in central MN. Over 60,000 meals served annually to over 400 individuals.

Food & Nutrition
8
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

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9
Heavens Table Food Shelf

Provide food for hungry individuals in martin county, mn

Food & Nutrition
10
Family Pathways

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.

Human Services
11
Urban Triage Incorporated

Urban triage transforms culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future.

Philanthropy
12
Fargo Union Mission

A faith-based emergency shelter and crisis response ministry aimed at meeting the basic needs of food, shelter and clothing and transforming lives through the love of Jesus. Our mission is to serve people who are on the journey from…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Group Minnesota Inc the; the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone. 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

15 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. 15 of the 26 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES-DOROTHY DAY CNTR: $150,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES-DOROTHY DAY CNTRSALVATION ARMY: $79,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYOUR LADY OF PEACE HOME: $70,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF PEACE HOMECATHOLIC CHARITIES: $30,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES: $29,000 · OtherTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIESTHE SALVATION ARMY: $28,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $21,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $20,000 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS DE SALES OF SAINT PAUL: $18,500 · Other+5 more: $38,000 · Other+5 moreUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $125,500 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATI…Solid Ground: $60,500 · Human ServicesSolid GroundPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATIONFRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $38,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELFSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC+1 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $190,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $55,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC…MICROGRANTS: $53,000 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $34,000 · InternationalMy Very Own Bed: $10,500 · Housing & ShelterCORNERSTONE: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$484,000Human Services$298,500Food & Nutrition$245,000Philanthropy$53,000International$34,000Housing & Shelter$10,500Youth Development$2,500

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 budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $190,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $125,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSolid Ground: $60,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $55,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMICROGRANTS: $53,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $38,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $34,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES: $29,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMy Very Own Bed: $10,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUPLIFT NORTH: $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCORNERSTONE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% 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 SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
  • Who funds Solid Ground ↗
  • Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
  • Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds My Very Own Bed ↗
  • Who funds UPLIFT NORTH ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE ↗

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.

Edina Realty Foundati…The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Edina Realty FoundationMN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edina Realty Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Birmingham-Dorsey Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Birmingham-Dorsey Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 26 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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