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Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$1.4MEmployment$154kCommunity Improvement$79kHuman Services$64kEducation$54kCivil Rights$50kPhilanthropy$39kArts & Culture$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $354,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,569,261 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,214,461 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $193k
$15,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE$67,500
VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN$62,500
CHILDRENS DENTAL SERVICES$62,500
GREATER MSP$40,000
MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION$25,000
RAE MACKENZIE GROUP INC$19,000
CHILDRENS MN FOUNDATION$15,800
STATE OF MINNESOTA$15,000
HEMOPHILIA FDTN OF MN AND DAKOTAS$12,000
RONDALD MCDONALD HOUSE$11,000
WILSONS IMAGE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP$10,000
CHILDRENS THEATRE COMPANY$8,500
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$6,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $27k → 11%VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN: $63k → 14%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $21k → 11%Division of Indian Work: $6k → 11%Cyclehealth YMCA: $25k → 11%YWCA of Mpls: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 22 repeat orgs$490k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
24

Total granted

$1.4M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+11%

Still filing today

73%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PH
    PORTICO HEALTHNET
    5× · 2017–2022 · $294k · revenue +45%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $267k · revenue +2%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest
    7× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • MW
    MN Wild Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $34k
  • PW
    Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue -9%
  • MW
    MINNESOTA WILD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +134%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
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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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
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
5
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
6
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
7
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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8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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10
Glencoe Regional Health Services

Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…

Health
11
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
12
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wilsons Image College Scholarship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Support ServicesNative American Community S…Youth Support ServicesClean Energy AdvocacySocial Justice Legal Advoca…Affordable Housing Developm…Disability Services & Suppo…Professional Trade Associat…Community Health Care Provi…Education Funding & Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%42%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
3/54
the rest of the field
14%
2,166/15,486

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/46
Grantees still filing
26/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PORTICO HEALTHNET — $293,823 · HealthPORTICO HEALTHNETCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $267,025 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONRonald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest — $95,900 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities - Upper MidwestCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $62,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INCUPPER MIDWEST BLEEDING DISORDERS ALLIANC — $54,002 · HealthUPPER MIDWEST BLEEDING DISORDERS ALLIANCCONGENITAL HEART SURGEONS' SOCIETY — $50,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $34,400 · Health+10 more — $138,145 · Health+10 moreCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $109,400 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLWomen's Health Leadership Trust — $41,250 · OtherWomen's Health Leadership Trus…RAE MACKENZIE GROUP INC — $39,000 · OtherRAE MACKENZIE GROUP INCMN Wild Foundation — $34,000 · OtherMN Wild FoundationYMCA Greater Twin Cities — $30,250 · OtherYMCA Greater Twin CitiesCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK — $30,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEARTLINKIRELAND'S HOPE — $30,000 · OtherIRELAND'S HOPEPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $24,000 · OtherELEVEN FIFTEEN CLUB - WOMEN IN HEALTH CARE LEADERSHIP — $22,775 · OtherABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $20,075 · OtherMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Other+13 more — $125,573 · Other+13 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $95,700 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS …VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA — $62,500 · Human ServicesVIETNAMESE …Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc — $21,168 · Human ServicesPhyllis Whe…YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $8,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,500 · Human ServicesQUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE — $67,500 · Civil RightsMINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP — $50,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $6,000 · Community ImprovementPhillips West Neighborhood Organization — $5,200 · Community ImprovementAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $30,000 · EducationWilsons Image College Scholarship — $20,000 · EducationYouthprise — $7,000 · EducationTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $38,500 · Philanthropy
Health$995,795Other$531,323Human Services$192,868Civil Rights$67,500Community Improvement$61,200Education$57,000Philanthropy$38,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPORTICO HEALTHNET — $293,823 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $267,025 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest — $95,900 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $95,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE — $67,500 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA — $62,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $62,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUPPER MIDWEST BLEEDING DISORDERS ALLIANC — $54,002 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCONGENITAL HEART SURGEONS' SOCIETY — $50,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $38,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $34,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetELEVEN FIFTEEN CLUB - WOMEN IN HEALTH CARE LEADERSHIP — $22,775 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc — $21,168 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $20,695 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $20,075 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWilsons Image College Scholarship — $20,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation — $17,475 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA WILD FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFETAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE LOFT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW HEALTH MINNESOTA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONAL — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouthprise — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $6,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhillips West Neighborhood Organization — $5,200 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLATINOLEAD INC — $5,150 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…Allina Health SystemGreater Twin Cities U…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Women's Foundation of…Fr Bigelow FoundationMedica FoundationXcel Energy FoundationGroup Health Inc
The Minneapolis FoundationMN38.8× affinity20 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 · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Allina Health System · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Medica Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Group Health Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Children's Health Care funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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