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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $354,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,569,261 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,214,461 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
CHILDRENS DENTAL SERVICES$62,500
VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN$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
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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 (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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

+17%
+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

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HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • 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%
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
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
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
3
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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4
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
5
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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6
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
7
Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance

The minnesota community health worker alliance builds community and systems capacity for better health through the integration of community health worker (chw) strategies. our vision is equitable and optimal outcomes for all communities.…

Health
8
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
9
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
10
Open Cities Health Center Inc

Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Health
11
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
12
Swedish Covenant Health

Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 54 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/46
Grantees still filing
27/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCONGENITAL HEART SURGEONS' SOCIETY: $50,000 over 3y, 1.9% 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 budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL 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 budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOFT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFETAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOW HEALTH MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

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.

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

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 Children's Health Care funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children's Health Care. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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 54 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 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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