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Ciresi Walburn Foundation at a glance

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Ciresi Walburn Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$515k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$10MHuman Services$1.8MCommunity Improvement$633kCrime & Legal$550kArts & Culture$345kYouth Development$175kEmployment$50kReligion$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $515k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$515,000
SERVE MINNESOTA$150,000
WAY TO GROW$135,000
ED ALLIES$100,000
SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC$100,000
NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS$100,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$75,000
DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY$75,000
PRODEO ACADEMY$75,000
MIGIZI$75,000
ASCENSION CHURCH AND SCHOOL$75,000
GLOBAL ACADEMY$75,000
Individual grant recipient$70,000
GREATER MN SCHOOLS$60,000
CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY$50,000
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 (FY19–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%YWCA DULUTH: $30k → 15%YWCA DULUTH: $30k → 15%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $32k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THINK SMALL: $75k → 14%THINK SMALL: $75k → 14%THINK SMALL: $50k → 14%THINK SMALL: $50k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $175k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $135k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $135k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $125k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $125k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $125k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $125k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $75k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 39 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
23

Total granted

$12M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

74%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +17%
  • WT
    WAY TO GROW
    7× · 2019–2025 · $945k · revenue +0%
  • EA
    Ed Allies
    7× · 2019–2025 · $850k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • MC
    MINNESOTA COMEBACK
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • HA
    HIAWATHA ACADEMIES
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • HP
    HOPKINS PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
Level Up Academy

By tapping the intrinsic motivation and curiosity of every child, we deliver higher than usual growth.

Education
2
College Prep Elementary

To prepare scholars to build character and accept of the value of various cultures

Education
3
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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4
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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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
Friends School of Minnesota

To prepare children to embrace life, learning, and community with hope, skill, understanding and creativity. we are committed to the quaker values of peace, justice, simplicity and integrity.

Education
7
Minnesota State Council On Economic Education

Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…

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8
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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9
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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10
Math & Science Academy

We provide accelerated curricula in all subjects with an emphasis on math and science.

Education
11
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
12
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Mn Schools; the most unlike its peers is One2One. 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

52 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. 52 of the 70 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
29/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND: $1,322,563 · EducationMINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUNDUniversity of St Thomas: $1,178,500 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasEd Allies: $850,000 · EducationEd AlliesSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $750,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OICGLOBAL ACADEMY: $426,000 · EducationGLOBAL ACADEMYPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213: $376,000 · EducationMinnesota Parent Union: $310,000 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $275,000 · Education+22 more: $1,948,443 · Education+22 moreASCENSION CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $650,000 · OtherASCENSION CHURCH AND SCHOOLCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $425,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHO…MONTESORI CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $230,000 · OtherMONTESORI CENTER OF MINNESO…CLOSE GAPS BY 5: $225,000 · OtherCLOSE GAPS BY 5NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $200,000 · OtherNORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLSST PAUL PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD CO AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $175,000 · OtherRISEN CHRIST SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MPLS: $125,000 · Other+21 more: $1,112,500 · Other+21 moreWAY TO GROW: $945,000 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROWThink Small: $250,000 · Human ServicesThink SmallAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $212,259 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WI…YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $75,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH: $60,000 · Human ServicesSERVEMINNESOTA: $450,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $550,000 · Crime & LegalChildren's Theatre Company and School: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPAS INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Youth Development
Education$7,436,506Other$3,292,500Human Services$1,542,259Community Improvement$575,000Crime & Legal$550,000Arts & Culture$275,000Youth Development$80,000

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 budgetMINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND: $1,322,563 over 5y, 25% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $1,178,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAY TO GROW: $945,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetEd Allies: $850,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $750,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $550,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA: $450,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL ACADEMY: $426,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213: $376,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMinnesota Parent Union: $310,000 over 4y, 59% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $275,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetThink Small: $250,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLOSE GAPS BY 5: $225,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ACADEMY OF THE ARTS: $225,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $220,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $215,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $212,259 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGROVES ACADEMY: $148,968 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTNTP INC: $145,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ MINNESOTA: $110,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $104,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMINNESOTA COMEBACK: $100,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetHIAWATHA ACADEMIES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHENNEPIN SCHOOLS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPAS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE FREE LIBRARY: $70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH: $60,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREVE ACADEMY: $50,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetLINK Public School: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAIM HIGHER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF EDUCATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetElevating Education MN: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNortheast College Prep Charter School No 4219: $40,475 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED: $40,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA: $40,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetJOYCE PRESCHOOL: $35,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetVENTURE ACADEMIES: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCHARTERSOURCE: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOne2One: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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 MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds Ed Allies ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Parent Union ↗
  • Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Think Small ↗
  • Who funds CLOSE GAPS BY 5 ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP ACADEMY OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
  • Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds TNTP INC ↗
  • Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA COMEBACK ↗
  • Who funds HIAWATHA ACADEMIES ↗
  • Who funds HENNEPIN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMPAS 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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Sauer Family Foun…Otto Bremer TrustWem FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Mortenson Family Foun…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…The Sheltering Arms F…Mightycause Charitabl…John and Denise Grave…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN55.5× affinity31 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 · The Sauer Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Wem Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · John and Denise Graves 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 Ciresi Walburn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ciresi Walburn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 70 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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