· Private foundation
Coborn Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $513k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| COLLEGE OF ST BENS AND ST JOHNS | $63,000 |
| COLLEGE OF ST JOHNS | $50,000 |
| GREAT RIVER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| CATHEDRAL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PAY IT FORWARD | $10,000 |
| SAINT JOHN'S BOYS CHOIR | $5,000 |
| EXCELLENCE IN HEALTHCARE EDUCATION AND CHILDREN'S FUNDS | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against -37% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GRGREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM3× · 2021–2025 · $430k · revenue +159%
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND3× · 2018–2020 · $100k · revenue +81%
- SJSAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR4× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- CHCENTRACARE HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $200k
- SCST CLOUD AREA YMCAone grant, 2017 · $200k
- COCOLLEGE OF ST BENEDICT UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $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.
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.
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
To support ridgecrest regional hospital
Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
We, sartori health care foundation and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. sartori health care foundation is a member of trinity health.
St. Luke's Health Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established to develop philanthropic resources that support St. Luke's mission "To improve the health of people in the communities we serve." We're responsible for cultivating…
The foundation is dedicated to improving the care and comfort of patients at st. luke community hospital.
Engaging the community to end hunger
The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…
Mission: to support a healthier community through partnerships, educational programming, and support for organic farmers and local food producers.vision: to grow a just, local, sustainable food system by sharing resources and collaborating…
The mission of the minneapolis regional chamber development foundation is to offer innovative ways of reducing unemployment, improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth, initiate and conduct leadership development programs…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Communitygiving · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Morgan Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Coborn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coborn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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