· Community foundation
Communitygiving
To engage people, connect resources, and build community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k112 grants · $777k
- $10k–50k235 grants · $4.8M
- $50k–250k69 grants · $7.2M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT | $680,477 |
| GREAT RIVER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $529,194 |
| CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $473,571 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD | $378,607 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA | $372,055 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA | $363,794 |
| TVS MINISTRIES | $300,000 |
| THE REGENERATION CENTER | $281,000 |
| ST CLOUD AREA FAMILY YMCA | $276,024 |
| CITY OF ALBANY | $250,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL - SAUK CENTRE | $240,000 |
| GREAT THEATRE | $236,983 |
| CITY OF ST CLOUD | $233,000 |
| KANDIYOHI COUNTY AREA FAMILY YMCA | $224,056 |
| CITIZENS COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM | $215,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $8.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
525 repeat relationships: 312 still active in FY2025, 213 since wound down; 82 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA9× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +44%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +59%
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- RORIVER OF LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GODone grant, 2022 · $2.5M
- CCCROWN COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $506k · revenue +4%
- MSMACCRAY SCHOOL DISTRICT #2180one grant, 2018 · $370k
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 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…
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
How this is measured
632 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. 632 of the 985 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds Mankato Area Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ROCORI COMMUNITY BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 742 LOCAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Cloud Area Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE REGENERATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUIET OAKS ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING AREA BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds KANDIYOHI COUNTY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds WACOSA ↗
- Who funds OASIS WORLD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN ↗
- Who funds TVS Ministries 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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Central Minnesota · Morgan Family Foundation · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Central Minnesota Arts Board · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Initiative Foundation · Ja Wedum Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Communitygiving funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Communitygiving. Bigger dots raise more.
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