· Private foundation
Daniel Spiegel Family Foundation co Paul Swanson
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k13 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Minneapolis Heart Institute | $25,000 |
| Museum of Jewish Heritage | $15,000 |
| Torah Academy | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Center for American Experiment | $10,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $5,000 |
| Beth El | $5,000 |
| Bais Yisroel | $4,000 |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Montanta | $1,800 |
| Minneapolis Jewish Federation | $1,800 |
| Twin Cities PBS | $1,000 |
| Animal Humane Society | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Minneapolis Community Fund | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
43 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 10 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCenter of the American Experiment5× · 2017–2022 · $71k · revenue +105%
- MOMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST2× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +1%
- BCBAIS CHANA WOMEN INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +59%
Funded once
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +68%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $4k
- LSLeukemia Societyone grant, 2022 · $3k
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 purpose of the society is to promote the vitality and continuity of jewish culture in the upper midwest through preservation, interpretation and education.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
As the voice of the jewish community, to protect jewish interests & promote jewish ideals.
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
(see on schedule o)
The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 82 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.
- Who funds Center of the American Experiment ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds BAIS CHANA WOMEN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AISH MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds The Minnesota Opera ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Minneapolis Jewish Federation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Ks Family Foundation · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · Tamar Fink Family Foundation · The Lynn and Gloria Johnson Family Foundation · Allan and Margaret Moore Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Beryl and Florence Miller Family Foundation · The Z S & M Wilf Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Daniel Spiegel Family Foundation co Paul Swanson funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel Spiegel Family Foundation co Paul Swanson. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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