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Dellwood Foundation Inc

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.

$472k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
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.

Arts & Culture$783kPhilanthropy$405kHealth$325kEnvironment$320kAnimals$228kEducation$100kHuman Services$89kYouth Development$61kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $223k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $167k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION$60,000
MAYO FOUNDATION$57,000
ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING$50,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$40,000
THE ARTS PARTNERSHIP$32,000
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA$10,000
CHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY--MINNESOTA CHAPT$7,000
MINNESOTA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$7,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS$7,000
MINNESOTA OPERA$7,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE TWIN CITIE$7,000
MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION$7,000
ST PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$7,000
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, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%THE RETREAT: $5k → 7%THE RETREAT: $5k → 7%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $3k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $3k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $3k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $3k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $2k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $4k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $4k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $4k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY & FAMILY SERVICE: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOT: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY & FAMILY SERVICE: $3k → 14%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 67 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
8

Total granted

$2.2M
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

64%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TA
    The Arts Partnership
    7× · 2019–2025 · $140k · revenue +22%
  • MC
    Minnesota Children's Museum
    7× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +42%
  • CF
    COMO FRIENDS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • LP
    LAKESHORE PLAYERS THEATRE
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES--ST PAUL & MPLS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • WB
    WHITE BEAR LAKE RESTORATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
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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2
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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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
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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5
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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6
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
7
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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8
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
9
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
10
Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota

Ignite the natural curiousity of every child through the power of play in a dynamic, awe-inspiring environment.

Arts & Culture
11
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
12
Minneapolis Parks Foundation

The Minneapolis Parks Foundation transforms human lives through parks and public spaces by aligning philanthropic investment and community vision.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the most unlike its peers is Big Ideas Inc. 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

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 81 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
33/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO FOUNDATION: $190,000 · OtherMAYO FOUNDATIONBELL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $118,000 · OtherBELL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING: $100,000 · OtherORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMINGTHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER: $76,000 · OtherTHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTERTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $40,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY - MINNESOTA CHAPTER: $35,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Other+34 more: $359,000 · Other+34 moreThe Arts Partnership: $140,000 · Arts & CultureThe Arts PartnershipMinnesota Children's Museum: $65,000 · Arts & CultureMinnesota Children's MuseumSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $59,500 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTAORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $42,000 · Arts & CultureORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORM…MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE A…MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETYThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $40,000 · Arts & CultureThe Saint Paul Chamber Orches…The Minnesota Opera: $40,000 · Arts & CultureThe Minnesota OperaMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $31,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Theatre Company and School: $26,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $71,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $265,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN …+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $33,000 · HealthHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $33,000 · HealthNORTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $26,000 · HealthALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthTHE VALOR COALITION: $6,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $6,000 · HealthCOMO FRIENDS: $49,000 · AnimalsMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $40,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 · AnimalsMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $16,500 · EnvironmentVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $15,500 · EnvironmentWHITE BEAR LAKE RESTORATION ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentKINNICKINNIC RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentMOUNDS PARK ACADEMY: $26,000 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $26,000 · EducationST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $26,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Education
Other$1,003,000Arts & Culture$620,500Philanthropy$270,000Health$171,000Animals$109,500Environment$91,500Education$84,500

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 budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $265,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arts Partnership: $140,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER: $76,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMinnesota Children's Museum: $65,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $59,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMO FRIENDS: $49,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $42,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $33,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $31,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $26,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNDS PARK ACADEMY: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: $26,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SQUARE THEATRE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $16,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSCHUBERT CLUB THE: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $11,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRetreat Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBESTPREP: $7,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINNICKINNIC RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG IDEAS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIn Sports Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE VALOR COALITION: $6,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% 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 GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds The Arts Partnership ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
  • Who funds LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds COMO FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
  • Who funds The Minnesota Opera ↗
  • Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MOUNDS PARK ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PARK SQUARE THEATRE ↗

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Hardenbergh FoundationFred C and Katherine …William Boss Foundati…The Hubbard Broadcast…Hrk FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…The K FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustFleetwood Foundation
Xcel Energy FoundationMN40.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · William Boss Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hrk Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The K Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fleetwood 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 Dellwood Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dellwood Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 81 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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