· Private foundation
Dorothy M and E Milton Kleven 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST OLAF COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| NORMANDALE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $16,500 |
| PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| JOSIAH VENTURE | $7,000 |
| MARIE SANDVIK CENTER INC | $5,500 |
| APPLE TREE DENTAL | $5,000 |
| TC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE | $5,000 |
| NORWAY HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SHARING AND CARING HANDS | $5,000 |
| EVERY MEAL | $5,000 |
| METRO HOPE MINISTRIES | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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
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 +53% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOST OLAF COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +56%
- AUAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +30%
- PRPEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- CCITYJOYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MAMINNEHAHA ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +50%
- LCLUTHER COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -2%
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
End hunger together.
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…
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 53 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 ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds METRO HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds APPLE TREE DENTAL ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA SYMPHONIC WINDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Norway House ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds EDITHS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COCO'S HEART DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
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 · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Assurant Foundation · American Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dorothy M and E Milton Kleven Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy M and E Milton Kleven Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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