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Dovenberg 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.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$67kHuman Services$63kPhilanthropy$42kRecreation & Sports$26kEnvironment$17kHealth$11kArts & Culture$6kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$993k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Second Harvest Heartland$10,000
Toys for Tots$8,852
Nourish Bridgeport$5,000
Minnesota Public Radio$4,202
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation$2,500
Twin Cities PBS$2,000
Lake Minnetonka Garden Club$2,000
Southern CT Storm Special Hockey$1,750
Imara International$1,000
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp$529
Veterans Inc$510
Wakeman Boys and Girls Club$500
St Phillip the Deacon Lutheran Church$452
02The need
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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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 7%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: $1k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$256k · 15 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$256k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+16%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
Food & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    7× · 2019–2025 · $56k · revenue +71%
  • IO
    INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +43%
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • CF
    CONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COAST
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +291%
  • CC
    CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -76%
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
3
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
4
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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5
Minnesota Grocers Association

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…

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6
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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7
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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8
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
9
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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10
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
11
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
12
Milkweed Editions Inc

To identify, nurture and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp. 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

25 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. 25 of the 35 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $53,023 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSSOUTHERN CT STORM SPECIAL HOCKEY: $27,350 · OtherSOUTHERN CT STORM SPECIAL HOCKEYSALVATION ARMY: $8,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYIMARA INTERNATIONAL KRIS THORP: $4,291 · Other+17 more: $25,535 · Other+17 moreSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $55,900 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDEVERY MEAL: $12,000 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEAL+2 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $50,454 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS …CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $2,670 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyLAKE MINNETONKA GARDEN CLUB: $9,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $7,202 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $8,450 · ReligionAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,000 · Health
Other$118,199Food & Nutrition$69,900Philanthropy$54,124Environment$14,500Arts & Culture$12,202Religion$8,450Health$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $55,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $53,023 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $50,454 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE MINNETONKA GARDEN CLUB: $9,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $8,450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $7,202 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMARA INTERNATIONAL KRIS THORP: $4,291 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $2,670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDINOMIGHTS: $2,670 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $1,670 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $1,670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $529 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS INC: $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Xcel Energy FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The John J and Maryan…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…United Way WorldwideThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The John J and Maryanne T Mauriel Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Dovenberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dovenberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Nourish Bridgeport Inc: 19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 35 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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