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Duke and Lisa Uihlein Family Foundation at a glance

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Duke and Lisa Uihlein 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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$2.4MEnvironment$115kPhilanthropy$80kEducation$21kRecreation & Sports$13kYouth Development$6kReligion$3kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$39k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$2,000,000
STATE OF WISCONSIN NATURAL RESOURCES BOARD$100,000
LAKE MINNETONKA ASSOCIATION$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
CA
CO
MO
MD
FL
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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145k · 3 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$145k
$315k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth 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

  • BG
    BIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $80k · revenue +31%
  • SP
    STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • PS
    PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue -44%

Funded once

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $235k · revenue +48%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +40%
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
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
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
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
4
City of Hope National Medical Center

To make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. please see schedule o for a continuation of our mission.

Health
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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8
Medstar Health Research Institute Inc

See schedule omedstar health research institute is dedicated to supporting the academic platform of medstar health by conducting high quality translational and health sciences research throughout the medstar system.

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9
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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10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
12
Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute

Improve patient care and the health of our community through research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Lake Minnetonka Association. 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

17 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. 17 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $2,000,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICSTATE OF WISCONSIN NATURAL RESOURCES BOARD: $100,000 · Other+7 more: $43,500 · OtherEisenhower Medical Center: $235,000 · HealthEisenhower Med…STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50,000 · HealthSTEADMAN PHILI…MAYO CLINIC: $40,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC+2 more: $11,010 · HealthBIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $1,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationOSIRIS ORGANIZATION: $5,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationLake Minnetonka Association: $10,000 · EnvironmentSPIDER CHAIN OF LAKES ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $500 · Youth Development
Other$2,143,500Health$336,010Philanthropy$80,000Human Services$16,000Education$16,000Environment$15,000Recreation & Sports$2,500Youth Development$500

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 budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $235,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC: $80,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIVENESS PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLake Minnetonka Association: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSPIDER CHAIN OF LAKES ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSIRIS ORGANIZATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Duke and Lisa Uihlein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Duke and Lisa Uihlein 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Duke and Lisa Uihlein Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Duke and Lisa Uihlein Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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