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Ellie Holden Foundation at a glance

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Ellie Holden 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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$36kYouth Development$36kReligion$36kPhilanthropy$15kInternational$13kHuman Services$13kAnimals$11kEducation$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$478k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Youth Frontiers$4,000
Wayzata Community Church$4,000
CommonBond Communities$3,000
Can Do Canines$3,000
Dad's of Down Syndrome$3,000
Everytown for Gun Safety$2,000
Play Equity Fund$2,000
The Bond Between$2,000
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, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Youth Frontiers: $12k → 11%Youth Frontiers: $5k → 11%Youth Frontiers: $5k → 11%Youth Frontiers: $5k → 11%Youth Frontiers: $5k → 11%Youth Frontiers: $4k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 89% of Ellie Holden Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 11%.

Ellie Holden Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$161k · 9 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$161k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • YF
    YOUTH FRONTIERS INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue -25%
  • WC
    Wayzata Community Church
    6× · 2019–2025 · $36k
  • AA
    AKTIV AGAINST CANCER INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue -11%

Funded once

  • HA
    HOPE ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +240%
  • PM
    PROTECT MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
  • HC
    Highpoint Center for Printmaking
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Citizens for a Safer Minnesota

Primary Exempt Purpose- Protect Minnesota Advocacy fund supports the mission of Protect Minnesota to prevent gun violence through legislative actions community education and fudn development.

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2
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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3
Opportunity Partners

Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…

Employment
4
Minnesota Alliance On Crime

The minnesota alliance on crime connects systems, service providers, and victims to advance the response for victims of all crime.

Human Services
5
Minnesota Comeback

Driven by an unwavering moral imperative that every child, regardless of its race, income or zip code, deserves the same high-quality education, mn comeback has become a growing movement of philanthropists, community leaders and education…

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6
Chicago Blend Group Inc

Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Community Improvement
7
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
8
Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota

The citizens utility board (cub) of minnesota champions affordable, reliable, safe, and clean home energy for all minnesotans.

Civil Rights
9
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
10
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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11
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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12
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is Aktiv Against Cancer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wayzata Community Church: $36,000 · OtherWayzata Community ChurchGilda's Club: $15,500 · OtherGilda's ClubINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $12,500 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSCAN DO CANINES: $8,500 · OtherCAN DO CANINESCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $7,500 · OtherCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIESDADS OF DOWN SYNDROME INC: $3,000 · Other+2 more: $3,000 · OtherYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INCAKTIV AGAINST CANCER INC: $17,500 · HealthAKTIV AGAIN…The Constellation Fund: $15,000 · PhilanthropyThe Const…OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $12,500 · InternationalHOPE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · EducationPROTECT MINNESOTA: $3,750 · EducationTHE PLAY EQUITY FUND: $2,000 · EducationTHE BOND BETWEEN: $2,000 · Animals
Other$86,000Human Services$36,000Health$17,500Philanthropy$15,000International$12,500Education$10,750Animals$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAKTIV AGAINST CANCER INC: $17,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetThe Constellation Fund: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROTECT MINNESOTA: $3,750 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BOND BETWEEN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHighpoint Center for Printmaking: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mightycause Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Ellie Holden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellie Holden 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 16 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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