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Elmar Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.1MHealth$612kReligion$455kInternational$424kEducation$399kCrime & Legal$130kEnvironment$88kCivil Rights$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $633k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.7M
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION$2,474,952
MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION$270,000
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE$201,800
CHABAD OF CORONADO$200,000
THE PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION$73,800
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE$57,500
ISRAEL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER$25,000
MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$25,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH$25,000
MISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL$15,000
SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC$11,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL (JCRC)$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$10,000
TORAH ACADEMY$5,400
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 (FY21–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $500 → 17%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $2k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $2k → 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
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MO
MD
DC
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 31 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
35

Total granted

$7.3M
$232k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+4%

Still filing today

52%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HC
    HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +32% · 50% of their budget
  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +637%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $240k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • AG
    AMERICA GIVES ADOPT A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $60k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +57%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
3
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
4
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
5
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
6
The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal
7
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
8
American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion
9
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
10
Aish Minnesota

For education and outreach to members of the minnesota jewish community. we hope to make the minnesota jewish community grow in numbers and involvement. we want the jewish community in minnesota to learn about their rich culture and…

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11
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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12
Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines

The mission of the jewish federation of greater des moines is to further the continuity and welfare of the des moines, ames, and other central iowa jewish communities, and to enable these jewish communities to maximize their resources by…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation; the most unlike its peers is The Yaya Foundation for 4H Leukodystophy. 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

43 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. 43 of the 74 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION: $2,974,952 · OtherMAYO CLINIC FOUNDATIONBETH EL SYNAGOGUE: $613,200 · OtherBETH EL SYNAGOGUE+49 more: $535,300 · Other+49 moreHERZL CAMP FOUNDATION: $2,130,775 · ReligionHERZL CAMP FOUNDATIONCHABAD OF CORONADO: $204,300 · ReligionCHABAD OF CORONADO+1 more: $25,000 · ReligionMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $276,800 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $152,800 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $46,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $5,500 · PhilanthropyPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $287,500 · EducationAgamim Classical Academy: $120,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+4 more: $15,900 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $240,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $10,000 · International+1 more: $6,100 · InternationalNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $187,500 · Crime & LegalTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $75,180 · HealthMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthTHE YAYA FOUNDATION FOR 4H LEUKODYSTOPHY: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $180 · Health
Other$4,123,452Religion$2,360,075Philanthropy$481,100Education$448,400International$256,100Crime & Legal$187,500Health$160,360

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 budgetHERZL CAMP FOUNDATION: $2,130,775 over 6y, 50% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $287,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $276,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $240,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHABAD OF CORONADO: $204,300 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $187,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $152,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAgamim Classical Academy: $120,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $87,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $75,180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $46,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HILLEL: $21,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15,180 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YAYA FOUNDATION FOR 4H LEUKODYSTOPHY: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $6,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTANS AGAINST TERRORISM: $2,100 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSHOLOM FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR CHILDREN: $1,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG JUDAEA GLOBAL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebecca Lynn Cutler Legacy of Life Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER LAKE SYLVIA ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAUL'S PALS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT TWIN CITIES: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPBD RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $180 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.

  • Who funds HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD OF CORONADO ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Agamim Classical Academy ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
  • Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
  • Who funds THE YAYA FOUNDATION FOR 4H LEUKODYSTOPHY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗

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…Mike & Linda Fiterman…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Rum FundLynne & Andrew Redlea…Mark and Lisa Ratner …Marshall & Elaine Sie…Oren and Sharron Stei…Alex G & Mollie Tanke…Robert and Susan Diam…Beryl and Florence Mi…The Lynn and Gloria J…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN24.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Rum Fund · Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation · Mark and Lisa Ratner Family Foundation Inc · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation · Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family Foundation · Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation · Beryl and Florence Miller Family Foundation · The Lynn and Gloria Johnson Family 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 Elmar Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elmar Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Elmar Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Elmar 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 74 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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