· Private foundation
Engelsma 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 $10k30 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $332k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YouthLink | $50,250 |
| PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC | $36,000 |
| FRASER | $29,000 |
| DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | $26,000 |
| Childrens Health Care Foundation | $25,000 |
| GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY | $25,000 |
| Regions Hospital Foundation | $25,000 |
| N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC | $20,000 |
| FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING | $15,000 |
| Childrens Theater Company & School | $15,000 |
| Washburn Center for Children | $15,000 |
| Pinky Swear Foundation | $15,000 |
| WILDFLYER COFFEE | $11,000 |
| Layla Julien Foundation | $10,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $809k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
75 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 13 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFRASER9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +51%
- SASUMMIT ACADEMY OIC9× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +39%
- UVURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- MPMN PEACEBUILDING LEADERSHIP INSTone grant, 2019 · $33k
- AGASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MN Fone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FHFairview Health Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +38%
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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 foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
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.
How this is measured
149 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. 149 of the 171 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 FRASER ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds AT HOME GROUP ↗
- Who funds Wildflyer Coffee ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF CHARITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAYLA JULIEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE TIME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds JACKS CAREGIVER COALITION ↗
- Who funds Fairview Health Services ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA INDEPENDENCE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Karen Wyckoff Rein in Sarcoma ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHEAST FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Wem Foundation · Target Foundation · The K Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Engelsma Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Engelsma Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc: 10% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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