· Private foundation
Engler 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $55,000 |
| RECLAIM | $45,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE MPLS | $40,000 |
| TASKS UNLIMITED | $40,000 |
| TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH | $40,000 |
| PEOPLE INCORPORATED | $40,000 |
| THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $40,000 |
| NAMI - MN | $35,000 |
| JUXTAPOSITION ARTS | $35,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Engler Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +15%
- WCWashburn Center for Children5× · 2021–2025 · $175k · revenue +31%
- PIPEOPLE INCORPORATED4× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- MJMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k
- DFDogs For Our Brave Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +59%
- PIPEOPLE INCORPORATDone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
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.
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…
Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
Affirming human rights to reproductive health and freedom.
To amplify the voices of those with lived experience, support adoptive, foster, and kinship families, educate child welfare professionals, and champion the well-being of children and families. whether you are seeking guidance or working to…
To strengthen minnesota through high-impact service.
The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…
To transform systems, structures and public narratives to advance race equity and excellence in education.
Advocating change together's (act) mission is to advance "self advocacy" which, as its name suggests, engages people with developmental disabilities to be in charge of their own decisions and to speak for themselves. act describes…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 49 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 MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds RECLAIM ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
- Who funds JUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dogs For Our Brave Inc ↗
- Who funds NAMI MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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.
Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Medica Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Bentson Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Engler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Engler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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