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Felhaber Larson Fenlon & Vogt Foundation at a glance

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Felhaber Larson Fenlon & Vogt 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.

$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$312kCrime & Legal$131kHuman Services$112kEducation$110kArts & Culture$81kPhilanthropy$73kHousing & Shelter$63kReligion$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$2,300
Median grant
4
States reached
$461
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFFINITY PLUS FOUNDATION$15,000
ESSENTIA HEALTH-FARGO FOUNDATION$10,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN$10,000
NORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$7,500
HOUSING FIRST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$5,000
WINONA HEALTH FOUNDATION$4,000
SAINT THERESE FOUNDATION$3,750
PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION$3,500
VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK$3,000
ECUMEN$2,500
HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP$2,500
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN$2,500
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION$2,500
GUARDIAN ANGELS SENIOR SERVICES$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CANVAS HEALTH: $500 → 6%CUSTOM ONE CHARITIES: $1k → 6%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $13k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $13k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $10k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $10k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $8k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $8k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $8k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $8k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $5k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $3k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%YOUTHLINK: $1k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $1k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $1k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%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

ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
OH
MO
VA
TN
DC
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$836k · 56 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
46

Total granted

$836k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+33%

Still filing today

68%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NM
    NORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +94%
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +85%
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID
    7× · 2017–2023 · $81k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • HF
    HEALTHEAST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • AH
    ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • PH
    Pool & Hot Tub Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · 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
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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2
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
3
Minnesota Hospital Foundation

The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.

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4
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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5
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

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.

Health
6
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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7
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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8
Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc

We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.

Health
9
Riverview Healthcare Association

We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…

Health
10
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
11
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
12
Olmsted Medical Center

Partnering for better health and better lives.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omc Regional Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Smacna College of Fellows. 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

75 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. 75 of the 115 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/75
Grantees still filing
50/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherNORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONSAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $59,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRAUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $46,500 · OtherUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONSMACNA COLLEGE OF FELLOWS: $45,525 · OtherSMACNA COLLEGE OF FELLOWSCHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $42,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $32,000 · OtherHOUSING FIRST MINNESOTA CONSORTIUM: $28,250 · OtherHEALTHEAST FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+62 more: $249,600 · Other+62 moreLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $82,500 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN S…YOUTHLINK: $3,450 · Human Services+4 more: $5,500 · Human Services+4 moreHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $19,000 · HealthHAZELDEN B…REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,250 · HealthREGIONS HO…ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthESSENTIA H…Winona Health Foundation: $9,500 · HealthWinona Hea…OSCEOLA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · HealthOSCEOLA CO…LAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM: $5,700 · HealthLAKEWOOD H…ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $5,000 · HealthALLINA HEA…+11 more: $17,725 · Health+11 moreTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID: $81,235 · Crime & LegalTHE FUND …+1 more: $500 · Crime & LegalTHE AFFINITY PLUS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $36,500 · EducationANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $6,000 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $5,500 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $4,465 · EducationSFM FOUNDATION: $2,250 · Education+4 more: $1,400 · EducationMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $16,000 · Arts & CultureMinnesota Children's Museum: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,250 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE IN TANZANIA: $5,500 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC UNITED FINANCIAL FOUNDATION: $2,200 · PhilanthropyBURNSVILLE ROTARY BREAKFAST CLUB FOUNDATION: $800 · PhilanthropyBLAZE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$618,375Human Services$91,450Health$90,675Crime & Legal$81,735Education$61,115Arts & Culture$18,750Philanthropy$9,000

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 budgetNORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $82,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID: $81,235 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $46,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSMACNA COLLEGE OF FELLOWS: $45,525 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetTHE AFFINITY PLUS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $36,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHEAST FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBATC FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS FROM THE HEART: $15,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWinona Health Foundation: $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOSCEOLA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetHUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM: $5,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE IN TANZANIA: $5,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPool & Hot Tub Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $4,465 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEEKER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $3,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST CROIX VALLEY HEALTHCARE FDN: $3,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLADD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $2,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNDS VIEW SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSFM FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC UNITED FINANCIAL FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILLE LACS AREA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST CROIX REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERVIEW HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMinnesota Children's Museum: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HEALTH-CARE FDN INC 50002100: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Humanities Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMC REGIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds NORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID ↗
  • Who funds UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SMACNA COLLEGE OF FELLOWS ↗
  • Who funds THE AFFINITY PLUS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHEAST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BATC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MEALS FROM THE HEART ↗
  • Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Winona Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD ↗
  • Who funds OSCEOLA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds LAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE IN TANZANIA ↗
  • Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds Pool & Hot Tub Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN NEED 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.

Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Hardenbergh FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationHugh J Andersen Found…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Hubbard Broadcast…Mightycause Charitabl…Andersen Corporate Fo…Fred C and Katherine …Greater Twin Cities U…
Otto Bremer TrustMN36.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way

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 Felhaber Larson Fenlon & Vogt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Felhaber Larson Fenlon & Vogt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 115 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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