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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of FELHABER LARSON FENLON & VOGT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFFINITY PLUS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ESSENTIA HEALTH-FARGO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN | $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 |
| HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP | $2,500 |
| GUARDIAN ANGELS SENIOR SERVICES | $2,500 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ECUMEN | $2,500 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 12 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NMNORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +94%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +78%
- TFTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID7× · 2017–2023 · $81k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- HFHEALTHEAST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- PHPool & Hot Tub Foundationone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- SCST CATHERINE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
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…
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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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.
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 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…
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
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.…
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,…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Partnering for better health and better lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omc Regional Foundation and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 116 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 OSCEOLA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD ↗
- Who funds HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE IN TANZANIA ↗
- Who funds Pool & Hot Tub Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Felhaber Larson Fenlon & Vogt Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.