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Foothills 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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$106kFood & Nutrition$94kHousing & Shelter$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kEducation$47kHealth$21kArts & Culture$19kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,400
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE ACADEMY$9,900
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE$6,550
SALVATION ARMY$5,203
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$5,000
SOLID GROUND$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
PARENTING WITH A PURPOSE$2,400
LAKESHORE PLAYERS THEATER$2,000
THE LINK$1,033
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,030
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,000
RALPH REEDER FOOD SHELF$1,000
AGD FOUNDATION$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF FATHERHOOD: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%THE LINK: $2k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%THE LINK: $2k → 11%THE LINK: $1k → 11%THE LINK: $1k → 11%THE LINK: $1k → 11%THE LINK: $1k → 11%THE LINK: $1k → 11%SOLID GROUND: $6k → 14%THE LINK: $1k → 11%SOLID GROUND: $6k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $6k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $5k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $5k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $3k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $3k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $10k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $7k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $4k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $2k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $2k → 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
IN
AZ
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$448k · 24 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
16

Total granted

$448k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +96%
  • HA
    HOPE ACADEMY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +240%
  • SG
    Solid Ground
    7× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +369%

Funded once

  • UV
    URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +30%
  • IC
    International Center of Fatherhood
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -23%
  • OM
    ORDWAY MUSIC THEATER
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
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
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
2
Nexus-Path Family Healing

Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.

Human Services
3
Wellshare International

The mission of wellshare international is to advance sustainable community health around the world. wellshare international focuses its resources where it can have the greatest impact on the health of underserved and vulnerable…

International
4
Neighborhood House

Since 1897, when the women of mount zion temple created a safe haven for jewish refugees fleeing persecution in russia, neighborhood house has been a stronghold in the st. paul community, helping all people in need. a welcoming presence…

Community Improvement
5
Greater Twin Cities United Way

For 110 years, greater twin cities united way (united way), a nonprofit, has demonstrated that whenever there's a community need in the greater twin cities region, united way is there. united way's efforts continually evolve to respond to…

Philanthropy
6
Man Up and Go

Man up mobilizes, supports, and trains men to model healthy masculinity in their homes, churches, and communities so that fatherlessness decreases in the world.(continued on schedule o)through mentoring, fatherhood coaching, discipleship,…

Human Services
7
Way to Grow

Working closely with parents and communities, we ensure that children within the most isolated families are born healthy, stay healthy and are prepared for school.

Human Services
8
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
9
Families Rising

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…

Human Services
10
Family Lifeline

Family lifeline partners with families and individuals, delivering intensive home and community-based services to achieve an equitable, resilient community where families and individuals are connected, safe, and living a healthy,…

Human Services
11
Canvas Health Inc

To be a recognized leader in community mental health, respected for our clinical quality, innovation, and adaptation to a rapidly changing health care and social services environment.

Human Services
12
The Family Place

Assisting families in shelters to gain more confidence in building future goals that will lead to success of the entire family.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is 5 Stone Media. 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

21 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. 21 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $67,203 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAMERICAN RED CROSS: $53,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSMOUNDS VIEW PUBLIC: $21,069 · OtherMOUNDS VIEW PUBLICLIFEHAVEN AND HOMELESS YOUTH: $17,000 · OtherLIFEHAVEN AND HOMELESS YOUTHINCARNATION LUTHERAN CHURCH: $13,210 · OtherPARENTING WITH PURPOSE: $11,439 · OtherURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+20 more: $61,532 · Other+20 moreSolid Ground: $33,000 · Human ServicesSolid GroundLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $24,730 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVI…THE LINK: $10,221 · Human ServicesTHE LINKWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,060 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJE…International Center of Fatherhood: $10,000 · Human ServicesInternational Center …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $54,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVE…HOPE ACADEMY INC: $50,966 · EducationHOPE ACADEM…FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · InternationalMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $15,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · Health5 Stone Media: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $25 · Arts & Culture
Other$254,453Human Services$95,011Food & Nutrition$54,000Education$50,966International$25,000Health$21,500Arts & Culture$4,025

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 budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $54,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $50,966 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSolid Ground: $33,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $24,730 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTING WITH PURPOSE: $11,439 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LINK: $10,221 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,060 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Center of Fatherhood: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget5 Stone Media: $4,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRestoration Development Foundation Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTARS & STRIPES 4 EVER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetREISER RELIEF INC: $900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $25 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 SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Solid Ground ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARENTING WITH PURPOSE ↗
  • Who funds THE LINK ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds International Center of Fatherhood ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds 5 Stone Media ↗
  • Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Restoration Development Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Lake County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds STARS & STRIPES 4 EVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REISER RELIEF 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.

Mightycause Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foothills Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foothills Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–40%
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 41 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home