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Foundation for Educational Research and Development

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.4MEducation$1.4MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$920kInternational$150kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $395k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSTELLATION FUND$1,356,418
CONSTELLATION FUND$400,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MPLS$170,000
SUMMIT ACADEMY$125,000
GREAT MN SCHOOLS$100,000
BEST PREP$33,333
UNION COLLEGE$25,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAYO CLINIC: $750k → 9%CONSTELLATION FUND: $1.4M → 11%SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 14%UNION COLLEGE: $84k → 12%ISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION: $83k → 7%WE CHARITY: $50k → 14%MAYO CLINIC INST: $419k → 9%CONSTELLATION FUND: $400k → 11%UNION COLLEGE: $25k → 12%ISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION: $75k → 7%MAYO CLINIC: $300k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MPLS: $150k → 11%ISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION: $75k → 7%THE CONSTELLATION FUND: $200k → 11%ISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION: $75k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MPLS: $150k → 11%THE CONSTELLATION FUND: $200k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MPLS: $150k → 11%THE CONSTELLATION FUND: $100k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MPLS: $150k → 11%GREAT MN SCHOOLS: $100k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MPLS: $150k → 11%THE CONSTELLATION FUND: $100k → 11%THE NEW IMPACT: $157k → 11%GREAT MN SCHOOLS: $50k → 11%GREAT MN SCHOOLS: $50k → 11%GREAT MN SCHOOLS: $50k → 11%SUMMIT ACADEMY: $125k → 11%SUMMIT ACADEMY: $5k → 11%SUMMIT ACADEMY: $5k → 11%SUMMIT ACADEMY: $5k → 11%SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $5k → 11%SUMMIT ACADEMY: $5k → 11%WE CHARITY: $100k → 11%HEILICHER MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $75k → 11%MPLS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $65k → 11%HEILICHER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $30k → 11%HEILICHER MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MPLS: $170k → 11%BESTPREP: $33k → 11%BESTPREP: $33k → 11%BEST PREP: $33k → 11%BEST PREP: $25k → 11%BEST PREP: $25k → 11%YOUTHPRISE: $100k → 11%THE BLAKE SCHOOL LEARNING WORKS: $60k → 11%THE BLAKE SCHOOL LEARNING WORKS: $60k → 11%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 10 repeat orgs$796k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$4.6M
$796k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+58%

Still filing today

70%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’24
EducationInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • TC
    The Constellation Fund
    5× · 2019–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +86% · 34% of their budget
  • GM
    GREAT MN SCHOOLS
    4× · 2019–2024 · $250k · revenue +124%
  • B
    BESTPREP
    5× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $419k
  • TN
    THE NEW IMPACT
    one grant, 2017 · $157k
  • Y
    Youthprise
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -45%
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 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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3
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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4
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
5
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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6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
8
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

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.

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9
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
10
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
11
Minnesota Comeback

Driven by an unwavering moral imperative that every child, regardless of its race, income or zip code, deserves the same high-quality education, mn comeback has become a growing movement of philanthropists, community leaders and education…

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12
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Academy Oic; the most unlike its peers is Science Museum of Minnesota. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Constellation Fund: $2,356,418 · PhilanthropyThe Constellation FundJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MPLS: $920,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF…Individual grant recipient: $418,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NEW IMPACT: $157,000 · OtherTHE NEW IMPACTBESTPREP: $150,000 · OtherBESTPREPTHE BLAKE SCHOOL LEARNING WORKS: $120,000 · OtherTHE BLAKE SCHOOL LEARNING WORKSUNION COLLEGE: $108,800 · OtherHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY: $90,000 · Other+2 more: $95,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $1,050,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $250,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $150,000 · EducationYouthprise: $100,000 · EducationISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION: $307,500 · InternationalWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC: $150,000 · InternationalSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$2,356,418Other$2,059,300Health$1,050,000Education$500,000International$457,500Arts & Culture$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Constellation Fund: $2,356,418 over 5y, 34% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,050,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION: $307,500 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $250,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBESTPREP: $150,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetYouthprise: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY: $90,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 The Constellation Fund ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds WE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC ↗
  • Who funds BESTPREP ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
  • Who funds Youthprise ↗
  • Who funds HAROLD AND MICKEY SMITH JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Lynne & Andrew Redlea…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Foundation for Educational Research and Development funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Educational Research and Development. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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