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Foundation for the Development of People

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.

$37k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 9
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$655k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Foundation for the Development of People funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$37k20%
FY20245$40k0%
FY20236$38k0%
FY20227$41k43%
FY20217$41k43%
FY20209$50k22%
FY20199$42kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$102kHuman Services$57kRecreation & Sports$28kInternational$28kYouth Development$23kHousing & Shelter$17kPhilanthropy$4kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vail Place$82,50070%
Phelps Activities Council$27,50077%
Ampersand Families$20,00031%
Sol Foundation$16,80043%
Ain Dah Yung (Our Home) Center$13,00020%
SOL International Foundation Inc$12,5001n/a
Mission Haiti Inc$11,00032%
Alliance Housing Inc$6,00010%
Project Minnesota-Leon$4,00023%
Hope Center$1,50010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foundation for the Development of People supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVail Place: $82,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPhelps Activities Council: $27,500 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetAmpersand Families: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSol Foundation: $16,800 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetAin Dah Yung (Our Home) Center: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMission Haiti Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAlliance Housing Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProject Minnesota-Leon: $4,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHope Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…Xcel Energy FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · 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.

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About Foundation for the Development of People

How much does Foundation for the Development of People give?
Foundation for the Development of People reported 5 grants totaling $36,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Foundation for the Development of People fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Human Services (20%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
Who are Foundation for the Development of People's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Vail Place ($83k), Phelps Activities Council ($28k), Ampersand Families ($20k).
Does Foundation for the Development of People fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Foundation for the Development of People accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for the Development of People?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
Where is Foundation for the Development of People based?
Foundation for the Development of People is based in MN.

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 19 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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