· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vail Place | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Ampersand | $7,500 |
| Phelps Activities Council | $5,000 |
| Hope Center | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $27k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VPVAIL PLACE7× · 2019–2025 · $83k · revenue +19%
- PAPHELPS ACTIVITIES COUNCIL7× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +156%
- AFAMPERSAND FAMILIES3× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- SISOL International Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -39%
- AFAlliance for the Streets INCone grant, 2020 · $11k
- AHALLIANCE HOUSING INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +157%
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.
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.
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
Hope coalition provides comprehensive, ongoing support to people impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and economic hardship. through advocacy, education and prevention, we build safety, security and stability in our…
Crime and communities violence interve
Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…
Help families build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter.
To provide pathways to end youth homelessness.
Sojourner provides emergency shelter for women and children; legal advocacy and support to empower those victimized by domestic violence; and information and education to raise community awareness and promote violence prevention.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VAIL PLACE ↗
- Who funds PHELPS ACTIVITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AMPERSAND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds SOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOL International Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MINNESOTA-LEON ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Foundation for the Development of People funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for the Development of People. Bigger dots raise more.
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