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Frey 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $377k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $790k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UJAAMA PLACE | $95,000 |
| TWIN CITIES RISE | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| HEADING HOME MINNESOTA | $70,000 |
| PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC (PPL) | $65,000 |
| AEON | $65,000 |
| HUNGER IMPACT PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| SUN VALLEY TOUR DE FORCE | $50,000 |
| YOUTHPRISE | $50,000 |
| WOMEN'S CLUB OF MINNEAPOLIS | $50,000 |
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVESITY OF ST THOMAS | $46,359 |
| RS EDEN | $40,000 |
| INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
51 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- UPUJAMAA PLACE5× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +25%
- AAEON6× · 2020–2025 · $337k · revenue +29%
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $203k
- YYOUTHLINKone grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue -12%
- AHAGATE HOUSING SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $85k
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.
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…
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is New Chances Humane Society. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 113 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 UJAMAA PLACE ↗
- Who funds AEON ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Acacia Global Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNGER IMPACT PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Youthprise ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds RS EDEN ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
- Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Council on Foundations ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLOSEKNIT ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S CLUB OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Wem Foundation · The McKnight Foundation
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 Frey 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.
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