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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.6MYouth Development$794kEducation$620kReligion$572kFood & Nutrition$516kCrime & Legal$323kHealth$319kPhilanthropy$303kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $377k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $790k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AEON$65,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC (PPL)$65,000
WOMEN'S CLUB OF MINNEAPOLIS$50,000
HUNGER IMPACT PARTNERS$50,000
YOUTHPRISE$50,000
TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
SUN VALLEY TOUR DE FORCE$50,000
UNIVESITY OF ST THOMAS$46,359
RS EDEN$40,000
BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE$30,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY: $1k → 5%BLACK MEN TEACH: $25k → 11%SOLID GROUNDHOMEWORK STARTS WITH HOME: $25k → 14%SOLID GROUNDHOMEWORK STARTS WITH HOME: $25k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $98k → 14%LION'S FIRE: $10k → 11%UJAAMA PLACE: $95k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $95k → 14%UJAAMA PLACE: $90k → 14%LION'S INK: $3k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $3k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $25k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $25k → 11%UJAMAA PLACE: $2k → 14%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $25k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $25k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $3k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $3k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $2k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC (PPL): $65k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC (PPL): $65k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC (PPL): $65k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC (PPL): $65k → 11%AVIVO: $218 → 11%AVIVO: $207 → 11%RELATE INC: $100 → 11%YOUTHLINK: $175k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
UT
MO
VA
MD
DE
KS
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 51 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
49

Total granted

$4.8M
$842k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+30%

Still filing today

76%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthInternationalOther
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

  • UP
    UJAMAA PLACE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +25%
  • A
    AEON
    6× · 2020–2025 · $337k · revenue +29%
  • HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $203k
  • Y
    YOUTHLINK
    one grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue -12%
  • AH
    AGATE HOUSING SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $85k
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 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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2
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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3
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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4
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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5
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
6
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
7
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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8
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

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

Philanthropy
9
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
10
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
11
Minnesota Land Trust

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.

Environment
12
Community Shares of Minnesota

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;…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners; 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.
04the grantee network

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/74
Grantees still filing
47/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $310,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESGRACE TRINTY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $233,346 · OtherGRACE TRINTY COMMUNITY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $202,748 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TWIN CITIES: $150,000 · OtherNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $108,000 · OtherAcacia Global Inc: $232,290 · OtherAcacia Global IncRS EDEN: $120,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $112,500 · OtherBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $124,000 · Other+69 more: $1,575,240 · Other+69 moreUJAMAA PLACE: $379,500 · Human ServicesUJAMAA PLACEPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $260,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE …YOUTHLINK: $175,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINKTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR YOU…Solid Ground: $50,000 · Human Services+7 more: $49,025 · Human ServicesBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $313,662 · Food & NutritionBLAINE CO…HUNGER IMPACT PARTNERS: $200,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER IM…+1 more: $2,285 · Food & NutritionYouthprise: $200,000 · EducationYouthpris…University of St Thomas: $151,194 · EducationUniversit…GREAT MN SCHOOLS: $75,000 · EducationGREAT MN …PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213: $40,000 · EducationPRODEO AC…+6 more: $34,850 · Education+6 moreAEON: $337,000 · Housing & ShelterALLIANCE HOUSING INC: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $104 · Housing & ShelterHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Health+5 more: $7,100 · HealthTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO: $300,000 · Religion
Other$3,168,124Human Services$1,013,525Food & Nutrition$515,947Education$501,044Housing & Shelter$357,104Health$307,100Religion$300,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUJAMAA PLACE: $379,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetAEON: $337,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $313,662 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO: $300,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $260,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAcacia Global Inc: $232,290 over 6y, 62% of budgetYouthprise: $200,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHUNGER IMPACT PARTNERS: $200,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $175,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $151,194 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $124,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRS EDEN: $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $112,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $108,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $100,757 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMICROGRANTS: $100,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH: $95,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMinnesota Council on Foundations: $72,625 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOSEKNIT: $62,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetTHE WOMAN'S CLUB OF MINNEAPOLIS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolid Ground: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRise Early Learning Center: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFLOURISH PLACEMAKING COLLECTIVE: $36,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $34,165 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBlack Men Teach: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSING INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEDINA GIVE AND GO: $14,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLion's Fire: $12,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetAMAZEWORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWAY TO GROW: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEd Allies: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Constellation Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE ENTERPRISE ZONE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $2,285 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $2,220 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $2,000 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 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 Youthprise ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER IMPACT PARTNERS ↗
  • 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 MICROGRANTS ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds OASIS FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Pohlad Family Foundat…Xcel Energy FoundationJulie & Doug Baker Jr…Mightycause Charitabl…Mortenson Family Foun…Fr Bigelow FoundationWem FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN61.8× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Frey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Frey Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Frey Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 113 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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