How much did General Mills Foundation grant in FY2021?

General Mills Foundation reported 138 grants totaling $42,422,032 in its FY2021 IRS filing.

Where is General Mills Foundation based?

General Mills Foundation is based in MN.

General Mills Foundation

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

General Mills Foundation

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$42M

Granted FY2021

138

Grants

Communities

$25M

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2021 · 138 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k1 grant · $33
$10k–50k70 grants · $1.8M
$50k–250k47 grants · $3.9M
$250k+20 grants · $37M

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$29M

Total assets

Largest grants

Charities Aid Foundation America$25,023,040
The Minneapolis Foundation$3,445,000
Feeding America$1,500,000
The Global FoodBanking Network$1,000,000
Partners in Food Solutions$550,000
Scholarship America Inc$507,000
Charities Aid Foundation America$500,000
Feeding America$500,000
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$416,971
United Way Worldwide$365,392
Greater Twin Cities United Way$350,000
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$321,272
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$313,564
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$308,791
Share Our Strength$300,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $763k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

United Way of Ne Minnesota

Invest in nonprofits, programs, collaborations that equip, empower and create opportunities for all to thrive.

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Minnesota Business Partnership

To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.

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Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and

Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper

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Great Plains Food Bank

The Great Plains Food Bank is North Dakota's largest hunger-relief organization with a mission to end hunger through community partnerships. Our vision is a hunger-free North Dakota and western Minnesota. Both our mission and vision are…

Food & Nutrition

African Development Center

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

Human Services

Minnesota Medical Association

Be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state & the best place to practice

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United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Youthlink

To support and empower young people on their journey to self-reliance.

Human Services

Planned Parenthood Minnesota North

Support planned parenthood minnesota, north dakota, south dakota.

Human Services

Minnesota Children's Museum

Sparking children's learning through play

Arts & Culture

Mill City Farmers Market Inc

Create a healthy community by providing local, sustainable and organic foods.

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Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Unidosus. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/69

the rest of the field

11%

2,993/26,197

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.

03the grantee network

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/68

Grantees still filing

56/68

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$31,285,264Food & Nutrition$3,085,000Other$3,993,768International$2,310,000Human Services$763,000Education$740,000Employment$245,000

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.

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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN68× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Target Foundation · Cargill Foundation · Mortenson Family 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 organisation General Mills 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Global Child Nutrition Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +90% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 205094658 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Global Child Nutrition Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to General Mills Foundation?

Find your warmest path to General Mills Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

General Mills Foundation

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to General Mills Foundation?

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General Mills Foundation

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to General Mills Foundation?

More from the funding graph