· Private foundation
Geo A Hormel Testamentary Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Austin Youth Hockey Incorporated | $6,000 |
| Austin Club League Baseball Inc | $5,500 |
| Mower County Humane Society | $5,000 |
| Math Masters of Minnesota | $4,000 |
| Austin Symphony Orchestra Society Inc | $4,000 |
| Riverside Figure Skating Club | $3,000 |
| Austin Junior All-Star Baseball Inc | $3,000 |
| Southern Minnesota Education Consortium | $3,000 |
| Southern Minnesota Women Center | $3,000 |
| Youth Football Inc | $3,000 |
| Brownsdale Volunteer Fire Department | $3,000 |
| Marcusen Park Baseball Association | $3,000 |
| Riverland Community College Foundation | $3,000 |
| Friends of the Library | $3,000 |
| Austin Youth Basketball Corporation | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASAUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +39%
- MCMOWER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +25%
- RCRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
- AYAustin Youth Soccerone grant, 2024 · $3k
- UWUNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -6%
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.
To promote agricultural, horticultural and mechanical arts in the community by maintaining and utilizing the mower county fairgrounds for the benefit of the community.
To promote the economic, civil, industrial and cultural growth of austin, minnesota and the surrounding area.
The mission of MRC is to teach rowing and sculling, and to train its members and others for amateur competitive events and recreational exercise.
Promote shooting sports, gun safety, and sportsmanship and support area youth programs.
The minnesota youth soccer association promotes the game of soccer for all youth in minnesota. we promote the importance of education, self-esteem, diversity and teamwork in a safe, fun environment, allowing players to develop to their…
We empower youth to be joyful, confident winter enthusiasts by building inclusive communities that reduce barriers to cross-country skiing.
Amateur sports - bowling
To encourage the instruction, practice & advancement of the members in the discipline of figure skating. To encourage the fraternal feeling among ice skaters & cooperate to produce amateur events.
To stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, horticulture, the art of flower arranging, garden history and design and photography; to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through action in the field of…
Preserve railroad history provide exhibits of model railroading hobby depict history of toy trains manufacturing and the hobby
The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…
The association of minnesota counties is a voluntary non-partisan statewide organization that assists the state's 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of minnesota.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 HORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOWER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATH MASTERS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE FIGURE SKATING CLUB ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN YOUTH BASKETBALL ↗
- Who funds BROWNSDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds MARCUSEN PARK BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN JUNIOR ALL-STAR BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 91 ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds MOWER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds MATCHBOX CHILDRENS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SEMCAC ↗
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: Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · United Way of Mower County Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Minnesota Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Geo A Hormel Testamentary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geo A Hormel Testamentary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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