· Private foundation
Grotto Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $394k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $675k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORMANDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE SANNEH FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | $50,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH TWIN CITIES | $50,000 |
| APPETITE FOR CHANGE | $50,000 |
| MOBILE HOPE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| BOLDER OPTIONS | $50,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| ELPIS ENTERPRISES | $50,000 |
| BIG IDEAS INC | $50,000 |
| UJAMAA PLACE | $40,000 |
| ISUROON | $40,000 |
| REACH FOR RESOURCES INC | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 27 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPROJECT SUCCESS6× · 2017–2024 · $399k · revenue +130%
- WEWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS7× · 2017–2025 · $323k · revenue +72%
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAM6× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- SPST PAUL COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $247k
- YYOUTHLINKone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -2%
THE BRANDLABone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -27%
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.
Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
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…
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…
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS MINNESOTA accelerates the impact of youth - serving nonprofits in the Twin Cities by fostering a community of engaged philanthropists. Our vision is a future where every young person has the opportunity to pursue a…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of 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.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
World Youth Connect builds communities across cultures and beyond borders. By creating and encouraging civic engagement opportunities we help young people gain the skills and experience they need to be successful. World Youth Connect…
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.
Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…
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…
How this is measured
60 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. 60 of the 81 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 PROJECT SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds One2One ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Bolder Options ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Isuroon ↗
- Who funds Elpis Enterprises ↗
- Who funds HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Mobile Hope ↗
- Who funds ALL SQUARE ↗
- Who funds Community Partners with Youth ↗
- Who funds UJAMAA PLACE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds THE TIWAHE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Farm and Market Project ↗
- Who funds BIG IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds Normandale Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Foster Advocates ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND ↗
- Who funds KA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mortenson Family Foundation · Youthprise · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grotto Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grotto Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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