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Hardenbergh Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k148 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJAMAA PLACE | $500,000 |
| LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| WAKAN TIPI AWANYANKAPI | $250,000 |
| FACE TO FACE HEALTH AND COUNSELING | $250,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE | $200,000 |
| MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| YWCA ST PAUL | $125,000 |
| COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES | $100,000 |
| GOODWILL-EASTER SEALS MINNESOTA | $100,000 |
| ST PAUL URBAN TENNIS | $100,000 |
| THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER | $100,000 |
| LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $100,000 |
| TRUE FRIENDS | $100,000 |
| DODGE NATURE CENTER | $100,000 |
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, $7.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
210 repeat relationships — 136 still active in FY2025, 74 since wound down; 31 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- CDCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +162%
- UPUJAMAA PLACE6× · 2020–2025 · $680k · revenue +25%
- KCKeystone Community Services6× · 2020–2025 · $585k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2024 · $350k · revenue +8%
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIANone grant, 2024 · $260k
- HHHUDSON HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +40%
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…
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 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…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
The minnesota jcc is dedicated to strengthening our community by providing inclusive programs that inspire personal growth, foster connection, and promote well-being through arts, culture, education, fitness, early childhood, day camp and…
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Big Ideas Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
254 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 254 of the 336 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE ↗
- Who funds UJAMAA PLACE ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds The Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT PAUL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds CANVAS HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc ↗
- Who funds Latino Economic Development Center ↗
- Who funds The JK Movement ↗
- Who funds MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds HUDSON HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds 180 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ABLELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds EQUASPACE ↗
- Who funds CERENITY SENIOR CARE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries Inc ↗
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: Fr Bigelow Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mardag Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Target Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis 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 Hardenbergh 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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