· Private foundation
Hb Fuller Company Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k88 grants · $243k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $258k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBALGIVING | $300,000 |
| NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $85,038 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $73,300 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA | $37,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH | $25,000 |
| THE BAKKEN MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY | $17,500 |
| CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,250 |
| URBAN VENTURES | $10,000 |
| THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW | $10,000 |
| BESTPREP | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of Hb Fuller Company Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
189 repeat relationships: 88 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +34%- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $818k · revenue +105%
- SMSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION CARLSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTone grant, 2023 · $50k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross - Twin Cities Area Chapterone grant, 2017 · $21k
- PDPROJECT DIVAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +63%
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.
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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…
How this is measured
256 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. 256 of the 343 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BAKKEN ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BESTPREP ↗
- Who funds THE WORKS ↗
- Who funds CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds MERRICK INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HIGH TECH KIDS ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds KA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ↗
- Who funds 180 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNER HERO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH JUNIOR COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Youthprise · The Walser Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Boston Scientific Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hb Fuller Company Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hb Fuller Company Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: 25% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Springfield College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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