· Public charity
Hennepin County Bar Foundation
The HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION is a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation that serves as the charitable arm of the hennepin county bar association.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK | $120,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VLVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD9× · 2017–2025 · $936k · revenue +101%
- LLEGALCORPS5× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +436%
- LRLEGAL RIGHTS CENTER5× · 2017–2022 · $29k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- CSCIVIL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -24%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- HCHENNEPIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -17%
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.
To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.
Cornerstone disrupts violence through advocacy, support, and prevention. We partner with individuals, families, and organizations to build communities free of harm.
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
To improve lives by ending domestic violence.
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.
To ensure that all people and communities have the power and resources to make sexual and reproductive health decisions with self-determination.
The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.
The mission of central minnesota legal services is to advocate for access to the civil justice system for low income people by providing high quality legal services and to improve the lives of people living in poverty by empowering…
The Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault is a statewide coalition driving transformative culture change to address sexual violence through advocacy, prevention, racial justice, and systems change. We envision a world free of sexual…
The mission of Childs Place is to listen to children in a safe developmentally sensitive and legally sound manner; to unite professionals in a coordinated response to child abuse; to guide children and families toward healing through…
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Rights Center and the most unlike its peers is Discapacitados Abriendose Caminos. 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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds LEGALCORPS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds DISCAPACITADOS ABRIENDOSE CAMINOS ↗
- Who funds BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW HEALTH MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Seward Neighborhood Group ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sojourner Project Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Conflict Resolution Center ↗
- Who funds CIVIL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds CORNERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Domestic Abuse Project Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVIC ES INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Women United of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Minnesota State Bar Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minnesota Justice Foundation · Elmer L & Eleanor J Andersen Foundation · Propel Nonprofits
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 Hennepin County Bar 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.