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Henry and Mary Ellen Bellaimey Family Foundation at a glance

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Henry and Mary Ellen Bellaimey Family 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.

$190k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$483kHousing & Shelter$91kInternational$86kCivil Rights$77kFood & Nutrition$76kReligion$70kHuman Services$45kArts & Culture$42kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
$4,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHNS ANNUAL GIVING$18,500
GESU CHURCH AND SCHOOL$12,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$12,000
CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN$12,000
FOCUS HOPE$12,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$12,000
HOLY REDEEMER SCHOOL$12,000
THAW$12,000
FRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS TOLIMAN$9,000
FREEDOM HOUSE$8,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT$6,000
METRO STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
PINGREE FARMS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOCUS HOPE: $12k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $12k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $12k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $11k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $9k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $8k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $6k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $6k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $5k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $5k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $5k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $5k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$976k · 36 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -39% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
6

Total granted

$976k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-39%

Still filing today

47%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $76k · revenue +89%
  • F
    FOCUSHOPE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $76k · revenue +40%
  • FH
    FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $39k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • LS
    LAKE STREET REBUILD FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH DETROIT LEDYARD HALL
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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4
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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6
MN350

Mn350 unites minnesotans with the global movement to end the pollution damaging our climate, speed the transition to clean energy, and create a just and healthy future for all.

Environment
7
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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8
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
9
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
10
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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11
Minnesota African Womens Association

TO Promote the health and well being of African refugee and immigrant women and their families in the twin City area through research, education ,advocacy and programming

Human Services
12
Veap Inc

VEAP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, multi-service, human service organization with the mission of "Together, we create pathways to stronger, more hopeful, communities through access to healthy food, housing stability and supportive services."

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Education Project; the most unlike its peers is Juxtaposition Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY REDEEMER SCHOOL: $76,000 · OtherHOLY REDEEMER SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $76,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN: $76,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHENCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $76,000 · OtherCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLGESU CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $76,000 · OtherGESU CHURCH AND SCHOOLTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND: $76,000 · OtherTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUNDST JOHNS ANNUAL GIVING: $66,350 · OtherST JOHNS ANNUAL GIVINGFRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS TOLIMAN: $48,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS TOLIMANIndividual grant recipient: $47,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPINGREE FARMS: $31,500 · Other+19 more: $87,500 · Other+19 moreFOCUSHOPE: $76,000 · Human ServicesFOCUSHOPEFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $38,500 · Human ServicesFREEDOM HOUSE…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $76,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $3,000 · InternationalMERCY EDUCATION PROJECT: $17,000 · EducationEd Allies: $8,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $7,000 · EducationSahan Journal: $6,500 · Education+1 more: $700 · EducationHOUSING IN ACTION INC: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORS FOR MORE NEIGHBORS: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentMinnPost: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSTATES NEWSROOM: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $1,400 · Arts & Culture
Other$736,850Human Services$114,500International$79,000Education$39,200Housing & Shelter$8,000Youth Development$6,500Arts & Culture$6,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $76,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND: $76,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUSHOPE: $76,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $38,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY EDUCATION PROJECT: $17,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEd Allies: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN: $7,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSING IN ACTION INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSahan Journal: $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMinnPost: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC RESOURCE GROUP: $3,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTATES NEWSROOM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS FOR MORE NEIGHBORS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBreck School: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Ed Allies ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Sahan Journal ↗
  • Who funds MinnPost ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RESOURCE GROUP ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
  • Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
  • Who funds STATES NEWSROOM ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mightycause Charitabl…The McKnight Foundati…Pohlad Family Foundat…Otto Bremer TrustGeorge Family Foundat…Mortenson Family Foun…Propel NonprofitsThe K FoundationMinnesota Community F…The Graco Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · George Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · The K Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Graco Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Henry and Mary Ellen Bellaimey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry and Mary Ellen Bellaimey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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