How much did HIAWATHA EDUCATION FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of HIAWATHA EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $23k
$10k–50k14 grants · $382k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
$250k+1 grant · $1.4M

$48,600

Median grant

States reached

$61M

Total assets

Largest grants

COTTER SCHOOLS$1,350,000
CORNERSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL$119,000
SIEMBRA MONTESSORI$115,500
MN CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS$100,000
SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MN$100,000
ST ELIZABETH'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$100,000
ACACIA MONTESSORI$99,550
LIRIO MONTESSORI$96,000
WATER LILY MONTESSORI SCHOOL$95,700
CREEKSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL$86,100
MONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDRENS' CENTER$73,000
OVERBROOK SCHOOL$60,000
WHITE BEAR MONTESSORI SCHOOL$52,150
HOPE LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$50,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$17M · 38 repeat orgs$565k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+115%

Still filing today

45%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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

CS
COTTER SCHOOLS
7× · 2017–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +268%
ME
MAYFLOWER EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $720k · revenue +66%
HA
HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP
4× · 2017–2020 · $597k · revenue +58%

Funded once

SM
ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MN
one grant, 2017 · $100k
SL
ST LOUISE PARISH SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $60k
CT
CENTRO TYRONE GUZMANgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue +115%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Community Montessori School

Provide affordable, fully implemented montessori education and child care to an intentionally diverse group of families in ways that promote social and environmental responsibility.

Education

Wildflower Montessori School

Wildflower montessori school is an authentic montessori lab school serving children ages 2.9-6 years of age and their families.

Education

Pioneer Meadows Montessori School

MMS is committed to a high-quality Montessori education with affordable tuition, reaching an economically, racially, and culturally diverse community. MMS engages in a whole child, place based approach to our curriculum.

Education

Windsor Street Montessori School

To provide child care and educational services utilizing the montessori system

Education

Parkside Community Montessori School

The school is organized for educational and research purposes and particularly includes, but is not limited to, the following: (1) providing a montessori-based learning environment for children; (2) providing on-going parent education…

Education

Morningside Montessori School

Morningside montessori school blends the philosophy and methods of dr. maria montessori with today's best practices in child development. together, we nurture children into compassionate, independent, lifelong learners.

Education

Montessori Childrens House of

MONTESSORI SCHOOL that works to create an environment that inspires children to develop inner discipline, self assurance, and a love of learning

Education

Creekside Montessori

Creekside Montessori is here to work with families to create a peaceful community of diverse, respectful, self-motivated and independent learners who seek out and joyfully embrace academic and social opportunities.

Education

Riverrun Community Montessori

Montessori school riverrun community montessori is a non-public school that follows the educational philosophy and methods of maria montessori

Education

Mount Hope Montessori School Inc

The school offers a carefully prepared safe and nurturing environment in which children age 3 to 6 actively engaged in a variety of work areas to encourage their fullest development.

Human Services

Montessori Education Centre Charter

Commitment to development of the whole child by providing students a well- rounded, individualized educational and developmental experience that is grounded on montessori principles.

Education

Gloucester Montessori School

Education of children ages 2 to 12

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunny Hollow Montessori and the most unlike its peers is Acacia Montessori. 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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

16/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$15,108,514Education$2,000,700Employment$597,300Human Services$34,800

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.

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.

Think SmallMN19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Think Small · First Children's Finance · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Wildflower Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation HIAWATHA EDUCATION 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.

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ACACIA MONTESSORI.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 882736830 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ACACIA MONTESSORI, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 32% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Hiawatha Education Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hiawatha Education Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HIAWATHA EDUCATION FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hiawatha Education Foundation?

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HIAWATHA EDUCATION FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hiawatha Education Foundation?

More from the funding graph