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Hiawatha Education Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$16MArts & Culture$700kEmployment$597kHealth$100kHuman Services$33k
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
3
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COTTER SCHOOLS$1,350,000
CORNERSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL$119,000
Individual grant recipient$115,500
MN CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS$100,000
ST ELIZABETH'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$100,000
SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MN$100,000
ACACIA MONTESSORI$99,550
Individual grant recipient$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
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CATHEDRAL HILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $1k → 14%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $33k → 11%COMMON ROOTS MONTESSORI: $19k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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 · 39 repeat orgs$533k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
6

Total granted

$17M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+99%

Still filing today

49%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyOther

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 ×17
  • CM
    CREEKSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $720k · revenue +77%
  • MA
    MONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +179%

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 +99%

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.

1
The Montessori School

The Montessori School educates children from 18 months-6th grade. Our program is rooted in the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori faithful to her method. In our caring environment, sustained by freedom peace, the school…

2
Morningside Montessori School Association

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
3
Montessori Childrens House of Nantucket Inc

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

Education
4
Northwest Montessori School

To provide an individualized learning environment, based on the principles of Dr. Maria Montessori, that is designed to help students become independent, life-long learners who are academically grounded and socially confident about their…

Education
5
Dakota Montessori School

To nurture children to become lifelong learners and citizens of the world using the montessori method of education.

Education
6
Montessori Academy

Montessori academy is a not-for-profit, educational institution serving children preschoool through eighth grade.

7
Sullivan Montessori Inc

Preschool for children ages 18 months and up. Provide a well rounded program including a variety of classes such as cooking, art and yoga.

Education
8
The Westmont Montessori School Inc

Preschool Education following the Montessori Method for children from age 18 months to 6 years.

Education
9
Mount Hope Montessori School Inc

The school offers a carefully prepared safe and nurturing environment in which children age 2 to 6 actively engaged in a variety of work areas to encourage their fullest development. inspired by dr. maria montessori. the school endeavors…

Human Services
10
Lupine Montessori School

To nurture confident, independent, lifelong learning by providing holistic montessori education to children, families and our community.

Education
11
Montessori Community School

Montessori community school is an independent, non-sectarian school providing a montessori education for children ages two through twelve years.

12
Montessori Community School Inc

We are a vibrant montessori community where together, through our dynamic and relevant curriculum, we guide students toward self-discovery and the realization of their unique contributions to the world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildwood Montessori and the most unlike its peers is St Elizabeths Community Development Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%19%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%0%20–35yr14%48%35–55yr14%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr18%0%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr14%64%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
14%
2,491/18,362

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.

04the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COTTER SCHOOLS — $6,428,789 · OtherCOTTER SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient — $1,067,275 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $901,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCORNERSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $855,550 · OtherCORNERSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $641,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $537,500 · OtherSMU CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS — $500,000 · Other+28 more — $3,530,350 · Other+28 moreCREEKSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $720,450 · EducationCREEKSIDE MONTES…MONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED — $599,700 · EducationMONTESSORI AMERI…LITTLE VOYAGEURS' MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $463,150 · EducationLITTLE VOYAGEURS…SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI — $142,200 · EducationSUNNY HOLLOW MON…BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $132,900 · EducationAcacia Montessori — $130,950 · EducationJONATHAN MONTESSORI HOUSE OF CHILDREN INC — $105,400 · EducationMANY RIVERS MONTESSORI — $87,400 · Education+3 more — $145,600 · Education+3 moreHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $597,300 · EmploymentST ELIZABETHS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $33,400 · Human ServicesCommon Roots Montessori School — $20,800 · Human Services
Other$14,462,064Education$2,527,750Employment$597,300Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$54,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOTTER SCHOOLS — $6,428,789 over 7y, 17% of budgetCREEKSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $720,450 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetMONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED — $599,700 over 8y, 24% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $597,300 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLITTLE VOYAGEURS' MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $463,150 over 8y, 16% of budgetWHITE BEAR MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $375,600 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetWILDWOOD MONTESSORI — $142,950 over 4y, 26% of budgetSUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI — $142,200 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $132,900 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAcacia Montessori — $130,950 over 2y, 32% of budgetJONATHAN MONTESSORI HOUSE OF CHILDREN INC — $105,400 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetST ELIZABETHS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMANY RIVERS MONTESSORI — $87,400 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetLAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS — $86,450 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S WORKSHOP — $83,800 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetHODGSON ROAD PROPERTIES INC FKA OAK HILL MONTESSORI — $73,450 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $33,400 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROSEBAY MONTESSORI — $32,600 over 2y, 13% of budgetSWEET PEA MONTESSORI — $29,200 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCommon Roots Montessori School — $20,800 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGARDEN OF HOPE MONTESSORI — $18,600 over 4y, 4.7% of budget
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 COTTER SCHOOLS
  • Who funds CREEKSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
  • Who funds MONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED
  • Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP
  • Who funds LITTLE VOYAGEURS' MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds WHITE BEAR MONTESSORI SCHOOL
  • Who funds WILDWOOD MONTESSORI
  • Who funds SUNNY HOLLOW MONTESSORI
  • Who funds BLUFFVIEW MONTESSORI SCHOOL
  • Who funds Acacia Montessori
  • Who funds JONATHAN MONTESSORI HOUSE OF CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds ST ELIZABETHS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MANY RIVERS MONTESSORI
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP
  • Who funds HODGSON ROAD PROPERTIES INC FKA OAK HILL MONTESSORI

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 SmallMN21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover 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 · The Minneapolis Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hiawatha Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hiawatha Education Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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