· Private foundation
Hiawatha Education Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k 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
- CSCOTTER SCHOOLS7× · 2017–2024 · $6.4M · revenue ×17
- CMCREEKSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $720k · revenue +77%
- MAMONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +179%
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MNone grant, 2017 · $100k
- SLST LOUISE PARISH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $60k
- CTCENTRO TYRONE GUZMANgraduatedone 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.
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.
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…
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.
MONTESSORI SCHOOL that works to create an environment that inspires children to develop inner discipline, self assurance, and a love of learning
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…
To nurture children to become lifelong learners and citizens of the world using the montessori method of education.
Montessori academy is a not-for-profit, educational institution serving children preschoool through eighth grade.
Preschool for children ages 18 months and up. Provide a well rounded program including a variety of classes such as cooking, art and yoga.
Preschool Education following the Montessori Method for children from age 18 months to 6 years.
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…
To nurture confident, independent, lifelong learning by providing holistic montessori education to children, families and our community.
Montessori community school is an independent, non-sectarian school providing a montessori education for children ages two through twelve years.
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.
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 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 — 0.0% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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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.
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.
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