· Private foundation
Hognander 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $23,939 |
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $17,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $15,000 |
| MINNEHAHA ACADEMY | $12,412 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION | $12,000 |
| FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MAGNUM CHORUM | $3,000 |
| GUTHRIE THEATER | $3,000 |
| WALKER ART CENTER | $3,000 |
| VOCAL ESSENCE | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +11%
- TCTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +37%
- MOMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- MCMAGNUM CHORUMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +145%
- WTWAY TO GROWone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -34%
- AHALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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 enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.
The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…
Schubert club creates inspiring musical experiences that contribute to the cultural vibrancy of the twin cities community through concert presentations, music education and student scholarship programs, and musuem exhibits.
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
The m inspires understandings of identities, experiences, and complex truths through american art.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
To support charitable, plant-based scientific, and educational activities exclusively for the benefit of the minnesota landscape arboretum of the university of minnesota
The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the most unlike its peers is Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 57 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 — 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.
29 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. 29 of the 33 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 THE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
- Who funds VOCALESSENCE ↗
- Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MILITARY AND VETERANS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds The American-Scandinavian Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bolder Options ↗
- Who funds MAGNUM CHORUM ↗
- Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Sit Investment Associates Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rodney and Barbara Burwell Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Ibm International 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 Hognander 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.