· Private foundation
Holden Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,500 |
| COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE | $4,650 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $4,650 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN | $3,800 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $3,600 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT | $3,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,000 |
| DAV CHARITABLE SERVICE TRUST | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $2,800 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $2,700 |
| METRO HOPE MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $1,600 |
| SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES | $1,600 |
| INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOC | $1,400 |
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 (FY17–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +54% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TCTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +80%
- FGFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +21%
- CECOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +10%
Funded once
OXFAM-AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -5%- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NORTHSTAR COUone grant, 2017 · $1k
- TMTHE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -14%
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 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…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…
Our mission is empowering people as they age.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eric James Benson 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 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 TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds METRO HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds HELP AT YOUR DOOR ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Achievers ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds ERIC JAMES BENSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Resourcewest ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Wca Foundation · Target 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 Holden Family 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.