How much does Holden Family Foundation give?

Holden Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $59,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Holden Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Food & Nutrition (23%), International (12%).

Who are Holden Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity ($43k), Food Group Minnesota Inc The ($36k), Community Emergency Service Inc ($35k).

Does Holden Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Holden Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Holden Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is Holden Family Foundation based?

Holden Family Foundation is based in MN.

Holden Family Foundation

Holden Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Holden Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$59k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$142kFood & Nutrition$119kInternational$60kHousing & Shelter$54kPublic Safety & Disaster$47kAnimals$28kReligion$18kHealth$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,400

Median grant

States reached

$552k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$5,500
THE FOOD GROUP	$4,650
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE	$4,650
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN	$3,800
LOAVES AND FISHES	$3,600
WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT	$3,500
DAV CHARITABLE SERVICE TRUST	$3,000
SALVATION ARMY	$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
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$1,400

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$502k · 42 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$502k

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+8%

Still filing today

71%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalHealthFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TC
TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +80%
FG
FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE
9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +21%
CE
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +10%

Funded once

OXFAM-AMERICA INC
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +8%
BS
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NORTHSTAR COU
one grant, 2017 · $1k
TM
THE MINNESOTA EYE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -14%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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Second Harvest Heartland

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.

Food & Nutrition

Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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Children's Health Care

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.

Health

The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy

Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals

University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health

Missions Inc Programs

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…

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Senior Community Services

Our mission is empowering people as they age.

Human Services

Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/35

Grantees still filing

28/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$229,800Human Services$115,250International$72,700Food & Nutrition$51,150Health$25,600Education$10,300Animals$5,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Otto Bremer TrustMN26.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Holden Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holden Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home