· Private foundation
Howard Family Fund
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northside Residents Redevelopment Council | $1,000 |
| We Care Solar | $1,000 |
| Alliance Francaise Mpls St Paul | $800 |
| Como Snowsports Booster Club | $650 |
| Samos Volunteers Syrian refugees | $500 |
| Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Cnt | $500 |
| Fred Wells Tennis and Education Cnt | $500 |
| Annunciation House | $500 |
| Planned Parenthood | $400 |
| Our Justice | $400 |
| Family Tree Clinic | $400 |
| Carleton College | $400 |
| Native American Community Clinic | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Century College | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWE CARE SOLAR4× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +103%
- PSPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC3× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +287%
- WRWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- CWCycling Withoug Age Twin Citiesone grant, 2022 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +137%
- MJMONARCH JOINT VENTUREgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +196%
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.
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.
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WE CARE SOLAR ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds Family Pathways ↗
- Who funds FRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE RESIDENTS REDEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MPLS-ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds OUR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Family Tree Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH ST CROIX ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONARCH JOINT VENTURE ↗
- Who funds CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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