· Private foundation
Hugh J Andersen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k69 grants · $336k
- $10k–50k134 grants · $3.6M
- $50k–250k60 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA | $500,000 |
| LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA | $500,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MN ND AND SD | $200,000 |
| SOLID GROUND | $200,000 |
| CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY | $150,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| WEST CENTRAL WI COMMUNITY ACTION | $130,000 |
| WOMENVENTURE | $130,000 |
| ST CROIX VALLEY HABITAT HUMANITY | $120,000 |
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $110,000 |
| CLEAR LAKE AREA COMMUNITY CENTER | $105,000 |
| OPERATION HELP | $105,000 |
| WASHINGTON CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| AEON | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $8.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
271 repeat relationships: 196 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 19 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $373k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY7× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +53%
- SGSolid Ground7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +349%
- TTUBMAN7× · 2019–2025 · $969k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- BPBAYPORT PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $350k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +1%- FOFRIENDS OF THE ELLSWORTH PUBLIC LIBone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
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…
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
Minnesota housing partnership (mhp) expands housing and community development opportunity by leading collaborative work to promote systems change and grow develoopment capacity.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Our mission is empowering people as they age.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
Make mental health healthier through treatment, training, education, and information.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Working in partnership with the community to empower residents to improve their physical, social and economic well-being. we work to alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty.
How this is measured
249 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. 249 of the 350 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THREAD ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds Valley Outreach ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENVENTURE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds COMPAS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH ST CROIX ↗
- Who funds River Falls Community Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds FamilyWise Services ↗
- Who funds CLARE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Dream of Wild Health ↗
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: Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · St Croix Valley Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Minneapolis Foundation · Target Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hugh J Andersen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hugh J Andersen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc: 69% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
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