· Private foundation
John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $435k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $540k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST HUBERT'S CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $190,000 |
| RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST HUBERT'S CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $100,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION MN CHAPTER | $50,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS | $50,000 |
| EVERY MEAL | $35,000 |
| THE COLLEGE OF ST BENEDICT | $30,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $25,000 |
| DESERT HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL | $25,000 |
| ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATIONCOURAGE KENNY REHABILITATION INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| YOUTH FRONTIERS INC | $25,000 |
| MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 91%.
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 +81% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RFRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue +228%
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND7× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +81%
- EMEVERY MEAL7× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +364%
Funded once
- GTGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -41%
- CCCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -74%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +105%
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.
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…
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…
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.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The minnesota private college fund serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
We, mercy college of health sciences and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy college of health sciences is a member of trinity health.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 56 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 COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels - South Shore ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds Bridging Inc ↗
- Who funds PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds MCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds VraniCURE ↗
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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · American Gift Fund · Bame Foundation · The K Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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