· Private foundation
John E Desmond and Janet C Desmond Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHFIELD SPARTAN FOUNDATION | $66,500 |
| NORMANDALE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BIG IDEAS INC | $17,000 |
| CORNERHOUSE | $12,000 |
| HENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $11,000 |
| BANYAN COMMUNITY | $8,000 |
| MINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL | $3,500 |
| MIDWEST SHOWMEN'S FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCORNERHOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +71%
- HTHENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +125%
- TBThe Banyan Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- LGLET'S GO FISHING SCOTT COUNTY AREAone grant, 2017 · $2k
- NSNORTHERN STAR COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -15%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +39%
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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 CORNERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds Richfield Spartan Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Minneapolis Recreation Development Inc Love One Another ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST SHOWMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEPOT FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John E Desmond and Janet C Desmond Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John E Desmond and Janet C Desmond Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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