· Private foundation
Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA | $12,000 |
| INTELLECTUAL TAKEOUT | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE | $10,000 |
| THE REDEMPTION PROJECT | $7,500 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| BRIDGING | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BEST PREP | $6,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER TWIN CITIES | $6,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $6,000 |
| CHOICE | $5,000 |
| MOBILE HOPE | $5,000 |
| ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| HIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB | $5,000 |
| BANYAN | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- COCenter of the American Experiment7× · 2017–2023 · $109k · revenue +105%
- CWCONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA7× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +51%
- OLOUR LADY OF PEACE6× · 2018–2023 · $79k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- NSNORTHERN STAR COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -15%
- HAHELP AT YOUR DOORone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -20%
- MMACLAURINCSFone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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…
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Health Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Center of the American Experiment ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Charlemagne Institute ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB ↗
- Who funds BESTPREP ↗
- Who funds Bridging Inc ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate Life ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE REDEMPTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds BELLIS ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE HOPE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHOICE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELDER VOICE ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds BRIDGING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HELP AT YOUR DOOR ↗
- Who funds Friends & Co ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Walser Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The K Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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