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Lilian Wright & C Emil Berglund Foundation at a glance

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Lilian Wright & C Emil Berglund 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.

$84k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$174kEducation$160kHousing & Shelter$32kYouth Development$20kHuman Services$20kEmployment$15kEnvironment$10kCivil Rights$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMPAS INC$6,000
FRIENDS OF THE ST PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY$6,000
BELL MUSEUM$5,000
ST PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ISD 625$4,750
BALLET CO LABORATORY$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
PLAYWORKS MINNESOTA$3,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC$3,000
RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,000
ILLUSION THEATER & SCHOOL$3,000
MINNESOTA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$3,000
SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS$2,500
ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$2,500
COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES$2,500
FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE FREE BOOK BUGGIE: $500 → 6%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $2k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $2k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $1k → 11%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2k → 14%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$422k · 37 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
30

Total granted

$422k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+20%

Still filing today

76%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    COMPAS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +102%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +71%
  • MC
    Minnesota Children's Museum
    6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • FS
    Friends St Paul Public Library
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • CS
    Community School of Excellence
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +24%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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2
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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4
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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5
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
6
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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7
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
8
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
9
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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10
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
11
Minnesota State Council On Economic Education

Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…

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12
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Free Book Buggie. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
39/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BELL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $47,800 · OtherBELL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25,500 · OtherTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARYSAINT PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $23,978 · OtherSAINT PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient: $22,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $16,500 · OtherCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIESKeystone Community Services: $13,000 · OtherTree Trust: $12,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $8,500 · Other+33 more: $79,670 · Other+33 moreCOMPAS INC: $31,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPAS INCMinnesota Children's Museum: $18,000 · Arts & CultureMinnesota Children's Muse…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVI…RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL …BALLET CO-LABORATORY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET CO-LABORATORYIllusion Theater and School Inc: $6,000 · Arts & CultureIllusion Theater and Scho…THE WORKS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER MU INCORPORATED: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $72,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESO…SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $6,500 · EducationSCIENCE FROM SCIENTIS…AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · Education+5 more: $8,500 · Education+5 morePROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $2,000 · Human ServicesHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1,000 · Human ServicesFREE BOOK BUGGIE: $500 · Human ServicesJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $5,000 · InternationalWorld Savvy: $3,500 · InternationalALIGHT: $500 · InternationalNORTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $2,000 · HealthMAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthTUBMAN: $2,000 · HealthRIVER VALLEY RIDERS: $1,000 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $250 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $6,000 · Environment
Other$249,698Arts & Culture$110,000Education$91,100Human Services$13,500International$9,000Health$7,250Environment$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $72,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPAS INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Children's Museum: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTree Trust: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET CO-LABORATORY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIllusion Theater and School Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WORKS: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SQUARE THEATRE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER MU INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Farm and Market Project: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA BOYCHOIR: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Savvy: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD: $3,410 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVOCALESSENCE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity School of Excellence: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lift Garage: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUPSTREAM ARTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBESTPREP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCLIMATE GENERATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUBMAN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEAM Academy: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PAUL YOUTH SERVICES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Paul Art Collective: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRIVER VALLEY RIDERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMPAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
  • Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
  • Who funds Tree Trust ↗
  • Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET CO-LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds Illusion Theater and School Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ↗
  • Who funds THE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
  • Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds PARK SQUARE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THEATER MU INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Youth Farm and Market Project ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA BOYCHOIR ↗
  • Who funds World Savvy ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
  • Who funds VOCALESSENCE ↗
  • Who funds Community School of Excellence ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLYING GOOD INC ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Hardenbergh FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustHb Fuller Company Fou…William Boss Foundati…Mardag FoundationElmer L & Eleanor J A…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN60.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Hb Fuller Company Foundation · William Boss Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Elmer L & Eleanor J Andersen Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lilian Wright & C Emil Berglund Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lilian Wright & C Emil Berglund Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Lilian Wright & C Emil Berglund Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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