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Lillehei Family Charitable Foundation Agency
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION | $135,000 |
| BRIGHTER DAYS GRIEF CTR | $12,500 |
| BAKKEN MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| CRESCENT COVE | $10,000 |
| TEAM HEART INC | $10,000 |
| NEW HOPE PERU | $10,000 |
| Sky High Hope Camp | $10,000 |
| Agate Housing and Services | $10,000 |
| MAGNUM CHORUM | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE LIFT GARAGE | $5,000 |
| Thanksgiving Meals On Wheels Inc | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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 +75% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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; $10k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $485k · revenue +137%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +76%
- MCMAGNUM CHORUM4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +209%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- NRNEUROSURGERY RESEARCH & EDUCATION FNDTone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.
CaringBridge has a single vision: a world where no one goes through a health journey alone. In order to turn this vision into reality, we've made it our mission to build bridges of care and communication providing love and support on a…
The child loss foundation continues to expand its reach and strives to be a nationally recognized leader in providing comprehensive support to parents grieving the death of a child through retreats, financial assistance and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New Hope Childrens Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BAKKEN ↗
- Who funds MAGNUM CHORUM ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER DAYS FAMILY GRIEF CENTER ↗
- Who funds Team Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH HOPE CAMP ↗
- Who funds New Hope Childrens Ministries ↗
- Who funds THANKSGIVING MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation ↗
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
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 Lillehei Family Charitable Foundation Agency 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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