· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEW HOPE PERU | $10,000 |
| TEAM HEART INC | $10,000 |
| Sky High Hope Camp | $10,000 |
| Agate Housing and Services | $10,000 |
| MAGNUM CHORUM | $10,000 |
| THE LIFT GARAGE | $5,000 |
| Thanksgiving Meals On Wheels Inc | $2,000 |
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 (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 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 +75% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lillehei Family Charitable Foundation Agency funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lillehei Family Charitable Foundation Agency. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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