· Private foundation
Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $607k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC | $25,000 |
| WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC | $25,000 |
| GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY | $20,000 |
| DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK | $20,000 |
| LUNDSTRUM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MN ND SD | $20,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL- TWIN CITI | $20,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIAT OF ST PAUL | $20,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH TWIN CITIES | $19,500 |
| MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS | $15,000 |
| YOUTHLINK | $15,000 |
| WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION DIANE ALAN PAG | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE ST PAUL M | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +38% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
71 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 18 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +128%
- OAOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA8× · 2018–2025 · $158k · revenue +203%
- GMGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY7× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- BLBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CRCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL TWIN CITIEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- MAMetropolitan Alliance of Connected Communitiesone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +1%
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.
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…
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
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…
Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.
The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.
How this is measured
105 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. 105 of the 136 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 WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds LUNDSTRUM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DBA LUNDSTRUM PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds Think Small ↗
- Who funds The Cowles Center ↗
- Who funds THE BANYAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL MUSIC COOPERATIVE-NORTH ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds NEWGATE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds Illusion Theater and School Inc ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds QUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SAVIOUR'S COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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 · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Target Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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