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Longview Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.9M
Granted FY2023
201
Grants FY2023
28
States reached
$407k
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 2024.

Health$5.4MEducation$1.5MEnvironment$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MPhilanthropy$991kFood & Nutrition$877kReligion$784kAnimals$333kOther$0
02FY2023 · 201 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k151 grants · $428k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $689k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $697k
$3,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$407,000
MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM$290,000
DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY$177,000
THE FRANKLIN CENTER$160,500
FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER$122,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$111,500
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$110,000
MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION$90,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART$65,500
ORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION$63,000
BLAKE SCHOOL$55,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$54,500
MAYO CLINIC$53,000
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$46,500
FAMILY PARTNERSHIP$34,500
02The need
03

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 (FY20–23, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PEACE CENTER: $2k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 12%PEACE CENTER: $2k → 6%MYHEALTH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%BIG WONDER CHILD CARE: $500 → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $6k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $3k → 14%FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $43k → 11%FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $35k → 11%FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $28k → 11%MINNESOTA MASONIC CHARITIES: $1k → 11%TAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%FRASER: $5k → 11%FRASER: $5k → 11%FRASER: $2k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $4k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $4k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $4k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $4k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $4k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $4k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NH
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 214 repeat orgs$528k to everyone else

214 repeat relationships: 170 still active in FY2023, 44 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

214
86

Total granted

$12M
$416k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+34%

Still filing today

74%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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

  • FC
    FRANKLIN CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4.9M · revenue +165% · 57% of their budget
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    3× · 2020–2023 · $717k · revenue +17%
  • DC
    DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $410k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • MC
    MINNESOTA CENTRAL KITCHEN, 2ND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
  • LH
    LAKEWOOD HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -92%
  • VS
    V3 SPORTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -51%
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
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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3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
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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5
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
6
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
7
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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8
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
9
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
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Northside Boxing Club Inc. 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

212 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 212 of the 331 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)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
206/212
Grantees still filing
156/212
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRANKLIN CENTER: $4,904,800 · EducationFRANKLIN CENTERDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $409,500 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGYORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $280,500 · Education+28 more: $593,500 · Education+28 moreWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $719,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN C…MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM: $333,000 · OtherMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORE…MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $315,000 · OtherMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATIONThe Family Partnership: $130,000 · Other+103 more: $1,684,000 · Other+103 moreTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $467,500 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNE…GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $446,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER T…MINNESOTA VIKINGS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyJUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $95,700 · Philanthropy+6 moreMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $219,600 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $112,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART CENTER: $102,500 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $101,000 · Arts & CultureThe Minnesota Opera: $94,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $64,000 · Arts & CultureMILKWEED EDITIONS INC: $53,000 · Arts & CultureMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $46,500 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $44,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $142,900 · Arts & CultureSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $717,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $36,500 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $159,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $117,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $68,500 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $49,000 · EnvironmentDEER LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $31,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS: $26,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $22,000 · Environment+14 more: $146,500 · EnvironmentMAYO CLINIC: $181,000 · HealthHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $105,000 · HealthWashburn Center for Children: $69,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $58,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $25,500 · HealthMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $21,500 · HealthCOR RETREAT INC: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $21,000 · Health
Education$6,188,300Other$3,181,000Philanthropy$1,129,200Arts & Culture$979,500Food & Nutrition$753,500Environment$619,500Health$501,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFRANKLIN CENTER: $4,904,800 over 4y, 57% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $717,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $467,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $446,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $409,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $315,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $280,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $219,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $181,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $159,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $130,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $117,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $112,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $102,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $101,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $94,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $70,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $69,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $68,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER: $64,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $64,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA VIKINGS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetJUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $58,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILKWEED EDITIONS INC: $53,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMissoula Catholic Schools Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $49,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $46,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $44,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALIGHT: $38,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN VALLEY WALDORF ASSOCIATION DBA CEDARWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL: $37,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $36,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMINNEHAHA ACADEMY: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $32,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budget22KILL: $32,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDEER LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $31,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetWilliams College: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $28,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $26,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS: $26,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetV3 SPORTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The McKnight Foundati…Pohlad Family Foundat…Mortenson Family Foun…The Crosswols Foundat…Otto Bremer TrustMargaret a Cargill Fo…The K FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Minnesota Community F…Marbrook Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN72.8× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The Crosswols Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The K Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Marbrook 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 Longview Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Longview Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Catlin Gabel School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Longview Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Longview 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 331 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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