· Private foundation
Mark and Muriel Wexler Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MINNESOTA | $67,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $65,000 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $45,000 |
| NAMI MINNESOTA | $32,500 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY UPPER MIDWEST CHAPTER | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER | $20,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE UPPER MIDWEST | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA9× · 2017–2025 · $348k · revenue +1%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +105%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE7× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- PNPAUL NEWMAN ROUND UP RIVER RANCHone grant, 2018 · $15k
- PNPAUL NEWMAN ROUND UP RIVERone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
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 citizens league is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that empowers people to engage in civic life and public policy, to make minnesota a better place to live and work for everyone.
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…
Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…
We exist to ensure that all students learn. we support their growth into knowledgeable, skilled, and confident citizens capable of succeeding in their work, personal, and family lives into the 21st century. mft represents its membership,…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds NAMI MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Coalition of Asian American Leaders ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mark and Muriel Wexler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark and Muriel Wexler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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