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Mary T and James J Hill Library Foundation

THE MTJJHLF IS A GRANTMAKING FOUNDATION, INSPIRED BY THE SPIRIT OF ITS FOUNDERS, WHOSE CHARITABLE PURPOSE IS TO SPUR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUPPORT NEW AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURS IN SAINT PAUL, MN.

$995k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$170k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.2MCommunity Improvement$1.1MScience & Tech$200kYouth Development$200kFood & Nutrition$50kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $970k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MARKET ENTRY FUND$170,000
METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FDN$150,000
IMPACT HUB MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL$150,000
FRIENDS OF ST PAUL COLLEGE FDN$100,000
CONNECTUP INSTITUTE$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA$100,000
ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY$100,000
COOKIE CART$50,000
URBAN ROOTS MN$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$25,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LUNAR ACCELERATOR PROGRAM: $200k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $100k → 9%IMPACT HUB MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL: $150k → 11%LUNAR INC DBA LUNAR STARTUPS: $150k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $50k → 9%IMPACT HUB MINNESOTA: $150k → 11%FRIENDS OF ST PAUL COLLEGE FDN: $120k → 14%IMPACT HUB MINNESOTA: $150k → 11%FRIENDS OF ST PAUL COLLEGE FDN: $100k → 14%IMPACT HUB MN AKA MN SOCIAL IMPACT: $120k → 11%FRIENDS OF ST PAUL COLLEGE FDN: $100k → 14%COOKIE CART: $50k → 11%FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE FDTN: $50k → 14%METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FDN: $150k → 14%METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FDN: $120k → 14%ST PAUL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FDTN: $50k → 14%ST PAUL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FDTN: $50k → 14%GREATER MSP: $25k → 14%GREATER MSP: $25k → 14%RICE PARK ASSOCIATIONST PAUL PARK CONSERVANCY: $15k → 14%CONNECTUP INSTITUTE: $100k → 14%CONNECTUP INSTITUTE: $100k → 14%ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 14%THE MARKET ENTRY FUND: $170k → 14%ST CATHERINE UNIVERISTY: $150k → 14%ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $135k → 14%ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $117k → 14%MARKET ENTRY FUND: $100k → 14%ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%MARKET ENTRY FUND: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $25k → 14%ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 14%URBAN ROOTS MN: $50k → 14%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 10 repeat orgs$795k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$3.3M
$545k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-12%

Still filing today

80%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • SC
    ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +3%
  • MS
    METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $270k · revenue +25%
  • CI
    CONNECTUP INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • LA
    LUNAR ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • LI
    LUNAR INC
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -78%
  • IH
    IMPACT HUB MSP
    one grant, 2021 · $120k · revenue -33% · 32% of their budget
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 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
2
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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3
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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4
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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5
Minnesota State College Southeast Foundation

Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.

Education
6
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
7
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
8
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
9
Minnesota Private College Fund

The minnesota private college fund serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.

Education
10
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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11
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
12
Minnesota Private Business Council

The minnesota private business council fights to advance policies that grow minnesota jobs and to elect public officials committed to joining with us.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is St Catherine University. 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

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 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $1,518,000 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVERSITYMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $270,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONIMPACT HUB MSP: $120,000 · EducationIMPACT HUB MSP+3 more: $110,000 · Education+3 moreMARKET ENTRY FUND THE: $320,000 · OtherMARKET ENTRY FUND THEFRIENDS OF ST PAUL COLLEGE FDN: $320,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ST PAUL COLLEGE FDNIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLUNAR ACCELERATOR PROGRAM: $200,000 · OtherLUNAR ACCELERATOR PROGRAMLUNAR INC: $150,000 · OtherLUNAR INCIMPACT HUB MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL: $150,000 · OtherIMPACT HUB MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAULSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITAB…+1 more: $50,000 · OtherCONNECTUP INSTITUTE: $200,000 · Community ImprovementMINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Cookie Cart: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SAINT PAUL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · Environment
Education$2,018,000Other$1,590,000Community Improvement$250,000Youth Development$200,000Environment$15,000

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 budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $1,518,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMARKET ENTRY FUND THE: $320,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $270,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCONNECTUP INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetLUNAR INC: $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT HUB MSP: $120,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ROOTS MN: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SAINT PAUL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Fr Bigelow FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…Hardenbergh FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Bush FoundationYouthpriseTarget FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Mightycause Charitabl…
Fr Bigelow FoundationMN24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fr Bigelow Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Youthprise · Target Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Mightycause Charitable 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 Mary T and James J Hill Library Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary T and James J Hill Library Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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