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Medtronic Communities Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Medtronic Communities Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Blackbaud Giving Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $250k+10 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | $7,119,681 |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND | $4,155,185 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $780,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS | $765,000 |
| EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC | $750,000 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC | $665,000 |
| BAKKEN | $500,000 |
| NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE | $310,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $253,000 |
| WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS | $252,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOUTHEAST SERVICE COOPERATIVE | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEARTLINK | $10,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $5,000 |
| JOBS FOR THE FUTURE | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 45% of Medtronic Communities Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NANORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE4× · 2022–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +0%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +28%- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS5× · 2020–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +24%
Funded once
- PRPUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue +20%
- PRPUERTO RICO PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST (A PROGRAM OF THE PUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHNone grant, 2020 · $900k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
End hunger together.
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Baehr Challenge Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 133 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDTRONIC GLOBAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAKKEN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH TRUST ↗
- Who funds HealthFinders Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Spark Youth ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RIVERSIDE PEOPLE'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GALWAY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CALTECH Y ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LandPaths ↗
- Who funds TWO BIT CIRCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARBASE MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Cargill Foundation · Target Foundation · Northwest Area Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · George Family Foundation · The Bush Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Medtronic Communities Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Clubhouse Network Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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