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Medtronic Communities Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$7.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

27
’20
46
’21
28
’22
41
’23
9
’24
15
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$56MInternational$31MEducation$16MHealth$5.3MHuman Services$5.3MCrime & Legal$5.0MArts & Culture$2.9MScience & Tech$2.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $250k+10 grants · $16M
$253,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KENNEDY DONOVAN CENTER INC: $30k → 7%NEW HOPE INC: $20k → 11%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $750k → 14%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $10k → 5%CAND AID: $50k → 12%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $750k → 14%CAND AID: $20k → 12%GIRLS WHO CODE: $188k → 17%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $750k → 14%HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $25k → 17%CAND AID: $10k → 12%GIRLS WHO CODE: $125k → 17%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 14%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE: $50k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE: $20k → 12%AIN DAH YUNG CENTER: $20k → 14%LA LUZ CENTER: $30k → 9%CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 9%URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $45k → 11%SEWA AIFW: $20k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $5k → 11%SPARK YOUTH: $245k → 11%SPARK YOUTH: $175k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $50k → 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

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 45% of Medtronic Communities Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Medtronic Communities Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$65M · 46 repeat orgs$9.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
77

Total granted

$65M
$9.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+9%

Still filing today

74%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • NA
    NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +0%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +28%
  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • PR
    PUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue +20%
  • PR
    PUERTO RICO PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST (A PROGRAM OF THE PUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHN
    one grant, 2020 · $900k
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +100%
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
5
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
6
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
7
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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8
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
9
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
10
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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11
University Health Inc

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…

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12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 133 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/100
Grantees still filing
63/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $54,507,604 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND+10 more: $1,805,000 · PhilanthropyMEDTRONIC GLOBAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $21,242,764 · InternationalMEDTRONIC GLOBAL HEALTH FO…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $3,175,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $2,390,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORP…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,358,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-…+6 more: $1,257,500 · InternationalThurgood Marshall College Fund: $10,000,000 · EducationThurgood Ma…WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $977,000 · EducationWALLIN EDUC…+13 more: $2,756,691 · Education+13 morePUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY &: $2,600,000 · OtherPUERTO RICO SCI…CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $2,235,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEAR…NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER: $1,541,300 · OtherNORTHERN CALIFO…SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL: $927,600 · OtherPUERTO RICO PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST (A PROGRAM OF THE PUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHN: $900,000 · OtherHealthFinders Collaborative Inc: $1,101,000 · OtherHealthFinders C…PUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH TRUST: $1,400,000 · OtherPUERTO RICO SCI…+69 more: $7,323,491 · Other+69 moreNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $5,000,000 · Crime & LegalEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $3,250,000 · Human ServicesSpark Youth: $419,500 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $312,500 · Human Services+13 more: $560,000 · Human ServicesTHE BAKKEN: $2,302,500 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$56,312,604International$30,423,264Education$13,733,691Other$18,028,391Crime & Legal$5,000,000Human Services$4,542,000Arts & Culture$2,477,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $54,507,604 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMEDTRONIC GLOBAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $21,242,764 over 2y, 100% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $10,000,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $5,000,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $3,250,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $3,175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $2,390,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,358,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BAKKEN: $2,302,500 over 5y, 53% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $2,235,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetPUERTO RICO SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH TRUST: $1,400,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHealthFinders Collaborative Inc: $1,101,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $977,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $780,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $710,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpark Youth: $419,500 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetFAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $386,757 over 1y, 31% of budgetCEDAR RIVERSIDE PEOPLE'S CENTER: $375,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE GALWAY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $358,001 over 2y, 53% of budgetTHE CALTECH Y: $351,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $312,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLandPaths: $270,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTWO BIT CIRCUS FOUNDATION: $255,880 over 1y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMY INC: $250,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTARBASE MINNESOTA INC: $250,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $228,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget10000 DEGREES: $220,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE: $211,310 over 1y, 69% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern California Center For Well-Being: $200,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $157,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY: $145,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $105,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOVATION: $105,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetEUREKA ENRICHMENT SERVICES: $100,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHealthcare Ready: $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% 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…Otto Bremer TrustXcel Energy FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Fr Bigelow FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…Cargill FoundationTarget FoundationNorthwest Area Founda…Greater Twin Cities U…George Family Foundat…The Bush Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN36.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Medtronic Communities Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Medtronic Communities Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Medtronic Communities Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Medtronic Communities 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 133 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home