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Medtronic Global Health Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2023
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Grants FY2023
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States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.

Health$4.3MInternational$4.1MScience & Tech$1.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MCommunity Improvement$636kEducation$20kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$50,000
Median grant
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States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KARNATAKA HEALTH PROMOTION TRUST$50,000
02The need
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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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($11M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($1.2M) is mapped below.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SEED GLOBAL HEALTH: $5k → 16%HEALTHFINDERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $335k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%JUSTUS HEALTH: $10k → 14%NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR WELL BEING: $85k → 9%PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: $100k → 10%MOTHERS2MOTHERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $300k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $400k → 14%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $500k → 17%GRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $300k → 20%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $200k → 14%AMERICARES: $800k → 9%LWALA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $60k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY - DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $468k → 11%CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH METRICS AND EVALUATION IHME: $618k → 9%IMPACT INVESTMENT EXCHANGE PTE LTD (IIX): $95k → 8%HEALTHFINDERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $300k → 11%CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $500k → 11%OPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 14%WOMEN IN GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $30k → 10%MOTHERS2MOTHERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $262k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $50k → 14%BRAC USA: $300k → 17%GRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $276k → 20%LIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORP: $50k → 14%RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE: $1.6M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH METRICS AND EVALUATION IHME: $297k → 9%HEALTHFINDERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $5k → 11%CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $120k → 11%CHILDRENS HOSPITALS & CLINICS OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BRAC USA: $257k → 17%DEVELOPMENT EX WASHINGTON DC: $5k → 14%RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE: $188k → 11%CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $100k → 11%BRAC USA: $44k → 17%UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10k → 11%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $10k → 17%WELLSHARE INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 11%NORTHPOINT HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER INC: $10k → 11%HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER: $60k → 11%NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $10k → 11%CEDAR RIVERSIDE PEOPLES CENTER: $385k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
NY
MA
CT
CA
TN
NC
DC
GA

Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($1.2M)

5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$510k · 3 grants
Kenya$349k · 2 grants
Australia$210k · 1 grant
Singapore$95k · 1 grant
Switzerland$56k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of Medtronic Global Health 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.

Medtronic Global Health Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.6M · 11 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
26

Total granted

$7.6M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+6%

Still filing today

73%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthInternationalEducationScience & TechCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

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

  • RT
    Research Triangle Institute
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.8M · revenue +53%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK
    3× · 2020–2022 · $720k · revenue +61%
  • HC
    HealthFinders Collaborative Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $640k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $800k · revenue +28%
  • UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -74%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
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
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
4
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
5
Glencoe Regional Health Services

Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…

Health
6
Intealth

See schedule oto serve the public by:- assuring the qualifications of health care professionals- providing primary-source verification of credentials of health careprofessionals, as they serve throughout the world- supporting international…

Education
7
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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8
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
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National Coalition On Health Care

The mission of the national coalition on health care (nchc) is to support research and analysis, develop and promote policy solutions, build consensus, and engage the public in order to ensure that america has a high quality health system…

Health
11
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
12
North Olympic Healthcare Network

To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifenet International Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Wellshare International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,540

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.

05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherCENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH METRICS AND EVALUATION IHME — $915,434 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR HEAL…CHILDREN'S HEARTLINK — $719,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEARTLINKKARNATAKA HEALTH PROMOTION TRUST — $509,958 · OtherKARNATAKA HEALTH PROMOTION TRUSTDUKE UNIVERSITY - DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $468,323 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY - DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH IN…NORTH STAR ALLIANCE EAST AFRICA — $348,521 · OtherNORTH STAR ALLIANCE EAST AFRICATELETHON INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH — $209,924 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $200,000 · Other+5 more — $225,800 · OtherAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCBRAC USA INC — $601,198 · InternationalBRAC USA INCUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $510,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICE…UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION IN…DIRECT RELIEF — $450,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF+3 more — $112,500 · InternationalHealthFinders Collaborative Inc — $640,000 · HealthHealthFinders Coll…MOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC — $561,841 · HealthMOTHERS2MOTHERS UN…CEDAR RIVERSIDE PEOPLE'S CENTER — $384,600 · HealthCEDAR RIVERSIDE PE…LAST MILE HEALTH — $110,000 · HealthLAST MILE HEALTHPublic Health Institute — $100,000 · HealthNorthern California Center For Well-Being — $85,000 · Health+4 more — $40,000 · HealthResearch Triangle Institute — $1,763,580 · Science & TechResearch Triangl…GRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $575,920 · Community ImprovementWOMEN IN GLOBAL HEALTH INC — $30,000 · Public BenefitUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationSEED GLOBAL HEALTH — $5,000 · EducationNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,597,460International$2,973,698Health$1,921,441Science & Tech$1,763,580Community Improvement$575,920Public Benefit$30,000Education$25,000Crime & Legal$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetResearch Triangle Institute — $1,763,580 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK — $719,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetHealthFinders Collaborative Inc — $640,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetBRAC USA INC — $601,198 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $575,920 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC — $561,841 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $510,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $450,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR RIVERSIDE PEOPLE'S CENTER — $384,600 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLAST MILE HEALTH — $110,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPublic Health Institute — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern California Center For Well-Being — $85,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLwala Community Alliance — $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIFENET INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN IN GLOBAL HEALTH INC — $30,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOW HEALTH MINNESOTA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEED GLOBAL HEALTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSHARE INTERNATIONAL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Medtronic Communities…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Medica FoundationOtto Bremer TrustDelta Dental of Minne…Ucare FoundationAllina Health SystemMightycause Charitabl…Ucare MinnesotaConrad N Hilton Found…Greater Houston Commu…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Medtronic Communities Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Medica Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundation · Ucare Foundation · Allina Health System · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ucare Minnesota · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Greater Houston Community 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 Global Health 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Medtronic Global Health Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Medtronic Global Health 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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where grant money is based, and what stays home