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Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries

The miller-dwan foundation improves the health of the people of our region through the creation of impactful community solutions that overcome barriers.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$449k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$6.9MEducation$226kYouth Development$100kHuman Services$86kCrime & Legal$40kArts & Culture$27kHousing & Shelter$15kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $653,605 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,233,547 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $579,942 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $118k
  • $250k+1 grant · $449k
$24,634
Median grant
2
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESSENTIA HEALTH$449,290
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$62,266
COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA$55,900
NORTH LAKES COMMUNITY CLINIC$24,634
HGA$16,650
TRANS NORTHLAND$15,000
MN MASONIC CHILDRENS$15,000
MINNESOTA BALLET$14,865
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%YMCA: $15k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 15%TRANS NORTHLAND: $15k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 15%DAMIANO CENTER: $16k → 15%DAMIANO CENTER: $10k → 15%DAMIANO CENTER: $8k → 15%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.

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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.1M · 17 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
16

Total granted

$7.1M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+37%

Still filing today

71%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • EH
    ESSENTIA HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +123%
  • LS
    LAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
    4× · 2019–2022 · $130k · revenue +41%
  • EI
    ESSENTIA INSTITUTE OF RURAL HEALTH
    4× · 2017–2022 · $116k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AI
    ASPIRUS IRON RIVER HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +3%
  • MA
    MN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • RH
    RURAL HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +33%

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
Duluth Graduate Medical Education Council Inc

Provide a medical residency program, in conjunction with the university of minnesota, and supported by essentia health and aspirus st. luke's hospital of duluth, for the training of family medicine physicians in association with that…

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2
Benedictine Living Communities - Bismarck Inc Dba St Gabriels Community

We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…

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3
Trinity Health & Affiliates

Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.

Health
4
The Duluth Clinic Ltd

We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.

Health
5
Benedictine Living Community of St Peter

Benedictine living community - st. peter is a catholic organization entrusted with advancing the health care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. our mission is to witness to god's love by providing compassionate,…

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6
Centracare Health System - Sauk Centre

We're here for your whole life to listen, then serve, to guide and heal because health means everything.

Health
7
Cerenity Senior Care

The mission of cerenity senior care's faith-based communities is to cultivate independence and dignity by empowering the people we serve through innovation, compassion and excellence.

Health
8
Benedictine Living Community - Owatonna

We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…

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9
Benedictine Senior Living Community of St Peter Dba Benedictine Court

We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…

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10
Benedictine Care Centers

We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating compassionate communities providing support…

Health
11
Villa St Benedict

See schedule o.the corporation was created and organized to own, maintain, operate and conduct facilities for the long-term and congregate care, and assisted and independent living to the elderly in a single campus community, as well as to…

Housing & Shelter
12
City of Lakes Care Center D/B/a Benedictine Health Center of Mpls

We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Essentia Health and the most unlike its peers is 23RD Veteran. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%8%<5yr13%4%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr15%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr18%86%20–35yr15%6%35–55yr15%3%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/36
the rest of the field
14%
1,572/10,841

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 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)
25/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ESSENTIA HEALTH — $5,797,075 · HealthESSENTIA HEALTH+9 more — $437,687 · Health+9 moreMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION HOSPICE HOUSEAMBERWING LLC — $115,461 · OtherMILLER-DWA…THE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $112,746 · OtherTHE LAKES …PROGRAM FOR AID TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT — $110,000 · OtherPROGRAM FO…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $73,380 · OtherUNIVERSITY…COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION — $70,000 · OtherCOURAGE KE…ST ANN'S HOME — $68,691 · OtherST ANN'S H…NORTH LAKES COMMUNITY CLINIC — $24,634 · Other+9 more — $109,190 · Other+9 moreCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC — $122,410 · EducationThe George Washington University — $62,266 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $9,100 · EducationLIFE HOUSE INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentDULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA — $50,119 · Human ServicesDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC — $33,745 · Human ServicesTrans Northland — $15,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA BALLET INC — $26,940 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter23RD VETERAN — $10,000 · Public Benefit
Health$6,234,762Other$684,102Education$208,776Youth Development$100,000Human Services$98,864Arts & Culture$26,940Housing & Shelter$15,000Public Benefit$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetESSENTIA HEALTH — $5,797,075 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $130,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC — $122,410 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetESSENTIA INSTITUTE OF RURAL HEALTH — $115,646 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LAKES COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $112,746 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROGRAM FOR AID TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT — $110,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC — $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST ANN'S HOME — $68,691 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS — $65,503 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetThe George Washington University — $62,266 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA — $50,119 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING — $46,585 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC — $33,745 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA BALLET INC — $26,940 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetASPIRUS IRON RIVER HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRURAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWell Being Development — $19,953 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetINNOVATIVE SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFIRST COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATON — $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget23RD VETERAN — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $9,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEDICTINE HEALTH CENTER — $6,611 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMDC MEDICAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Duluth-Superior Area …Ordean FoundationLloyd K Johnson Found…Northland FoundationSmdc Medical CenterHead of the Lakes Uni…Minnesota Power Found…Otto Bremer TrustPachel FoundationSecond Harvest Northl…Lahti Family Foundati…St Mary's Medical Cen…
Duluth-Superior Area Community FoundationMN42.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Northland Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Head of the Lakes United Way · Minnesota Power Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pachel Foundation · Second Harvest Northland · Lahti Family Foundation · St Mary's Medical Center

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 Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries 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 · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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.

    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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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