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Minnesota Community Foundation

Purpose: we inspire generosity, advocate for equity and invest in community-led solutions.

$31M
Granted FY2019
421
Grants FY2019
23
States reached
$2.1M
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 FY2017–2019.

Education$18MHealth$16MArts & Culture$14MHuman Services$8.4MPhilanthropy$7.7MReligion$3.3MEnvironment$2.6MYouth Development$2.5MOther$0
02FY2019 · 421 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k128 grants · $851k
  • $10k–50k207 grants · $4.4M
  • $50k–250k59 grants · $5.2M
  • $250k+27 grants · $20M
$15,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH$2,100,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$1,599,474
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$1,526,422
BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC$1,500,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOT$1,220,859
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$1,129,537
LAKEVIEW METHODIST HEALTH CARE CENT$1,046,848
JUXTAPOSITION INC$1,002,500
THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST$960,841
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$954,314
MAYO CLINIC$675,665
ST ANDREWS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHU$650,000
LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC$632,433
PROJECT SUCCESS-STUDENTS UNDERTAKIN$563,400
DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT$500,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $15.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALEXANDRIA AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%HOPE CENTERS FOR CHILDREN OF AFRICA: $120k → 5%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150k → 11%HESHIMA ASSOCIATION: $75k → 7%HESHIMA ASSOCIATION: $65k → 7%ST JOHN LUTHERAN HOME: $27k → 8%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $150k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIE: $37k → 11%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $632k → 6%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIELD INC: $24k → 11%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $514k → 6%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIELD INC: $17k → 11%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $347k → 6%FAMILY Y OF ALBERT LEA MINNESOTA IN: $18k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA FUND: $6.5M → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH: $2.1M → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $321k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS-FRIENDS OF THE ELDE: $25k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $56k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $33k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOT: $1.2M → 14%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $25k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $750k → 14%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $20k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $37k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $41k → 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $345k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $40k → 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $335k → 14%AIN DAH YUNG OUR HOME SHELTER: $40k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $35k → 14%INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $105k → 14%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROG: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC: $20k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $52k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $27k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $22k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $20k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $500k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $21k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $30k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $30k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $22k → 11%MIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $35k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $103k → 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
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$58M · 313 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

313 repeat relationships — 269 still active in FY2019, 44 since wound down; 139 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

313
231

Total granted

$58M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+39%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $8.6M · revenue +967% · 35% of their budget
  • MP
    MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4.7M · revenue +5%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4.3M · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $750k · revenue +91%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $750k · revenue +244%
  • MA
    Minneapolis American Indian Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +211%

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
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 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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3
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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4
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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6
African Development Center

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

Human Services
7
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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8
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
9
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
10
Minnesota State Fair Foundation

The minnesota state fair foundation's mission is to preserve and improve the historic minnesota state fairgrounds and support state fair programs and projects in agriculture, arts & culture, education, the environment, and history.

Philanthropy
11
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Northside Boxing Club Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic University Foundatio…Community Arts OrganizationsGovernment Accountability R…Community Health CentersLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Native Hawaiian Community D…Animal Rescue and AdoptionDevelopmental Disabilities …Christian Missionary Organi…Education Equity LeadershipIndependent K-8 SchoolsChild and Family ServicesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Public School District Foun…Faith-Based Senior LivingHomeless Services & ShelterRotary Club FoundationsWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Jewish Community FederationsChristian Youth CampsSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Public Library SupportYouth Sports Booster Organi…Fallen First Responder Supp…Early Childhood Education C…At-Risk Youth MentoringMuslim Community Organizati…Hospice Care ServicesSubstance Abuse TreatmentElementary Literacy TutoringAffordable Housing Developm…Affordable Housing Developm…Ymca Community CentersCancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way FederationsFood Pantries & AssistanceChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Senior Support ServicesUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Classical Music EnsemblesSmall Business Development …Youth Development CentersYouth Ice Hockey ProgramsLand Conservation Organizat…Community FoundationsPregnancy Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr18%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr18%36%55yr+

The field is 17% 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 — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%3/705
the rest of the field
10%
3,827/38,284

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

496 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. 496 of the 706 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.

34
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
138
Early backer (in before they grew)
483/496
Grantees still filing
371/496
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $1,771,667 · OtherFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY CO…ST ANDREWS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — $950,000 · OtherWARROAD MEMORIAL ARENA ASSOCIATION — $907,785 · OtherMINNESOTA ZOO — $880,936 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $750,181 · OtherJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $1,073,975 · Other+97 more — $15,683,573 · Other+97 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES FOUNDATION — $8,600,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD NOR…LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC — $1,492,805 · Human ServicesLIFEWORKS SERVICES INCLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $1,315,096 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVIC…AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $1,001,893 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUND…INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA — $750,250 · Human ServicesMinneapolis American Indian Center — $500,250 · Human Services+10 more — $1,168,860 · Human Services+10 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $4,341,502 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNE…SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $2,687,209 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA…IRONWORLD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,188,455 · EducationIRONWORLD DEVELOPME…PROJECT SUCCESS — $802,775 · EducationPROJECT SUCCESSHIAWATHA ACADEMIES — $525,000 · EducationItasca Community College Foundation — $500,000 · Education+21 more — $2,669,113 · Education+21 moreMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $4,670,703 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC…THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BETTER ANGEL…FAIRMONT OPERA HOUSE INC — $517,920 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $508,134 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE BANDSHELL PARK INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureLANESBORO ARTS CENTER — $500,000 · Arts & CultureILAN-LAEL INC DBA ILAN-LAEL FOUNDATION — $450,000 · Arts & CultureFILMNORTH — $400,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $1,971,620 · Arts & Culture+11 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $1,526,422 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADV…NORTHFIELD SHARES — $1,322,947 · PhilanthropyNORTHFIEL…THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST — $960,841 · PhilanthropyTHE US CH…GIVEMN — $648,283 · PhilanthropyGIVEMNVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $445,235 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD …PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Philanthropy+8 more — $1,059,168 · Philanthropy+8 moreMAYO CLINIC — $1,338,915 · HealthMAYO CLIN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA — $1,099,854 · HealthPLANNED P…LAKEVIEW METHODIST HEALTH CARE CENTER — $1,046,848 · HealthLAKEVIEW …ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN HOME — $1,004,736 · HealthST JOHN'S…CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $500,000 · HealthCENTRACAR…Fairview Foundation — $210,250 · Health+9 more — $992,204 · Health+9 moreFRESH MINISTRIES INC — $500,000 · Community ImprovementMINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $439,370 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $302,390 · Community ImprovementGRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $152,403 · Community ImprovementINITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $90,000 · Community ImprovementBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $67,000 · Community Improvement
Other$22,018,117Human Services$14,829,154Education$12,714,054Arts & Culture$11,018,377Philanthropy$6,212,896Health$6,192,807Community Improvement$1,551,163

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES FOUNDATION — $8,600,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $4,670,703 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $4,341,502 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $2,687,209 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $1,526,422 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC — $1,500,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetLIFEWORKS SERVICES INC — $1,492,805 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $1,338,915 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD SHARES — $1,322,947 over 1y, 90% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $1,315,096 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIRONWORLD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,188,455 over 3y, 19% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA — $1,099,854 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $1,073,975 over 3y, 43% of budgetLAKEVIEW METHODIST HEALTH CARE CENTER — $1,046,848 over 1y, 11% of budgetST JOHN'S LUTHERAN HOME — $1,004,736 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $1,001,893 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST — $960,841 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWARROAD MEMORIAL ARENA ASSOCIATION — $907,785 over 3y, 80% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS — $802,775 over 3y, 10% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA — $750,250 over 1y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $750,181 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIVEMN — $648,283 over 3y, 17% of budgetHIAWATHA ACADEMIES — $525,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFAIRMONT OPERA HOUSE INC — $517,920 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $508,134 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE — $504,304 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BANDSHELL PARK INC — $500,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetFRESH MINISTRIES INC — $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetItasca Community College Foundation — $500,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT — $500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMankato Area Foundation — $494,893 over 2y, 25% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $439,370 over 2y, 78% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA — $413,750 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetFILMNORTH — $400,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY — $382,957 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetONE HEARTLAND — $370,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCRAFT IN AMERICA — $350,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFIRST PEOPLES FUND — $305,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $303,538 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $302,390 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTHE HILLS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $300,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $300,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society — $273,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $271,343 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA — $261,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $261,332 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 3.6% 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Greater Twin Cities U…The Minneapolis Found…Fr Bigelow FoundationOtto Bremer TrustMargaret a Cargill Fo…Minnesota Historical …Pohlad Family Foundat…C K Blandin FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Mardag FoundationSouthern Minnesota In…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN201× affinity386 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · Pohlad Family Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Southern Minnesota Initiative 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 Minnesota Community 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 706 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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