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Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$750k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Health$5.1MEmployment$89kHuman Services$46kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kHousing & Shelter$11kYouth Development$6kReligion$5k
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $1,030,307 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,291,072 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $260,765 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

  • Under $10k27 grants · $178k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $102k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$7,547
Median grant
1
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINNESOTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$750,000
M HEALTH FAIRVIEW ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL$15,190
ALOMERE HEALTH$15,102
M HEALTH FAIRVIEW WOODWINDS HOSPITAL$13,699
M HEALTH FAIRVIEW RIDGES HOSPITAL$13,028
M HEALTH FAIRVIEW SOUTHDALE$12,243
MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$12,100
APPLETON AREA HEALTH$10,559
COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC DBA SPRING VALLEY LIVING$10,546
OAK HILL ASSISTED LIVING$9,342
ST OTTO'S CARE CENTER$9,120
M HEALTH FAIRVIEW UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL CENTER$8,384
LIFECARE MEDICAL CENTER$8,353
GILLETTE CHILDREN'S SPECIALTY HEALTHCARE$8,320
TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH$8,294
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 (FY17–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ST JOHN'S CIRCLE OF CARE: $5k → 8%ECUMEN DETROIT LAKES: $6k → 10%ECUMEN DETROIT LAKES: $5k → 10%KNUTE NELSON: $5k → 9%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $8k → 11%ECUMEN: $5k → 14%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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 32 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
83

Total granted

$2.4M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+34%

Still filing today

47%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $821k 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
HealthHuman ServicesReligionHousing & 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

  • FH
    Fairview Health Services
    7× · 2017–2024 · $940k · revenue +42%
  • AH
    ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM
    3× · 2018–2020 · $171k · revenue +30%
  • LM
    LifeCare Medical Center
    6× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • SC
    ST CLOUD HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $112k · revenue +29%
  • RH
    REGIONS HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $112k · revenue +35%
  • HH
    HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $109k · revenue +41%

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
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
2
SwedishAmerican Hospital

Through excellence in healthcare and compassionate service, we care for our community.

Health
3
Garrison Memorial Hospital

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
4
Essentia Health

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

Health
5
Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital

We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…

Health
6
Madison Community Hospital

Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.

Health
7
Endeavor Health Medical Group

Endeavor Health Medical Group (EHMG) follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…

Health
8
Innovis Health Llc

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

Health
9
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital

Legacy Meridian Park Hospital (LMPH), established in 1973, is a community hospital in Tualatin, OR, south of Portland with 150 licensed beds. LMPH serves the needs of the fast growing communities of Tualatin, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sherwood,…

Health
10
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
11
The Duluth Clinic Ltd

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

Health
12
Healtheast Woodwinds Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centracare Health System - Melrose and the most unlike its peers is Ecumen Sbc Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%3%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr18%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%1%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr16%35%35–55yr18%18%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/127
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,862

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

73 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 127 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
61/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Fairview Health Services — $939,801 · HealthFairview Health ServicesALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM — $170,676 · HealthALLINA HEALTH SYSTEMST CLOUD HOSPITAL — $112,376 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL — $112,104 · HealthHENNEPIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC — $109,381 · Health+56 more — $1,376,937 · Health+56 moreMINNESOTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $750,000 · OtherMINNESOTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONMOOSE LAKE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DISTRICT — $142,763 · OtherMOOSE LAKE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DISTRICTSANFORD — $113,218 · OtherST OTTO'S CARE CENTER INC — $111,926 · OtherUNITED HOSPITAL — $91,686 · OtherPARK NICOLLET GROUP RETURN — $87,874 · Other+54 more — $1,122,449 · Other+54 moreECUMEN SBC INC — $16,596 · Human ServicesTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — $8,294 · Human ServicesST JOHN LUTHERAN HOME — $5,400 · Human ServicesKnute Nelson — $5,000 · Human ServicesEbenezer Lakes Assisted Living — $13,204 · Housing & ShelterCASSIA — $5,200 · Religion
Health$2,821,275Other$2,419,916Human Services$35,290Housing & Shelter$13,204Religion$5,200

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 budgetFairview Health Services — $939,801 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM — $170,676 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST CLOUD HOSPITAL — $112,376 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL — $112,104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC — $109,381 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK NICOLLET GROUP RETURN — $87,874 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE DBA NORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH — $83,791 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeCare Medical Center — $80,975 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER — $72,901 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE — $64,462 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF DULUTH — $61,195 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $56,314 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGillette Children's Specialty Healthcare — $45,678 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Itasca Clinic and Hospital — $36,785 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERVIEW HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION — $34,608 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST FRANCIS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $31,462 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGEVIEW MEDICAL CENTER — $31,462 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStevens Community Medical Center — $31,377 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASTERA HEALTH — $31,241 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLMSTED MEDICAL CENTER — $31,220 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILLE LACS HEALTH SYSTEM — $28,713 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMDC MEDICAL CENTER — $26,348 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER — $25,531 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC — $22,751 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH'S AREA HEALTH SERVICES — $21,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN PINES MEDICAL CENTER — $20,809 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE REGION HEALTHCARE CORPORATION — $17,908 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON HEALTHCARE SERVICES — $17,304 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $17,304 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITTSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $17,304 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHendricks Community Hospital Association — $17,304 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FALLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $17,304 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELY-BLOOMENSON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL — $17,304 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWarren Community Hospital Inc — $17,304 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Hospital District — $17,304 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADELIA HEALTH — $17,304 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM — $17,304 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUYUNA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $17,304 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEVIEW MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $15,731 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE VIEW MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $15,731 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACEVILLE HEALTH CENTER — $15,731 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM - SAUK CENTRE — $15,731 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvera Tyler — $15,731 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAvera Marshall — $15,731 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM - LONG PRAIRIE — $15,731 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY FAMILY HEALTHCARE — $15,731 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENCOE REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES — $15,731 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.

  • Who funds Fairview Health Services
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM
  • Who funds ST CLOUD HOSPITAL
  • Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL
  • Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC
  • Who funds PARK NICOLLET GROUP RETURN
  • Who funds NORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE DBA NORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH
  • Who funds LifeCare Medical Center
  • Who funds ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF DULUTH
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
  • Who funds Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital
  • Who funds RIVERVIEW HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds RIDGEVIEW MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds Stevens Community Medical Center
  • Who funds ASTERA HEALTH
  • Who funds OLMSTED MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds MILLE LACS HEALTH SYSTEM
  • Who funds SMDC MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL CENTER

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 Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable TrustNY56.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust · Leadingage Minnesota Foundation · College of St Scholastica Inc · Southwest Initiative Foundation · Hennepin Healthcare System Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Wilderness Health Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Northwest Minnesota Foundation · Reach Out and Read Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Hospital Association 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 127 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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