· Public charity
Minnesota Humanities Center
To spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through shared experiences.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 90 grants below total $3,912,543 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,201,323 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $288,780 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 $10k13 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+2 grants · $845k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Minnesota Childrens Museum | $472,500 |
| Hunger Solutions Minnesota | $372,659 |
| Springboard for the | $237,406 |
| Giiwedinong Museum | $177,188 |
| Asian Economic Development Association | $105,203 |
| Great River Children's Museum | $102,500 |
| Reviving The Islamic Sisterhood For Empowerment | $102,284 |
| The Works Museum | $85,657 |
| Rondo Community Land Trust | $78,750 |
| Film Society of Minneapolis St Paul | $77,000 |
| Somali Museum of Min | $75,000 |
| WonderTrek Children's Museum | $70,053 |
| NEOMURALISMOS DE MEX | $66,500 |
| Speaking Out Collective | $65,000 |
| Learning Law and Dem | $64,723 |
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 human-services grants (FY18–24, $730k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMinnesota Children's Museum9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +98%
- CMCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA9× · 2017–2025 · $873k · revenue +122%
- DCDULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $671k · revenue +17% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- R5REGION 5 CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $113k
- APARCATA PRESSone grant, 2023 · $83k
- CLCOMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICIOone grant, 2022 · $80k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
Non-profit
To spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through shared experiences.
Preservation of culture
Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.
The manoomin arts initiative (mai) is an indigenous-led artist-led creative community development organization that supports artists and cultivates the creative economy within the white earth nation and surrounding communities. we work…
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
We believe that performing arts can engage stimulate inspire challenge educate reflect,empower and nourish artists audiences and communities. We are committed to the cultural enrichment of Saint Pauls ethnically and economically diverse…
The Minnesota Multifaith Network is the statewide network supporting faith and interfaith leaders and organizations who work for a more just and loving world.
The mission of the Mankato Area Arts Council, DBA Carnegie Art Center, is to be a vibrant community destination that inspires, nurtures, and expands artistic, cultural, and educational experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Rice County Neighbors United. 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.
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 19 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
193 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. 193 of the 296 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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 Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds DULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Judy Garland Childrens Museum ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds KA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS DEFENSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Learning Law and Democracy Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds WHEEL AND COG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Somali Community Resettlement ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds SOMALI MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIIWEDINONG MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER OF THE NORT ↗
- Who funds OTTER COVE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WONDERTREK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE WORKS ↗
- Who funds Hmong Cultural Center ↗
- Who funds REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SEAD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS COMMUNITY SERVIC ↗
- Who funds SGU VETERANS & FAMILIES OF USA INC ↗
- Who funds North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · Youthprise · Target Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Bush 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 Humanities Center 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.
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.