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Minnesota State High School League Foundation
The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Foundation is a nonprofit association, serving both public and private schools, created to compliment the MSHSL by providing support for Minnesota's high school youth to participate in athletic and fine arts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 84 grants below total $742,864 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,195,875 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $453,011 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k60 grants · $390k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $353k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Austin High School | $28,180 |
| Minnesota State High School League | $20,000 |
| Shakopee High School | $18,384 |
| Osseo High School | $17,179 |
| St Paul Como Park High School | $16,133 |
| St Paul Harding High School | $15,728 |
| Park Center High School | $15,383 |
| Apple Valley High School | $15,044 |
| Robbinsdale Armstrong High School | $14,304 |
| Columbia Heights High School | $14,264 |
| Roseville Area High School | $14,159 |
| St Cloud Area School District | $14,000 |
| St Paul Washington Tech Magnet | $13,906 |
| North High School | $13,637 |
| Robbinsdale Cooper High School | $13,393 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 82% of your 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.
56 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
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
- MSMINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +6%
- HAHIAWATHA ACADEMIES2× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +1%
- HCHmong College Prep Academy3× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- NSNEVIS SCHOOL DIST #308one grant, 2020 · $13k
- ECEAST CENTRAL MN EDUCATIONAL CABLE Cone grant, 2019 · $11k
- ISINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 2752one grant, 2024 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
6 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. 6 of the 112 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
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.
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.
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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 State High School League 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.
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.