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Minnesota Vikings Foundation
The MINNESOTA VIKINGS FOUNDATION will advance the well-being of youth through engaging health and education initiatives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $275,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $322,909 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $47,909 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISD #271 - BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $220,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT #270 | $10,000 |
| ATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES | $10,000 |
| SARTELL ISD #748 | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Minnesota Vikings Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +3%
- ACATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS2× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +50%
- UHUNITED HEROES LEAGUE2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- HTHANDSON TWIN CITIESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $97k · revenue +31%
- TTTHE THIELEN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue 0%
- HIHY-VEE INCone grant, 2024 · $40k
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.
As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
The mission of twin cities public television, inc. (tpt) is to enrich lives and strengthen our community through the power of media.see schedule o for continuation.
To be a community in which all youth, without regard to their living situation, have an equal opportunity to pursue and achieve their goals and dreams. the agency does this by supporting, resourcing, and empowering young people on their…
Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.
YWCA St. Paul's mission is to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
The y's programs focus on improving people's spiritual, intellectual, and physical well-being to support people as they actualize their fullest potential. the ymca serves community members of all abilities, ages, cultural backgrounds,…
Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.
Our mission is to strengthen indigenous leadership and cultural identity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanneh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Edina Girls Athletic Association. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 33 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.
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANDSON TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds THE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEROES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE GREATEST GENERATIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 360 Communities ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDINA GIRLS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS ↗
- Who funds ALL SQUARE ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest ↗
- Who funds Feeding Children Everywhere Inc ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Pentair Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The K Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Margaret a Cargill 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 Vikings 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.
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