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Minnesota Vikings Foundation

The MINNESOTA VIKINGS FOUNDATION will advance the well-being of youth through engaging health and education initiatives.

$323k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$337kYouth Development$228kPhilanthropy$100kFood & Nutrition$46kHuman Services$37kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kArts & Culture$20kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $275,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $322,909 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $47,909 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $220k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISD #271 - BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$220,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$15,000
ATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES$10,000
SARTELL ISD #748$10,000
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT #270$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE LINK: $10k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $10k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $15k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Minnesota Vikings Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 86%.

Minnesota Vikings Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121k · 4 repeat orgs$682k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
25

Total granted

$121k
$442k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +3%
  • AC
    ATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS
    2× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +50%
  • UH
    UNITED HEROES LEAGUE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • HT
    HANDSON TWIN CITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $97k · revenue +31%
  • TT
    THE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue 0%
  • HI
    HY-VEE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Achieve Twin Cities

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…

Youth Development
2
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
3
Boys' Club of Duluth

Our mission: to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.our vision: provide a world-class club experience that assures success is within reach of…

Youth Development
4
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities

To enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. for more information visit www.boysandgirls.org.

Youth Development
5
Greater Twin Cities United Way

For 110 years, greater twin cities united way (united way), a nonprofit, has demonstrated that whenever there's a community need in the greater twin cities region, united way is there. united way's efforts continually evolve to respond to…

Philanthropy
6
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

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…

Community Improvement
7
Youthlink

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…

Human Services
8
Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul

YWCA St. Paul's mission is to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
9
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
10
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

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,…

Philanthropy
11
The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines

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,…

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12
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanneh Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISD #271 - BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $220,000 · OtherISD #271 - BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLSHANDSON TWIN CITIES: $96,786 · OtherHANDSON TWIN CITIESHY-VEE INC: $40,000 · OtherHY-VEE INCINFINITE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE: $25,259 · OtherTHE GREATEST GENERATIONS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherISD 282 - ST ANTHONY-NEW BRIGHTON: $19,900 · Other+15 more: $145,214 · Other+15 moreSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNES…THE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyTHE THIELEN FOUNDAT…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE LINK: $10,000 · Human ServicesDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $10,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $41,200 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsEDINA GIRLS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS: $25,000 · Education360 Communities: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$567,159Philanthropy$155,000Human Services$65,000Youth Development$51,200Recreation & Sports$30,000Education$25,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDSON TWIN CITIES: $96,786 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $41,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GREATEST GENERATIONS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LINK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALL SQUARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget360 Communities: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest: $8,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding Children Everywhere Inc: $6,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustPohlad Family Foundat…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Greater Twin Cities U…Pentair FoundationXcel Energy FoundationThe K FoundationThe Jamf Nation Globa…Margaret a Cargill Fo…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN25.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Minnesota Vikings Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota Vikings Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Minnesota Vikings Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Minnesota Vikings Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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