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Nancy Somers Family Foundation at a glance

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Nancy Somers Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$367kFood & Nutrition$246kHealth$164kHuman Services$130kCrime & Legal$43kYouth Development$28kEducation$26kRecreation & Sports$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$540k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD PACIFIC SOUTHWEST$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $339k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $7k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $7k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $1k → 11%AVIVO: $20k → 11%AVIVO: $20k → 11%AVIVO: $15k → 11%AVIVO: $15k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 11%AVIVO: $15k → 11%AVIVO: $15k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $13k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $12k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $12k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $10k → 11%AVIVO: $10k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $10k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $10k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $10k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $10k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $8k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $8k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $8k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $5k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 20 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+30%

Still filing today

85%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEmploymentHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • A
    AVIVO
    7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +44%
  • COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +174%
  • OA
    OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • VI
    VEAP Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • BI
    Bridging Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +23%
  • NM
    NAMI MINNESOTAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +109%
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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
3
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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4
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
5
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc
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6
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
7
Minnesota Voice

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.

Public Benefit
8
Housinglink

Connecting people to affordable rental homes, increasing choice and access for all.

Housing & Shelter
9
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
10
Minnesota Housing Partnership

Minnesota housing partnership (mhp) expands housing and community development opportunity by leading collaborative work to promote systems change and grow develoopment capacity.

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11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans; the most unlike its peers is Creative Spirit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 26 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AVIVO: $110,000 · Human ServicesAVIVOOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $92,500 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTAPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $74,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INCGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $35,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERYYOUTHLINK: $27,500 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINKPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $135,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $95,000 · OtherCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIESIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $35,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INCIndividual grant recipient: $22,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $26,000 · OtherSUMMIT ACADEMY OICMinneapolis Parks Foundation: $24,000 · OtherMinneapolis Parks Foundation+5 more: $18,000 · OtherFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $87,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINN…NORTH COUNTRY FOOD ALLIANCE: $60,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH COUNTRY F…+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionTUBMAN: $55,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $31,000 · EmploymentTwin Cities Rise: $8,000 · Employment
Human Services$339,000Other$355,000Food & Nutrition$148,500Health$82,000Youth Development$55,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Employment$39,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAVIVO: $110,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $95,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $92,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $87,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $74,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY FOOD ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTUBMAN: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $31,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinneapolis Parks Foundation: $24,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVEAP Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridging Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI MINNESOTA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE SPIRIT: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds AVIVO ↗
  • Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY FOOD ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds TUBMAN ↗
  • Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds Minneapolis Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
  • Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bridging Inc ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE SPIRIT ↗

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.

The Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Pohlad Family Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Charlson FoundationOpus Foundation
The Richard M Schulze Family FoundationMN22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Charlson Foundation · Opus 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 Nancy Somers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy Somers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 26 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-PF 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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