· Public charity
Northstar Education Finance Inc
To foster, aid, encourage and assist the pursuit of higher education by reducing the cost of higher education through the total higher education (the) loan program and additionally through a grants program.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $8,374,379 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $1,447,000 |
| ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES | $530,696 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $492,500 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $330,050 |
| ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WEWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS9× · 2017–2025 · $28M · revenue +72% · 84% of their budget
- CPCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8.0M · revenue +79%
- PEPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +69%
Funded once
- ATACHIEVE TWIN CITIESone grant, 2025 · $531k · revenue 0%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2025 · $500k · revenue 0% · 29% of their budget
- MSMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2025 · $250k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main · Otto Bremer Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Northstar Education Finance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northstar Education Finance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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