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Otto Bremer Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57M
Granted FY2025still arriving
180
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$4.2M
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$87MHuman Services$86MCommunity Improvement$47MPhilanthropy$40MHousing & Shelter$35MEducation$34MYouth Development$34MFood & Nutrition$28MOther$0
02FY2025 · 180 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $207k
  • $50k–250k103 grants · $13M
  • $250k+65 grants · $44M
$150,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$4,200,000
INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$3,150,000
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC$3,150,000
UNITED WAY OF WISCONSIN$2,100,000
MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$1,575,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION$1,575,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$1,300,000
ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,250,000
NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,050,000
MONTANA CHILDREN'S HOME & HOSPITAL DBA SHODAIR CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$1,000,000
MAYO CLINIC$1,000,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA$1,000,000
FROEDTERT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL$750,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC DBA GOODWILL-EASTER SEALS MINNESOTA$750,000
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 (FY19–25, $38.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $150k → 5%NEW PATHWAYS INC: $300k → 7%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $225k → 15%GREEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $200k → 7%GOLDEN HOUSE INC: $200k → 10%CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $200k → 11%PROJECT BEE: $250k → 10%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $150k → 5%FAMILYMEANS: $200k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $250k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $270k → 17%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $150k → 5%EVOLVE ADOPTION & FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $250k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTHERN SKY: $250k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $150k → 11%COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $250k → 9%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC: $185k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $150k → 11%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC: $185k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $150k → 11%WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC: $150k → 14%COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $200k → 9%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC: $175k → 13%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC: $150k → 13%LAKES & PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $150k → 11%LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC: $300k → 14%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $225k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $500k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $157k → 17%CENTRO HISPANO: $250k → 10%AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $500k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAINT PAUL: $175k → 14%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $250k → 11%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $880k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $1.0M → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $1.0M → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $250k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $250k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $250k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $250k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $200k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $750k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $500k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $200k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $750k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $200k → 14%APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $300k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
SD
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Otto Bremer Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Otto Bremer Trustlessmore 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$355M · 1307 repeat orgs$53M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

1307 repeat relationships: 119 still active in FY2025, 1188 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1307
636

Total granted

$355M
$43M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+4%

Still filing today

90%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $11M · revenue +111%
  • AH
    ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +26%
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
    6× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • IS
    IMPACT SEVEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue +26%
  • UH
    UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -92%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +19%
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
Community Resource Connections Inc

Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.

Community Improvement
3
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
4
Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc

Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.

Community Improvement
5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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6
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services
7
South Metro Human Services

Radias health is a non-profit mental health & substance use disorders services organization customizing community based services through the integration of knowledge, compassion, and collaboration. we are committed to being an inclusive,…

Human Services
8
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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9
Able Inc

A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…

Human Services
10
Residential Services of Northeastern Minnesota Inc

Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.

Human Services
11
Community Neighborhood Housing Services

Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…

Housing & Shelter
12
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is East African Healing Services. 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

1684 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1684 of the 2,000 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.

67
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
453
Early backer (in before they grew)
1655/1684
Grantees still filing
1177/1684
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS: $2,930,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $2,675,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $2,350,000 · Other+89 more: $61,823,238 · Other+89 moreMAYO CLINIC: $8,000,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,750,000 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL …ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,350,000 · HealthALLINA HEALTH FOU…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,550,000 · HealthSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $1,440,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $1,355,000 · HealthCommunity of Recovering People: $1,262,500 · HealthHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,165,000 · Health+15 more: $10,492,518 · Health+15 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $8,290,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITI…GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $6,790,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MILWAUKEE…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC: $4,865,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDAT…MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,135,000 · PhilanthropyMONTANA COMMUNITY…NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,913,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH DAKOTA COMM…UNITED WAY OF WISCONSIN INC: $2,100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WIS…PROPEL NONPROFITS: $1,458,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $4,187,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $3,095,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIA…NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $1,892,240 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD D…UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $1,505,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $1,200,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,158,265 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $1,140,000 · Human Services+33 more: $18,773,234 · Human Services+33 moreINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $8,745,000 · Community ImprovementINITIATIVE F…COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $3,050,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY RE…MONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $2,250,000 · Community ImprovementMONTANA COMM…IMPACT SEVEN INC: $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementIMPACT SEVEN…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1,825,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD…NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $905,000 · Community Improvement+9 more: $4,972,000 · Community Improvement+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,975,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $1,750,000 · EducationWALLIN ED…ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1,200,000 · EducationST MARYS …COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $1,175,000 · EducationCOLLEGE P…SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $1,000,300 · EducationAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS: $970,000 · EducationLITERACY MINNESOTA: $800,000 · EducationGROVES ACADEMY: $725,000 · Education+1 more: $470,000 · EducationEVERY MEAL: $1,919,000 · Food & NutritionMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $1,305,000 · Food & NutritionGreat Plains Food Bank: $1,142,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $1,135,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $905,000 · Food & NutritionCHANNEL ONE INC: $870,000 · Food & NutritionST CROIX VALLEY FOODBANK INC: $735,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $730,000 · Food & NutritionMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $670,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$69,778,238Health$34,365,018Philanthropy$33,738,000Human Services$28,763,739Community Improvement$23,747,000Education$19,065,300Food & Nutrition$9,411,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,975,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $8,745,000 over 7y, 32% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $8,290,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $8,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $6,790,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC: $4,865,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,750,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,350,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,135,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $3,095,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $3,050,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,913,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $2,350,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $2,250,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetIMPACT SEVEN INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $1,919,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $1,892,240 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1,825,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $1,750,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,550,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $1,505,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS: $1,458,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $1,440,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER: $1,372,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $1,355,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetGoodwill Industries Inc: $1,340,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $1,340,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $1,305,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity of Recovering People: $1,262,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetNORTHEAST ENTREPRENEUR FUND INC: $1,250,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetPACER CENTER INC: $1,225,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $1,200,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1,200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $1,175,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $1,175,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,165,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetAFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,158,265 over 5y, 11% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $1,142,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $1,140,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $1,135,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA INDEPENDENCE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY: $1,100,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetTUBMAN: $1,080,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC: $1,040,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $1,025,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $1,000,300 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT SEVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
  • Who funds PROPEL NONPROFITS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE ↗
  • Who funds Goodwill Industries Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Community of Recovering People ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ENTREPRENEUR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH 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.

Greater Twin Cities U…Mardag FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationMedica FoundationTarget FoundationFred C and Katherine …Edina Realty Foundati…Andersen Corporate Fo…Hardenbergh FoundationAllina Health SystemHugh J Andersen Found…The Sauer Family Foun…
Greater Twin Cities United WayMN188.8× affinity193 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mardag Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Medica Foundation · Target Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Allina Health System · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · The Sauer Family 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 Otto Bremer Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Otto Bremer Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%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
    1get no government money at all
    77report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Otto Bremer Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Otto Bremer Trust 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 2000 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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