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Pentair Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
346
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$2.3MEducation$1.9MPhilanthropy$922kInternational$877kScience & Tech$409kYouth Development$224kRecreation & Sports$181kArts & Culture$134kOther$0
02FY2024 · 346 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k336 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $775k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$100
Median grant
23
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVER PARTNERS$350,000
DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT$200,000
SAFE WATER NETWORK$175,000
AMERICAN FORESTS$150,000
USA SWIMMING FOUNDATION$100,000
V3 SPORTS INC$50,000
ISLA URBANA USA INC$50,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$50,000
GREAT RIVER GREENING$25,000
GREAT RIVER GREENING$11,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$4,000
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC$3,000
WASHINGTON LEE UNIVERSITY$2,500
PROJECT SCIENTIST$2,500
TUBMAN$2,000
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 (FY20–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WISHES MORE: $500 → 7%Brittanys Hope: $1k → 9%Pride Center West Texas: $250 → 16%SALT OUTREACH INC: $1k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $300 → 5%CROSSLINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $2k → 16%THE WOMENS CENTER INC: $1k → 5%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $1k → 16%TEARS FOUNDATION: $300 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $206 → 14%AGAPE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $500 → 11%THE WOMENS CENTER INC: $400 → 5%MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION: $200 → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $200 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $200 → 14%CASA PACIFICA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $2k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NORTHWEST INDIANA: $500 → 14%SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $206 → 11%SOJOURNER PROJECT INC: $250 → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NORTHWEST INDIANA: $250 → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $850 → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NORTHWEST INDIANA: $1k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NORTHWEST INDIANA: $500 → 7%WOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $250 → 8%WOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $250 → 8%THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $500 → 8%Milwaukee Womens Center: $3k → 17%MILWAUKEE DIAPER MISSION INC: $500 → 17%Milwaukee Womens Center: $2k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $1k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $200 → 17%MILWAUKEE DIAPER MISSION INC: $200 → 17%CATHEDRAL HILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $300 → 14%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $1k → 11%GOLDEN VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $240 → 17%PREPARE AND PROSPER: $500 → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $300 → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $200 → 11%World Food Programme: $500 → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $206 → 14%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $3k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $2k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $1k → 11%NORTH SUBURBAN EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE RESPONSE INC: $300 → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota Inc: $1k → 11%PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $600 → 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

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NY
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PA
NJ
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UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 212 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

212 repeat relationships: 94 still active in FY2024, 118 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

212
410

Total granted

$5.7M
$637k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+15%

Still filing today

84%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $917k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SW
    SAFE WATER NETWORK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +117%
  • SH
    SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $725k · revenue +89%
  • WM
    WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $625k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • FI
    For Inspiration and Recognition of
    one grant, 2020 · $104k
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM
    3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue -54%
  • TG
    Total grants paid in following year
    one grant, 2020 · $63k
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
4
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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5
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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10
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Periyar International Usa. 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

681 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. 681 of the 697 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
95
Early backer (in before they grew)
669/681
Grantees still filing
444/681
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAFE WATER NETWORK: $1,375,000 · EnvironmentSAFE WATER NETWORKRIVER PARTNERS: $350,000 · EnvironmentRIVER PARTNERSTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $200,000 · EnvironmentTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJE…American Forests: $150,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Forests+4 more: $54,567 · EnvironmentSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $725,000 · EducationSHINING HOPE FOR COMMU…Project Scientist Inc: $154,500 · EducationProject Scientist IncAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM: $100,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADE…Teach for America Inc: $75,000 · EducationPROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC: $60,000 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 · Education+33 more: $329,292 · Education+33 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $650,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIE…PRATHAM USA: $322,000 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USATHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $250,250 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FO…+8 more: $15,736 · PhilanthropyWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $624,976 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS…H2O FOR LIFE: $150,000 · InternationalH2O FOR LIFEOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $70,000 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY IN…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVE…+9 more: $41,977 · InternationalFor Inspiration and Recognition of: $104,000 · OtherFor Inspiration a…National Engineers Week Foundation: $70,000 · OtherNational Engineer…Total grants paid in following year: $62,961 · OtherTotal grants paid…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50,710 · OtherPROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $70,000 · OtherTWIN CITIES PUBLI…SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $42,700 · OtherGREAT RIVER GREENING: $96,000 · OtherGREAT RIVER GREEN…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $46,210 · Other+112 more: $490,339 · Other+112 moreFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $314,000 · Science & TechGREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY: $25,000 · Science & TechUSA Swimming Foundation Inc: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsV3 SPORTS INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsHOPKINS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUB: $9,938 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $6,651 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$2,129,567Education$1,493,792Philanthropy$1,238,486International$936,953Other$1,132,920Science & Tech$339,000Recreation & Sports$166,589

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAFE WATER NETWORK: $1,375,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $725,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $650,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $624,976 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRIVER PARTNERS: $350,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $322,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $314,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $250,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetProject Scientist Inc: $154,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetH2O FOR LIFE: $150,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetAmerican Forests: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM: $100,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUSA Swimming Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING: $96,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50,710 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetV3 SPORTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIsla Urbana Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $46,210 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $42,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSTARBASE MINNESOTA INC: $35,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEM FORWARD INC: $35,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA: $31,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNO COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $14,261 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROFUND FOUNDATION INC: $10,135 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE: $10,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetIMSA FUND FOR ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MOORPARK & SIMI VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWorld Savvy: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOPKINS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUB: $9,938 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetPERIYAR INTERNATIONAL USA: $7,800 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $7,791 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

Pohlad Family Foundat…The Jamf Nation Globa…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The K FoundationThe Graco FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustGreater Twin Cities U…
Pohlad Family FoundationMN76.8× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pohlad Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The K Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way

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 Pentair Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pentair Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
59report 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 697 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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