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Pgn 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.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$17k
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.

Education$143kHealth$111kPhilanthropy$75kAnimals$37kHuman Services$36kReligion$18kRecreation & Sports$17kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL SKI PATROL SYSTEM$17,300
SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$7,000
WESTERN BEAR FOUNDATION$5,000
MONTANA ON A MISSION$5,000
GRG RANCH HORSE RESCUE AND SANCTUARY$4,800
CHANGING GAITS INC$4,300
HOLY CROSS LMNV CATHOLIC SCHOOL$4,000
HEARTS 4 HENRY$3,100
TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE$3,000
PIONEER MEDICAL CENTER$2,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO$2,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE TWIN CITIES$2,000
MAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION$1,600
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH$1,600
YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH FOUNDATION INC$1,400
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 (FY19–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA FUND: $600 → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA FUND: $600 → 14%MONTANA ON A MISSION: $5k → 10%MONTANA ON A MISSION: $4k → 10%MONTANA ON A MISSION: $4k → 10%MONTANA ON A MISSION: $4k → 10%MONTANA ON A MISSION: $4k → 10%MONTANA ON A MISSION: $4k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $2k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $2k → 11%MONTANA ON A MISSION: $800 → 10%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

MT
MN
IL
NY
WY
IA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$409k · 42 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
6

Total granted

$409k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+90%

Still filing today

76%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalReligionOther
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

  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +36%
  • POMONA COLLEGE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +125%
  • CG
    CHANGING GAITS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • AB
    AMERICAN BEAR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +40%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +90%
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 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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2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
4
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
5
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
6
Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
7
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
8
Advantage Healthsaint Mary's Medical Group

We, advantage health/saint mary's medical group and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.advantage health/saint mary's medical group…

Health
9
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
10
Glencoe Regional Health Services

Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…

Health
11
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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12
Methodist Fremont Health

The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hearts 4 Henry. 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

40 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. 40 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN BEAR FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherWESTERN BEAR FOUNDATIONHOLY CROSS LMNV CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $28,600 · OtherHOLY CROSS LMNV CATHOLIC SCHOOLNATIONAL SKI PATROL SYSTEM: $17,300 · OtherNATIONAL SKI PATROL SYSTEMGRG RANCH HORSE RESCUE & SANCTUARY: $16,300 · OtherGRG RANCH HORSE RESCUE & SANCTUARYJAMESON HOUSE: $14,800 · OtherJAMESON HOUSEFARMHOUSE FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherFARMHOUSE FOUNDATIONST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $6,500 · OtherHEARTS 4 HENRY: $9,600 · OtherTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $6,750 · Other+18 more: $42,725 · Other+18 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE: $55,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNEL…POMONA COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,600 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA…+1 more: $3,200 · EducationCHANGING GAITS INC: $20,300 · HealthCHANGING GAITS INCPIONEER MEDICAL CENTER: $15,400 · HealthPIONEER MEDICAL CENT…Children's Hospital Colorado: $13,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital …MAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION: $7,200 · HealthMAJESTIC HILLS RANCH…Intermountain Planned Parenthood: $6,000 · HealthIntermountain Planne…MAYO CLINIC: $5,600 · HealthMAYO CLINICHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,250 · HealthHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUN…REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,250 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL FOU…FAITH RECOVERY & MUSIC: $4,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA: $3,250 · Health+2 more: $5,200 · Health+2 moreSWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,900 · Community ImprovementSWEET GRA…Montana On A Mission: $25,600 · Human ServicesYELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT: $8,800 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $3,200 · Human Services+1 more: $1,200 · Human ServicesZooMontana Inc: $8,800 · AnimalsLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $7,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN BEAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · AnimalsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $12,000 · Youth Development
Other$183,575Education$103,800Health$90,450Community Improvement$40,900Human Services$38,800Animals$20,800Youth Development$12,000

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,900 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMontana On A Mission: $25,600 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetCHANGING GAITS INC: $20,300 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPIONEER MEDICAL CENTER: $15,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFARMHOUSE FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS 4 HENRY: $9,600 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetYELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT: $8,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetZooMontana Inc: $8,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION: $7,200 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $6,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $5,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR THE CHILD INCORPORATED: $5,250 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN BEAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFAITH RECOVERY & MUSIC: $4,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA: $3,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $3,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA METH PROJECT: $2,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction Inc: $2,175 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCana Family Institute: $2,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION: $2,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Alano Society of Minneapolis Inc: $1,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMount Olivet Lutheran Church Foundation: $1,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET GRASS ARTISTS ALLIANCE INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Advocates of Montana: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Montana On A Mission ↗
  • Who funds CHANGING GAITS INC ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds FARMHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS 4 HENRY ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT ↗
  • Who funds ZooMontana Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Intermountain Planned Parenthood ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR THE CHILD INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BEAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAITH RECOVERY & MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA METH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Saint Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cana Family Institute ↗

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.

Montana Community Fou…Otto Bremer TrustFirst Interstate Banc…Donald & Carol Robert…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Mightycause Charitabl…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
Montana Community Foundation IncMT17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Pgn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pgn 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 →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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

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How do I get to Pgn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pgn 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 52 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home