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Philanthrofund Foundation Inc

Pfund foundation builds equity with lgbtq+ communities across the upper midwest by providing grants and scholarships, developing leaders, and inspiring giving.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
55
Itemized grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.7M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$295,000
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$3.7M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$761kCommunity Improvement$751kHuman Services$113kCivil Rights$104kEducation$83kCrime & Legal$68kHousing & Shelter$36kArts & Culture$31kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Tree Inc$295,0001n/a
Fairview Health Services$238,0001n/a
Children's Health Care$237,0001n/a
Aliveness Project Inc$125,00020%
Lavender Legal Center$67,500230%
Family Connections Center Inc$55,00022%
Reclaim$51,00025%
Uniting Resilience$49,000213%
North Dakota Human Rights Coalition$48,0002n/a
Transformation Project Inc$35,50028%
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All grantees of Philanthrofund Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Tree Inc$295,0001n/a
Fairview Health Services$238,0001n/a
Children's Health Care$237,0001n/a
Aliveness Project Inc$125,00020%
Lavender Legal Center$67,500230%
Family Connections Center Inc$55,00022%
Reclaim$51,00025%
Uniting Resilience$49,000213%
North Dakota Human Rights Coalition$48,0002n/a
Transformation Project Inc$35,50028%
Iowa Safe Schools$32,50023%
Sitting Bull College$31,00020%
Outfront Minnesota Community Services$31,0001n/a
LGBT Center of SE Wisconsin$29,000213%
Clare Housing$26,00010%
Public Space One$25,00023%
Queerspace Collective$25,00021%
Pride Collective & Community Center$24,0002n/a
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of the Chippewa Valley$20,500212%
Trans Northland$20,000118%
Philadelphia Community Farm Inc$20,00025%
Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools Incorporated$20,00021%
Rural AIDS Action Network$20,0001n/a
Our Space$20,0001n/a
Families and Communities Together$16,00029%
St Mark's Lutheran Church$16,0002n/a
One Heartland$15,50012%
Advocates for Reproductive Education$14,00021%
Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual Transgender Pride-T$11,0001n/a
One Iowa Education Fund$10,0001n/a
Forge$10,0001n/a
Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota$10,00010%
The Link$10,0001n/a
Avenues for Youth$10,00010%
Longfellow Community Council$9,00013%
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis$6,00010%
Telling Queer History$6,00013%
Transforming Generations Tg$6,0001n/a
Rainbow Wellness Collective Inc$5,50019%
The Lost and Found Association$5,50010%
Gender Justice$5,50010%

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($290k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Philanthrofund Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAliveness Project Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLavender Legal Center: $67,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetFamily Connections Center Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetReclaim: $51,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUniting Resilience: $49,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTransformation Project Inc: $35,500 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetIowa Safe Schools: $32,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSitting Bull College: $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLGBT Center of SE Wisconsin: $29,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetClare Housing: $26,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPublic Space One: $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetQueerspace Collective: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of the Chippewa Valley: $20,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetTrans Northland: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPhiladelphia Community Farm Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetGay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools Incorporated: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFamilies and Communities Together: $16,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetOne Heartland: $15,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAdvocates for Reproductive Education: $14,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvenues for Youth: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLongfellow Community Council: $9,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTelling Queer History: $6,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetRainbow Wellness Collective Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetThe Lost and Found Association: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGender Justice: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Women's Foundation of…The Minneapolis Found…Hugh J Andersen Found…Headwaters Foundation…Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…The K FoundationMinnesota Fighting AI…The Bush FoundationYouthprise
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN30.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · Minnesota Fighting AIDS on Bikes · The Bush Foundation · Youthprise

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.

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About Philanthrofund Foundation Inc

How much does Philanthrofund Foundation Inc give?
Philanthrofund Foundation Inc reported 55 itemized grants totaling $1,693,500, out of $2,032,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Philanthrofund Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Community Improvement (37%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Philanthrofund Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Family Tree Inc ($295k), Fairview Health Services ($238k), Children's Health Care ($237k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Philanthrofund Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Women's Foundation of Minnesota, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Philanthrofund Foundation Inc based?
Philanthrofund Foundation Inc is based in MN.

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 59 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 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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