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Philotimo Foundation at a glance

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Philotimo 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.

$779k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$1.5MEnvironment$829kHuman Services$678kReligion$371kScience & Tech$150kEducation$125kRecreation & Sports$55kCivil Rights$22k
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $269k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $470k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$47k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMON HOPE$140,000
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE$140,000
URBAN REFUGE CHURCH$70,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$60,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$60,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$40,000
ANSELM HOUSE$35,000
HOPE ACADEMY$30,000
CAMPUS CRUSADE$29,000
INNOVATION FOR POVERTY ACTION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES$20,000
IAFR INT ASSOCIATION FOR REFUGEES$15,775
TRAINING LEADERS INTERNATIONAL$14,000
GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE$10,000
SOURCE MINISTRIES$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $580k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $140k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $140k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $70k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $70k → 17%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $25k → 14%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $30k → 17%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $25k → 14%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $30k → 17%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 14%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $30k → 17%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 14%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 26 repeat orgs$387k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
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Total granted

$2.9M
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+98%

Still filing today

77%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentReligionSocial ScienceOther
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

  • HI
    HARVESTING IN SPANISH
    5× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +46%
  • EC
    EVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS
    4× · 2019–2023 · $230k · revenue +48%
  • IF
    INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +98%
  • EC
    EVERGREEN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • EA
    EVIDENCE ACTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +64%
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
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
2
Global Minnesota

Global minnesotas mission is to advance international understanding and engagement. we are committed to serving minnesota from a foundation built on the values of respect, collaboration, nonpartisanship, global competency, inclusion and…

International
3
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
4
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
5
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
6
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
7
MN350

Mn350 unites minnesotans with the global movement to end the pollution damaging our climate, speed the transition to clean energy, and create a just and healthy future for all.

Environment
8
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
9
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
10
Natural Resource Governance Institute

Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…

International
11
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
12
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Harlem Children's Zone Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 39 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMON HOPE: $510,000 · InternationalCOMMON HOPEHARVESTING IN SPANISH: $300,000 · InternationalHARVESTING IN SPANISHALIGHT: $180,000 · InternationalALIGHTInternational Rescue Committee INC: $155,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC+1 more: $40,000 · InternationalTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $520,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES: $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMEN…Anselm House: $80,000 · OtherAnselm HouseURBAN REFUGE CHURCH: $70,000 · OtherURBAN REFUGE CHURCHEVERGREEN CHURCH: $70,000 · OtherEVERGREEN CHURCH+14 more: $218,115 · Other+14 moreHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $510,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S Z…GIVEDIRECTLY INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INCTOGETHER FOR GOOD: $50,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER FOR GOOD+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS: $230,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA OFF ROAD CYCLISTS-MORC: $35,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: $10,000 · EnvironmentINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $215,000 · Social ScienceAgamim Classical Academy: $60,000 · EducationLITERACY MINNESOTA: $35,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INC: $30,000 · EducationCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $9,000 · EducationBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $52,000 · ReligionTraining Leaders International: $40,000 · Religion
International$1,285,000Other$1,108,115Human Services$655,000Environment$275,000Social Science$215,000Education$134,000Religion$92,000

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $520,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON HOPE: $510,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $510,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHARVESTING IN SPANISH: $300,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS: $230,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $215,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALIGHT: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $155,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnselm House: $80,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAgamim Classical Academy: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $52,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER FOR GOOD: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTraining Leaders International: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA OFF ROAD CYCLISTS-MORC: $35,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetLITERACY MINNESOTA: $35,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCARE OF CREATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARRIVE MINISTRIES: $23,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHREE RIVERS PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition to Stop Gun Violence: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% 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 NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTING IN SPANISH ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Anselm House ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds Agamim Classical Academy ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds Training Leaders International ↗
  • Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA OFF ROAD CYCLISTS-MORC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds CARE OF CREATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds ARRIVE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THREE RIVERS PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
  • Who funds GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Coalition to Stop Gun Violence ↗

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…Mightycause Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…The Graco FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Margaret a Cargill Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Marbrook FoundationMortenson Family Foun…Pohlad Family Foundat…Xcel Energy Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN23.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Graco Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Marbrook Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Philotimo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philotimo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%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
    5report 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 Philotimo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Philotimo 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 39 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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