· Private foundation
Pohlad Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k254 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $548k
- $50k–250k87 grants · $9.8M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| CITY OF ST PAUL | $300,000 |
| CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER | $275,000 |
| THE ALLIANCE | $250,000 |
| MINNESOTA BLACK COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA | $250,000 |
| PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING | $250,000 |
| GREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND | $250,000 |
| FAMILY HOUSING FUND | $250,000 |
| PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE | $200,000 |
| NORTHPOINT HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER INC | $200,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA | $200,000 |
| AIN DAH YUNG CENTER | $200,000 |
| INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA | $200,000 |
| PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING | $200,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $13.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
362 repeat relationships — 164 still active in FY2024, 198 since wound down; 99 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NHNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +19%
- GMGREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +110%
- PFPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- AIAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $586k · revenue +5%
- DCDAKOTA COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES ADMINISTRATIONone grant, 2020 · $400k
- COCITY OF MINNEAPOLISone grant, 2021 · $350k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
End hunger together.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Engaging the community to end hunger
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is East Coast Rabbit Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
702 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 702 of the 944 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds Build Wealth MN Inc ↗
- Who funds Violence Free Minnesota ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC ↗
- Who funds REBOUND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSING FUND ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOVEFWD INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Women United of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds Healing Justice Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HOUSING JUSTICE CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Target Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The K Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Pohlad Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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