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Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation at a glance

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Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2022
90
Grants FY2022
16
States reached
$128k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

85% of Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Givinga Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 53 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

55
’20
62
’21
53
’22
51
’23
1
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1.3MArts & Culture$602kEnvironment$281kEducation$241kYouth Development$178kHuman Services$109kRecreation & Sports$80kOther$0
02FY2022 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k67 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $233k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $758k
$500
Median grant
16
States reached
$604k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREEKSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL$128,200
ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER$127,500
Individual grant recipient$123,750
THE FRIENDS OF THE FRIEDRICH CIVIC CENTER$100,000
SHELDON THEATRE$65,000
UNITED WAY - GWP$63,211
RED WING YOUTH OUTREACH$50,401
CREEKSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL$50,000
WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP$50,000
RED WING ARTS ASSOCIATION$36,100
HEALING PLAY INC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HOPE & HARBOR HOMELESS SHELTER$20,600
NATIONAL EAGLE CENTER$20,000
UNIVERSAL MUSIC CENTER$16,000
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 (FY20–23, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FACE TO FACE: $1k → 22%HAYWARD COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $150 → 15%KELLER FAMILY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $550 → 11%FACE TO FACE: $500 → 22%HAYWARD COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $125 → 15%CANNON VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 9%HAYWARD COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $100 → 15%CANNON VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 9%HAYWARD COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $100 → 15%CANNON VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 9%HAITIAN RELIEF SERVICES: $100 → 9%HAITIAN RELIEF SERVICES: $100 → 9%HAITIAN RELIEF SERVICES: $100 → 9%LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC: $150 → 14%THE GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $125 → 11%RED WING IGNITE: $33k → 9%RED WING IGNITE: $33k → 9%HOPE & HARBOR HOMELESS SHELTER: $21k → 9%HOPE & HARBOR HOMELESS SHELTER: $20k → 9%HOPE & HARBOR HOMELESS SHELTER: $11k → 9%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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NH
WA
ID
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
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AR
TN
DC
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 83 repeat orgs$561k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2022, 20 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
81

Total granted

$2.7M
$318k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+21%

Still filing today

60%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CM
    CREEKSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $179k · revenue +9%
  • RP
    RISEUP PARTNERSHIP
    3× · 2020–2022 · $146k · revenue +224%
  • RW
    RED WING IGNITE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $67k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES
    one grant, 2020 · $92k · revenue -18%
  • LS
    Lake Street Council
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -85%
  • ZS
    ZUMBROTA STATE THEATRE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -46%
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 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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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
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
4
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
5
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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6
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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7
Conservation Minnesota

Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.

Environment
8
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
9
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
10
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
11
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
12
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Prescott Foundation. 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

113 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. 113 of the 221 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/113
Grantees still filing
80/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC: $2,266,578 · PhilanthropyGIVINGA FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $3,200 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $885,475 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHELDON THEATRE: $323,200 · OtherSHELDON THEATREENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER: $255,100 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $174,559 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES: $91,700 · Other+144 more: $723,089 · Other+144 moreFRIENDS OF THE FRIEDRICH CIVIC CENTER: $100,000 · Arts & CultureRed Wing Arts Association: $63,500 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSAL MUSIC CENTER INC: $46,000 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY: $45,100 · Arts & CultureZUMBROTA STATE THEATRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGOODHUE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $11,300 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $11,470 · Arts & CultureCREEKSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $178,700 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ELLSWORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $17,300 · EducationANDERSON CENTER INC: $9,750 · Education+7 more: $7,000 · EducationRISEUP PARTNERSHIP: $146,151 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentRED WING IGNITE: $66,667 · Human ServicesHOPE & HARBOR: $51,700 · Human ServicesCANNON VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $5,000 · Human Services+8 more: $4,550 · Human ServicesEAGLEWATCH INC: $60,000 · AnimalsRED WING WILDLIFE LEAGUE: $2,600 · Animals+5 more: $1,475 · Animals
Philanthropy$2,269,778Other$2,453,123Arts & Culture$302,370Education$212,750Youth Development$148,151Human Services$127,917Animals$64,075

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 budgetGIVINGA FOUNDATION INC: $2,266,578 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCREEKSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $178,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRISEUP PARTNERSHIP: $146,151 over 3y, 19% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FRIEDRICH CIVIC CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES: $91,700 over 1y, 20% of budgetRED WING IGNITE: $66,667 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetRed Wing Arts Association: $63,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetEAGLEWATCH INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE & HARBOR: $51,700 over 3y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSAL MUSIC CENTER INC: $46,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetC A R E Clinic: $45,300 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY: $45,100 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetRED WING FAMILY YMCA: $28,325 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLake Street Council: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALING PLAY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetZUMBROTA STATE THEATRE: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLAKE PEPIN LEGACY ALLIANCE: $21,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ELLSWORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $17,300 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $17,108 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRED WING ARE SENIORS INC: $11,680 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGOODHUE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $11,300 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetRED WING DOWNTOWN MAIN STREET: $10,050 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetANDERSON CENTER INC: $9,750 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetELLSWORTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUN DATION INC: $8,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDMARKS INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANNON VALLEY SENIOR CENTER: $5,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $4,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRED WING AREA FOOD SHELF: $4,005 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,222 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVISIONS OF HOPE TRAINING PROGRAM: $3,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRED WING WILDLIFE LEAGUE: $2,600 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP KUDZU INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN RIVER PARTNERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE COALITION: $1,584 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI MINNESOTA: $1,485 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOTTERY MUSEUM RED WING INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SHELDON: $1,200 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJP4 Foundation: $1,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMankato Area Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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 GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CREEKSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds RISEUP PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FRIEDRICH CIVIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GOODHUEWABASHA & PIERCE COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds RED WING IGNITE ↗
  • Who funds Red Wing Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds EAGLEWATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE & HARBOR ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSAL MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds C A R E Clinic ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds RED WING FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
  • Who funds HEALING PLAY INC ↗
  • Who funds ZUMBROTA STATE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds LAKE PEPIN LEGACY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ELLSWORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds RED WING ARE SENIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODHUE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds RED WING DOWNTOWN MAIN STREET ↗

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Jones Family Foun…Givinga Foundation IncOtto Bremer TrustUnited Way of Goodhue…The Minneapolis Found…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Edina Realty Foundati…Mardag FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationAlbrecht-Poss Family …
Xcel Energy FoundationMN56.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Jones Family Foundation · Givinga Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Goodhuewabasha & Pierce Counties · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Albrecht-Poss Family 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 Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Venice Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
30report 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 Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Red Wing Shoe Company 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 221 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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