· Private foundation
Rick and Helga Bauerly 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACTIVE CENTRAL MN | $40,000 |
| CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA INC | $5,000 |
| DISTRICT 742 LOCAL EDUCATION & ACTIVITIES FOUNDATI | $5,000 |
| ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE | $5,000 |
| PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITYGIVING | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITYGIVING | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA | $2,500 |
| COLLEGE OF ST BENEDICT BUSINESS OFF | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +8%
- GRGREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +93%
- PCPARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- WTWine to Watergraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +88%
- CFCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUDone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
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.
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To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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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…
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How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 65 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITYGIVING ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE CENTRAL MN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN ↗
- Who funds Orphanos Foundation ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds St Cloud Area Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE VINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds Elevate Pregnancy and Family Resource Center ↗
- Who funds QUIET OAKS ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 742 LOCAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Morgan Family Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Central Minnesota · Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc · The McKnight Foundation · Ja Wedum Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Central Minnesota Arts Board
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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