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Riverway Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$237k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$348kHousing & Shelter$247kHuman Services$176kHealth$160kPublic Safety & Disaster$140kYouth Development$81kCommunity Improvement$65kRecreation & Sports$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $138k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE ACADEMY$39,850
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
V3 SPORTS$25,000
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY$10,000
TREE HOUSE$7,500
DUNWOODY$7,500
CRISTO REY$7,500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$6,000
TASTE FORE THE TOUR$5,000
URBAN VENTURES$5,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$5,000
PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION$5,000
LIVING LANDS & WATERS$5,000
YMCA OF THE NORTH$5,000
URBAN HOMEWORKS$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DWELLING PLACE: $3k → 7%DWELLING PLACE: $3k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $70k → 14%THE DWELLING PLACE: $2k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%THE DWELLING PLACE: $2k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%DWELLING PLACE: $2k → 7%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $3k → 11%ELIPIS ENTERPRISES: $2k → 14%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $3k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $2k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%ELIPIS ENTERPRISES: $2k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $2k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $2k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $2k → 14%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $5k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $5k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $3k → 14%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER TWIN CITIES: $15k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $5k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $5k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER TWIN CITIES: $5k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER TWIN CITIES: $5k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $5k → 11%HUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $5k → 11%HUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $2k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $3k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%FRASER: $3k → 11%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 68 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
46

Total granted

$1.3M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+15%

Still filing today

71%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HA
    HOPE ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +240%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +22%
  • UV
    URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • UH
    Urban Homeworks
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HA
    Hope Academy
    one grant, 2021 · $36k
  • CR
    Cristo Rey Jesuit High School
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
2
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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3
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
4
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
5
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
6
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
7
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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8
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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9
Childs Place

The mission of Childs Place is to listen to children in a safe developmentally sensitive and legally sound manner; to unite professionals in a coordinated response to child abuse; to guide children and families toward healing through…

Human Services
10
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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11
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
12
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Breannas Gift. 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

64 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. 64 of the 118 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
47/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONUrban Homeworks: $50,000 · OtherUrban HomeworksHope Academy: $36,000 · OtherHope AcademyAMERICAN RED CROSS: $30,000 · OtherCRISTO REY: $23,000 · OtherDUNWOODY: $22,500 · Other+75 more: $383,800 · Other+75 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $110,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN …GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $32,500 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS C…PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Human ServicesPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATIO…FRASER: $16,000 · Human ServicesFRASERThe Dwelling Place: $12,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $10,000 · Human Services+9 more: $43,500 · Human Services+9 moreHOPE ACADEMY INC: $200,350 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INCPEACEMAKER MINNESOTA: $9,500 · Education+2 more: $6,000 · EducationHOUSING IN ACTION INC: $170,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING IN ACT…PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $13,500 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE SERVING…+1 more: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterTREEHOUSE INC: $31,500 · HealthWashburn Center for Children: $17,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $9,500 · HealthANGEL FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthCaringBridge: $6,000 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $3,000 · HealthTUBMAN: $3,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthV3 SPORTS INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsTRUE FRIENDS: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsONE HEARTLAND: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $45,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · Environment
Other$610,300Human Services$281,500Education$215,850Housing & Shelter$185,500Health$79,500Recreation & Sports$53,000Environment$46,000

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 budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $200,350 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSING IN ACTION INC: $170,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetV3 SPORTS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $32,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC: $31,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBridging Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRASER: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dwelling Place: $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMICROGRANTS: $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEMAKER MINNESOTA: $9,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetElpis Enterprises: $7,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIFETRACK RESOURCES INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBreannas Gift: $5,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSojourner Project Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAKKEN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGoodwill Industries Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lift Garage: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA DARE INC: $3,600 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds V3 SPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Bridging Inc ↗
  • Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
  • Who funds FRASER ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
  • Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
  • Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
  • Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Elpis Enterprises ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Hubbard Broadcast…The Walser FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Pohlad Family Foundat…Catholic Community Fo…Greater Twin Cities U…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Sauer Family Foun…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN57× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Sauer 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 Riverway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Riverway Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    17report 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 Riverway Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Riverway 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 118 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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