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Robert E and Edith M Grissinger Fd at a glance

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Robert E and Edith M Grissinger Fd

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$829k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$705kYouth Development$553kHuman Services$331kHousing & Shelter$151kCrime & Legal$130kEnvironment$106kHealth$80kArts & Culture$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $732k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$31,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$56,000
Black Men Teach$40,000
The Family Partneship$36,000
The Link$31,000
Ain Dah Yung Center$31,000
Community Partners With Youth$31,000
Project for Pride in Living$31,000
Liberty Community Church$31,000
Childrens Defense Fund$31,000
Rise Early Learning Center$31,000
MIGZI Communications$31,000
Cento Tyrone Guzman$31,000
Great River Greening$31,000
All Nations Rise$31,000
Oasis for Youth$31,000
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 (FY17–24, $557k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Black Men Teach: $40k → 11%Black Men Teach: $20k → 11%Black Men Teach: $5k → 11%The Link: $31k → 11%The Link: $25k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $31k → 11%Cento Tyrone Guzman: $31k → 11%Babys Space: $25k → 11%Ain Dah Yung Center: $31k → 14%Babys Space: $25k → 11%Babys Space: $20k → 11%Babys Space: $20k → 11%Ujamaa Place: $31k → 14%Phyllis Wheatley Community Center: $31k → 11%Phyllis Wheatley Community Center: $25k → 11%The Family Partneship: $36k → 11%Youthlink: $25k → 11%YouthLink: $25k → 11%YouthLink: $25k → 11%YouthLink: $20k → 11%YouthLink: $13k → 11%YouthLink: $13k → 11%Youth Link: $10k → 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 25 repeat orgs$597k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
3

Total granted

$1.7M
$49k

Still filing today

48%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $548k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsCrime & LegalAnimalsOther
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

  • NA
    NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +88%
  • Y
    YOUTHLINK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +4%
  • GR
    GREAT RIVER GREENING
    4× · 2021–2024 · $101k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • LC
    Liberty Community Church PCUSA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • MA
    Montessori Amer Indian Childcare
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • SP
    St Paul Friend of Youth
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
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
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
2
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
3
Minnesota Alliance With Youth

Through service, Minnesota Alliance With Youth develops leaders who foster young people's individual assets, honor their voices, and prepare them to reach their goals.

Youth Development
4
World Youth Connect

World Youth Connect builds communities across cultures and beyond borders. By creating and encouraging civic engagement opportunities we help young people gain the skills and experience they need to be successful. World Youth Connect…

Youth Development
5
Phumulani

Preventing domestic violence and sexual abuse in communities of color throughout minnesota and the nation. by providing culturally-specific resources to women and girls of african descent, we hope to change the cycle of gender-based abuse…

Social Science
6
Minnesota Chapter of the National Childrens Alliance

The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.

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
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
9
Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network

Child care aware of minnesota was incorporated in 1992 to provide technical assistance, training and coordination for the child care resource and referral programs throughout minnesota, to collect data regarding the supply of and demand…

Human Services
10
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
11
Maji Ya Chai Land Sanctuary

We provide a land-based place for people of all ages, especially those from black, indigenous & communities of color, to gather, rest, heal & build community for collective thriving.

Health
12
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery

The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Partnership; the most unlike its peers is Kwanzaa Community Church Pcusa Liberty Community Church Pcusa. 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

30 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. 30 of the 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
13/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOYCE PRESCHOOL: $87,500 · OtherJOYCE PRESCHOOLInterfaith Action Greater St Paul: $87,000 · OtherInterfaith Action Greater St PaulLittle Moments Count Fund: $85,000 · OtherLittle Moments Count FundIndividual grant recipient: $79,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATIONMontessori American Indian Childcar: $70,000 · OtherMontessori American Indian ChildcarProject Pride for Living: $70,000 · OtherProject Pride for LivingCommunity Partners for Youth: $65,000 · OtherCommunity Partners for YouthAfrican American Babies Coalition: $57,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $56,000 · OtherKA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $42,500 · Other+16 more: $257,500 · Other+16 moreYOUTHLINK: $130,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINKBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $90,000 · Human ServicesBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROWBlack Men Teach: $65,000 · Human ServicesBlack Men TeachPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $56,000 · Human ServicesPhyllis Wheatley Community C…THE LINK: $56,000 · Human ServicesTHE LINKThe Family Partnership: $36,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PartnershipCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $31,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO TYRONE GUZMANUJAMAA PLACE: $31,000 · Human ServicesUJAMAA PLACEAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $31,000 · Human ServicesAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENT…PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING …SAINT PAUL CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $65,000 · EducationSAINT PAU…MIGIZI Communications Inc: $56,000 · EducationMIGIZI Co…ALL NATIONS RISE INC: $31,000 · EducationALL NATIO…NORTHERN VOICES: $31,000 · EducationNORTHERN …+1 more: $5,000 · EducationNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $130,000 · Crime & LegalGREAT RIVER GREENING: $101,000 · AnimalsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $31,000 · Civil RightsBEFORE RACISM: $5,000 · Civil RightsCommunity Partners with Youth: $31,000 · Youth DevelopmentRAGAMALA DANCE: $14,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,187,000Human Services$557,000Education$188,000Crime & Legal$130,000Animals$101,000Civil Rights$36,000Youth Development$31,000Arts & Culture$19,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $130,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $130,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING: $101,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $90,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJOYCE PRESCHOOL: $87,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSAINT PAUL CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $65,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetBlack Men Teach: $65,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMIGIZI Communications Inc: $56,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $56,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LINK: $56,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION: $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $36,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $31,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $31,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALL NATIONS RISE INC: $31,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRise Early Learning Center: $31,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH: $31,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUJAMAA PLACE: $31,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $31,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Partners with Youth: $31,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetNORTHERN VOICES: $31,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $31,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAGAMALA DANCE: $14,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDream of Wild Health: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEFORE RACISM: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
  • Who funds BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds JOYCE PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PAUL CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
  • Who funds MIGIZI Communications Inc ↗
  • Who funds Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LINK ↗
  • Who funds KA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
  • Who funds ALL NATIONS RISE INC ↗
  • Who funds Kwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA ↗
  • Who funds Rise Early Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds OASIS FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds UJAMAA PLACE ↗
  • Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Community Partners with Youth ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN VOICES ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds RAGAMALA DANCE ↗

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…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustGreater Twin Cities U…Mortenson Family Foun…Fr Bigelow FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Linsmayer James B Fdn…The Sheltering Arms F…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Sauer Family Foun…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN40× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mortenson Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Robert E and Edith M Grissinger Fd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E and Edith M Grissinger Fd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Robert E and Edith M Grissinger Fd 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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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