How much does Rose Francis Foundation give?

Rose Francis Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $241,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Rose Francis Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Arts & Culture (19%), Health (16%).

Who are Rose Francis Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Way to Grow ($660k), Walker Art Center ($349k), Ready Set Smile Pa ($311k).

Does Rose Francis Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rose Francis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Rose Francis Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation.

Where is Rose Francis Foundation based?

Rose Francis Foundation is based in MN.

Rose Francis Foundation

Rose Francis Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Rose Francis 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.

$241k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

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 2025.

Human Services$660kArts & Culture$486kHealth$407kYouth Development$403kFood & Nutrition$295kPhilanthropy$140kHousing & Shelter$95kCommunity Improvement$53kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $16k
$10k–50k8 grants · $125k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND	$50,000
WAY TO GROW	$50,000
READY SET SMILE	$35,000
CONSTELLATION FUND	$25,000
WALKER ARTS CENTER	$15,000
EMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT	$10,000
INSPIRE MSP	$10,000
BANYAN COMMUNITY	$10,000
ALLIANCE HOUSING	$10,000
HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT	$10,000
ACLU FOUNDATION INC	$5,000
PROJECT SUCCESS	$5,000
YOUTH LINK FOOD SHELF	$5,000
MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN	$1,000

02The need

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, $660k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.5M · 24 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+10%

Still filing today

88%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

WT
WAY TO GROW
9× · 2017–2025 · $660k · revenue +41%
WA
WALKER ART CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $349k · revenue +87%
RS
READY SET SMILE PA
9× · 2017–2025 · $311k · revenue +196%

Funded once

GT
GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -6%
LO
LEGACY OF DR JOSIE JOHNSON
one grant, 2020 · $10k
TA
THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -25%

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.

Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education

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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Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy

Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture

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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African Development Center

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

Human Services

Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education

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

Minneapolis Climate Action

Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…

Environment

Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

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Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…

Community Improvement

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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Aj Blain 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

31 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. 31 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/31

Grantees still filing

23/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$659,500Arts & Culture$438,629Health$312,166Food & Nutrition$277,570Youth Development$246,299Community Improvement$221,000Other$450,383

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.

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 FoundationMN35.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The McKnight Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Target Foundation · Smikis Foundation · Frey 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 Rose Francis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rose Francis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home