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Rrw & Florence Berglund Family Foundation at a glance

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Rrw & Florence Berglund Family 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.

$692k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$385k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$3.9MRecreation & Sports$714kHealth$150kEducation$75kArts & Culture$73kPublic Benefit$30kHousing & Shelter$21k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $307k
  • $250k+1 grant · $385k
$245,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$385,000
TRUE FRIENDS$245,000
EVERY MEAL$61,500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TRUE FRIENDS: $250k → 5%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $350k → 7%MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $150k → 11%CONCORDIA COLLEGE - CONCORDIA LANGUAGE VILLAGES: $75k → 11%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $500k → 14%LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSEUM: $25k → 15%ST CROIX VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $19k → 5%THE SALVATION ARMY: $42k → 9%TRUE FRIENDS: $245k → 5%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $160k → 7%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $500k → 14%TRUE FRIENDS: $125k → 5%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $115k → 7%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $475k → 14%TRUE FRIENDS: $90k → 5%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $50k → 7%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $400k → 14%GUILD: $21k → 5%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $385k → 14%TRUE FRIENDS: $4k → 5%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $270k → 14%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $250k → 14%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $245k → 14%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $70k → 14%MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $48k → 14%CITY OF ST PAUL: $20k → 14%CITY OF ST PAUL: $10k → 14%EVERY MEAL: $62k → 14%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 4 repeat orgs$442k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$4.5M
$381k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+62%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +96%
  • TF
    TRUE FRIENDS
    5× · 2018–2025 · $714k · revenue -6%
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $675k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • MT
    Minnesota Teen Challenge Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +94%
  • CC
    CONCORDIA COLLEGE - CONCORDIA LANGUAGE VILLAGES
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • MH
    MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $48k · revenue +47%
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
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
2
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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3
Mill City Farmers Market Inc

Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…

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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 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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7
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

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

Philanthropy
8
Second Harvest Northland

End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.

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9
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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10
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
11
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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12
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lake Superior Railroad Musuem. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $3,095,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND+2 more: $80,850 · Food & NutritionTRUE FRIENDS: $714,005 · Recreation & SportsTRUE FRIENDSFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $675,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVIN…CONCORDIA COLLEGE - CONCORDIA LANGUAGE VILLAGES: $75,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $42,100 · OtherCITY OF SAINT PAUL: $30,000 · OtherGuild: $21,000 · OtherMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $150,000 · HealthMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $48,060 · Arts & CultureLAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEM: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Food & Nutrition$3,175,850Recreation & Sports$714,005International$675,000Other$168,100Health$150,000Arts & Culture$73,060

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $3,095,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $714,005 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $675,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $61,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $48,060 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEM: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGuild: $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST CROIX VALLEY FOODBANK INC: $19,350 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rrw & Florence Berglund Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rrw & Florence Berglund Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 12 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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