· Private foundation
Rukavina Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITITIES TWIN CITIES | $30,000 |
| NATOPIWO PARTNERS | $30,000 |
| MILKWEED EDITIONS | $20,000 |
| ST MARY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH | $20,000 |
| ABRIA PREGNANCY RESOURCES | $20,000 |
| OPERATION BOOTSTRAP - AFRICA | $20,000 |
| OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MN | $15,000 |
| ST MARY'S HEALTH CLINICS | $15,000 |
| TOGETHER FOR GOOD | $10,000 |
| PHILOMENA HOUSE MATERNITY HOME | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UPTON PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| BROTHERHOOD OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| THE RETREAT | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $223k) 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 6% of Rukavina Family 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.
36 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 9 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTOGETHER FOR GOOD5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +137%
- SMST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS3× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +9%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- HCHOSANNA CHURCH - LAKEVILLEone grant, 2022 · $27k
- SOSHEPHERDS OF HOPEone grant, 2023 · $22k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITITIES OF ST PAUL & MPLSone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 80 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 TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LIFE-CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS ↗
- Who funds DULUTH ROWING CLUB ↗
- Who funds PERSPECTIVES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WINONA-ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Sisters Rising Worldwide ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN OF WASECA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BOOTSTRAP-AFRICA ↗
- Who funds MILKWEED EDITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CARE CENTER ↗
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: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Winona Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Gostomski Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Communitygiving · United Way Worldwide · Elizabeth Callender King Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rukavina Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rukavina Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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