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Russell T Lund Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$132k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$343kPhilanthropy$315kFood & Nutrition$208kHousing & Shelter$100kHealth$92kPublic Safety & Disaster$89kArts & Culture$72kEducation$59kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION$50,000
OPEN ARMS$10,000
MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION$10,000
LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC$2,500
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC$2,500
PACER CENTER$2,500
PARTNERSHIP RESOURCES INC$2,000
APPETITE FOR CHANGE$1,500
THE LORING GREENWAY ASSOCIATION$1,500
THE COLE FOUNDATION$1,500
EDINA EDUCATION FUND$1,500
BURNSVILLE POLICE FIRE FOUNDATION$1,500
SOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE$1,500
OPEN HANDS FOUNDATIONHOPE HOUSE$1,500
GLEN LAKE ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORG$1,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $286k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ACTION MOBILITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $1k → 11%MICASA: $1k → 5%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $1k → 6%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 14%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $1k → 11%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $1k → 11%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $3k → 6%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $1k → 6%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $3k → 6%FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF: $1k → 6%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%SOLID GROUND: $1k → 14%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $3k → 6%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $3k → 6%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $1k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $1k → 11%OPEN ARMS: $10k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $3k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $2k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $1k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $1k → 11%OPEN HANDS MIDWAY: $1k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $1k → 11%BREAKING FREE: $1k → 14%NEWTRAX INC: $2k → 11%NORTH SUBURBAN EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE: $2k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 11%HUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $10k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $10k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $3k → 11%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $2k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $2k → 11%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $4k → 11%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $3k → 11%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $3k → 11%CORNERSTONE ADVOCACY SERVICE: $2k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS MINNESOTA REGION: $50k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS MINNESOTA REGION: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
MN
WI
IA
OH
PA
CA
VA
NM
NC
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$899k · 78 repeat orgs$464k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

78 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
145

Total granted

$899k
$437k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+8%

Still filing today

76%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • OA
    OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +309%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +46%
  • TC
    TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • J
    JDRF
    one grant, 2020 · $170k
  • GT
    GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -26%
  • VS
    VIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWNgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +172%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Family Pathways

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.

Human Services
2
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
3
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
4
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

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5
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
6
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
7
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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8
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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9
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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10
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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11
Second Harvest Northland

End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.

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12
Care in Action Minnesota

Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Lake Mills Music Boosters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyInstitutional Foundations &…Professional Industry Assoc…Disability Services & Youth…Affordable Housing Developm…Food Assistance & Emergency…Charter and Independent Sch…Senior Residential CareCompanion Animal RescueNeighborhood Revitalization…Youth Sports ProgramsService Club FoundationsPerforming Arts & Cultural …Somali & African Diaspora C…Youth & Family Support Serv…Senior Residential CareFamily Philanthropic Founda…Professional Association Ne…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr13%41%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/159
the rest of the field
14%
2,167/15,381

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 243 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/144
Grantees still filing
94/144
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JDRF — $170,000 · OtherJDRFTHE SALVATION ARMY — $75,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $50,000 · OtherTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY+137 more — $358,150 · Other+137 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $151,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI…OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $105,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTAAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $75,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & …LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC — $18,500 · Human Services+27 more — $82,500 · Human Services+27 moreTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $276,500 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATI…MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMIL…GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $25,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIES UNIT…+5 more — $11,500 · PhilanthropyTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $48,996 · Arts & CultureSIGMA CHI BUILDING FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $6,500 · Arts & CultureSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $40,000 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEAL — $2,500 · Food & NutritionJOYCE UPTOWN FOODSHELF — $2,000 · Food & NutritionPEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC — $2,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more — $4,500 · Food & NutritionOPERATION GRATITUDE INC — $40,000 · Public BenefitEVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC — $3,500 · Public Benefit+1 more — $1,000 · Public BenefitVIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWN — $15,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER — $6,000 · Crime & LegalCORNERHOUSE — $3,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$653,150Human Services$432,000Philanthropy$343,000Arts & Culture$60,496Food & Nutrition$51,000Public Benefit$44,500Crime & Legal$24,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $276,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $151,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $105,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $48,996 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEWORKS SERVICES INC — $18,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPACER CENTER INC — $17,350 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWN — $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetACTION MOBILITY FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetIRELAND'S HOPE — $10,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHUNGER RELATED EVENTS — $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetN C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC — $9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEDINA EDUCATION FUND — $7,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPartnership Resources Inc — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH — $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRICHFIELD FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER — $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMissions Inc Programs — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEDINA GIVE AND GO — $5,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCORNERSTONE — $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWE CAN RIDE INC — $5,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget360 Communities — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBridging Inc — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA CHI BUILDING FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRise Early Learning Center — $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAKOTA WOODLANDS — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS-N-KINSHIP INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBLINDNESS-LEARNING IN NEW DIMENSIONS INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE NEIGHBORHOOD NURSERY SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAN DO CANINES — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUFF START RESCUE INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Greater Twin Cities U…Pohlad Family Foundat…Xcel Energy FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The Graco FoundationHunger Solutions Minn…The Jamf Nation Globa…Edina Realty Foundati…
Otto Bremer TrustMN71× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Pohlad Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Russell T Lund Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    54report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 243 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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