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Russell T Lund Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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$343kPhilanthropy$315kFood & Nutrition$208kHousing & Shelter$100kHealth$92kPublic Safety & Disaster$89kArts & Culture$72kEducation$59kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PACER CENTER$2,500
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC$2,500
PARTNERSHIP RESOURCES INC$2,000
STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION$1,500
MAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION$1,500
RISE EARLY LEARNING CENTER$1,500
CORNERSTONE$1,500
CHILDREN'S FIRST$1,500
MAPLE GROVE$1,500
APPETITE FOR CHANGE$1,500
WE CAN RIDE INC$1,500
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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Its 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 its 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%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $1k → 11%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 14%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%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $3k → 6%LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC: $3k → 6%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $1k → 11%SOLID GROUND: $1k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $1k → 11%OPEN ARMS: $10k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $3k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $2k → 11%OPEN HANDS MIDWAY: $1k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $1k → 11%BREAKING FREE: $1k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $1k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $1k → 11%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 INC: $10k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $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
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

MT
MN
WI
IA
OH
PA
CA
VA
NM
NC
GA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

+30%
+10%

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
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

  • 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 -21%
  • VS
    VIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWNgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +172%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners; 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.
04the grantee network

144 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. 144 of the 243 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)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/144
Grantees still filing
94/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+29 more: $84,500 · Human Services+29 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…+4 more: $10,500 · 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+2 more: $2,500 · 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 & LegalNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$653,150Human Services$434,000Philanthropy$342,000Arts & Culture$60,496Food & Nutrition$49,000Public Benefit$44,500Crime & Legal$25,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetRICHFIELD FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPartnership Resources Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMissions Inc Programs: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEDINA GIVE AND GO: $5,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWE CAN RIDE INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE: $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBridging Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget360 Communities: $5,000 over 2y, 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 budgetWashburn Center for Children: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAKOTA WOODLANDS: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE NEIGHBORHOOD NURSERY SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS-N-KINSHIP INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRASER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLINDNESS-LEARNING IN NEW DIMENSIONS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 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.

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.

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

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 Russell T Lund Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russell T Lund Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    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
    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 243 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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