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Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions.

$196M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,445
Grants FY2024still arriving
39
States reached
$80M
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 2024.

Health$172MArts & Culture$111MEducation$104MHuman Services$62MPhilanthropy$62MReligion$36MYouth Development$31MCommunity Improvement$29MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1445 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k267 grants · $1.8M
  • $10k–50k789 grants · $17M
  • $50k–250k324 grants · $31M
  • $250k+65 grants · $143M
$24,000
Median grant
39
States reached
$1.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION$80,010,000
GROUP HEALTH PLAN INC$10,355,970
ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,252,350
NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC$4,010,000
WASECA AREA FOUNDATION$2,860,202
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$2,709,809
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE$2,500,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$2,337,843
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$2,195,208
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$2,104,042
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$1,550,739
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR$1,447,436
MINISINAAKWAANG LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$1,300,000
ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY$1,010,625
AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION$918,360
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $42.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WARROAD COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $850k → 10%WARROAD COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $622k → 10%VALLEY OUTREACH: $830k → 6%DARTS: $743k → 6%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $268k → 14%MINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELES: $255k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $278k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $464k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL AND MPLS: $332k → 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $568k → 14%LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC: $417k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL AND MPLS: $265k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL AND MPLS: $242k → 11%METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $382k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF: $282k → 14%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $607k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $409k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $291k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $251k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL & MINNEAPOLIS: $575k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL & MINNEAPOLIS: $498k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCE: $322k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $956k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOT: $571k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL AND MPLS: $267k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $380k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $323k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $918k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $802k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $749k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $496k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $447k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $307k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $245k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $492k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $325k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $319k → 14%IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION: $281k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $593k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $576k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $536k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREA: $303k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREA: $283k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $245k → 14%THINK SMALL: $247k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$640M · 1486 repeat orgs$35M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

1486 repeat relationships: 1030 still active in FY2024, 456 since wound down; 130 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1486
307

Total granted

$640M
$27M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+7%

Still filing today

75%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MP
    MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +5%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +105%
  • SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • PO
    PARISH OF SAINTS JOACHIM AND ANNE OF SHAKOPEE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.7M
  • MH
    Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL LOON CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $750k · revenue -46% · 86% of their budget
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
Minnesota Business Partnership

To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.

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2
University of Minnesota Alumni

Connecting alumni, students, and friends in support of the university of minnesota and each other.

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3
Mental Health Minnesota

Mental Health Minnesota is the voice of lived mental health expenience. We carry that declaration forward as we work to advance mental health and well-being for all, increase access to mental health treatment and services, and provide…

Health
4
African Development Center

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

Human Services
5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and

Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper

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6
Minnesota Internship Center

To partner with communities and learners to achieve academic, career, and life success.

Education
7
Minnesota Medical Association

Be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state & the best place to practice

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8
Arts Midwest Incorporated

To build unprecedented opportunity across the Midwest by advancing creativity.

Arts & Culture
9
St Cloud Downtown Alliance Foundation

Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.

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10
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To promote the growth and development of the downtown area and its businesses.

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11
Partners for Affordable Housing

Provides shelter for homeless families & individuals, & helps them to secure long-term housing.

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12
Aia Minnesota

Advancing a vital profession, vibrant communities, and architecture that endures.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research; the most unlike its peers is The Museum of Russian Art. 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

1541 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1541 of the 2,000 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.

187
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
418
Early backer (in before they grew)
1501/1541
Grantees still filing
1050/1541
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION: $80,035,500 · HealthLAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATIONMAYO CLINIC: $16,340,431 · HealthMAYO CLINICGROUP HEALTH INC: $14,558,011 · HealthGROUP HEALTH INCHAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: $8,370,638 · HealthHAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINICALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,664,474 · Health+11 more: $20,443,724 · Health+11 moreRIVER PLACE: $23,025,167 · Arts & CultureRIVER PLACEMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $15,413,332 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC R…WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $7,742,291 · Arts & CultureWHITE BEAR CENTER …The Arts Partnership: $5,336,372 · Arts & CultureThe Arts Partnersh…SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $4,554,168 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF …The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $4,302,941 · Arts & CultureThe Saint Paul Cha…MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $4,005,350 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $16,179,070 · Arts & Culture+14 moreSALVATION ARMY: $4,127,924 · OtherNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $4,066,851 · OtherCOMO FRIENDS: $4,008,120 · Other+82 more: $105,099,244 · Other+82 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $13,614,119 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $13,494,005 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AM…MINISINAAKWAANG LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $5,659,829 · EducationMINISINAAKWAAN…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4,670,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVE…ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $4,663,899 · EducationST PAUL ACADEM…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $2,861,503 · EducationIRONWORLD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,217,562 · Education+18 more: $17,930,047 · Education+18 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $20,279,346 · PhilanthropyGREATER TW…PROPEL NONPROFITS: $2,926,651 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NON…MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $2,350,176 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $2,300,025 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,176,151 · PhilanthropyNEW ULM AREA FOUNDATION INC: $2,158,922 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $1,884,697 · PhilanthropyST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION: $1,663,340 · Philanthropy+11 more: $11,117,224 · Philanthropy+11 moreAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $7,516,139 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,014,054 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $2,833,848 · Human ServicesSHOLOM FOUNDATION: $2,158,893 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: $2,077,325 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $2,039,684 · Human ServicesWARROAD COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER: $1,472,457 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $1,425,184 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $1,339,605 · Human Services+18 more: $14,541,085 · Human ServicesWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $2,689,775 · EnvironmentLOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT: $2,264,225 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,164,129 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $774,160 · EnvironmentTHE NATIONAL LOON CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 · EnvironmentMISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $694,647 · EnvironmentGREAT RIVER PASSAGE CONSERVANCY: $664,015 · Environment
Health$145,412,778Arts & Culture$80,558,691Other$117,302,139Education$65,110,964Philanthropy$46,856,532Human Services$38,418,274Environment$9,000,951

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION: $80,035,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRIVER PLACE: $23,025,167 over 5y, 91% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $20,279,346 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $16,340,431 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $15,413,332 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetGROUP HEALTH INC: $14,558,011 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $13,614,119 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $13,494,005 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetHAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: $8,370,638 over 9y, 84% of budgetWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $7,742,291 over 8y, 40% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $7,516,139 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,664,474 over 7y, 14% of budgetMINISINAAKWAANG LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $5,659,829 over 6y, 77% of budgetThe Arts Partnership: $5,336,372 over 9y, 38% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4,670,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $4,663,899 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $4,554,168 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $4,302,941 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $4,066,851 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $4,044,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCOMO FRIENDS: $4,008,120 over 9y, 18% of budgetMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $4,005,350 over 9y, 48% of budgetWASECA AREA FOUNDATION: $3,819,658 over 5y, 61% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,725,397 over 9y, 25% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,531,674 over 6y, 15% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3,346,174 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $3,155,350 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,014,054 over 9y, 17% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS: $2,926,651 over 8y, 15% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $2,861,503 over 5y, 22% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $2,833,848 over 9y, 10% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $2,689,775 over 9y, 32% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $2,666,796 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,509,808 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2,352,517 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $2,350,176 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $2,300,025 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT: $2,264,225 over 9y, 38% of budgetIRONWORLD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,217,562 over 6y, 19% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $2,216,387 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $2,184,589 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,176,151 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ULM AREA FOUNDATION INC: $2,158,922 over 3y, 28% of budgetSHOLOM FOUNDATION: $2,158,893 over 9y, 32% of budgetCommunity of Recovering People: $2,134,250 over 6y, 18% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: $2,077,325 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,062,100 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetWARROAD MEMORIAL ARENA ASSOCIATION: $2,058,737 over 4y, 78% 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.

  • Who funds LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVER PLACE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds GROUP HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINISINAAKWAANG LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds The Arts Partnership ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds COMO FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds WASECA AREA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROPEL NONPROFITS ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Fr Bigelow FoundationMinnesota Community F…Mardag FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Hardenbergh FoundationTarget FoundationYouthpriseMortenson Family Foun…Headwaters Foundation…Women's Foundation of…The McKnight Foundati…Patrick and Aimee But…
Fr Bigelow FoundationMN247.6× affinity380 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fr Bigelow Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Hardenbergh Foundation · Target Foundation · Youthprise · Mortenson Family Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · The McKnight Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family

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 Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 2000 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $116M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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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