· Community foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k267 grants · $1.8M
- $10k–50k789 grants · $17M
- $50k–250k324 grants · $31M
- $250k+65 grants · $143M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +5%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +105%
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +37%
Funded once
- POPARISH OF SAINTS JOACHIM AND ANNE OF SHAKOPEEone grant, 2021 · $1.7M
- MHMinnesota Housing Finance Agencyone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- TNTHE NATIONAL LOON CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue -46% · 86% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.
Connecting alumni, students, and friends in support of the university of minnesota and each other.
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…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper
To partner with communities and learners to achieve academic, career, and life success.
Be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state & the best place to practice
To build unprecedented opportunity across the Midwest by advancing creativity.
Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.
To promote the growth and development of the downtown area and its businesses.
Provides shelter for homeless families & individuals, & helps them to secure long-term housing.
Advancing a vital profession, vibrant communities, and architecture that endures.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1540 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. 1540 of the 2,000 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
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 Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation 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.
- 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
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.