How much does Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation give?

Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $534,463 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Food & Nutrition (43%), Philanthropy (7%).

Who are Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Feeding America ($1.1M), University of Minnesota Foundation ($1.0M), Second Harvest Heartland ($690k).

Does Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation based?

Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation is based in MN.

Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation

Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$534k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$155k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$2.5MFood & Nutrition$2.3MPhilanthropy$359kYouth Development$134kRecreation & Sports$33kHuman Services$26kCommunity Improvement$18kCrime & Legal$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $37k
$10k–50k3 grants · $82k
$50k–250k4 grants · $416k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FEEDING AMERICA	$155,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA	$105,622
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERISTY	$105,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION MCNAMARA ALUMNI CENTER	$50,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA	$32,445
BOLDER OPTIONS	$25,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA	$24,310
UNITED WAY OF SHELBY COUNTY	$8,261
CHILD ADVOCACY & PARENTING SERVICES	$5,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND	$3,386
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA	$3,028
THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION	$2,000
MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM	$2,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY	$2,000
THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION	$2,000

02The need

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 (FY19–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.0M · 28 repeat orgs$471k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.0M

$282k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+17%

Still filing today

68%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

Feeding America
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +77%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
5× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +111%
SH
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
7× · 2019–2025 · $690k · revenue +71%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - WILL PROGRAM
one grant, 2022 · $100k
AC
ADAIR COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER INC
one grant, 2020 · $42k · revenue -45% · 57% of their budget
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $35k

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.

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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Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition

Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition

Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition

Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy

The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition

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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Twin Cities United Way; the most unlike its peers is Adair County Resource Center Inc. 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

40 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. 40 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

22/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Food & Nutrition$1,858,464Other$1,800,456Education$1,483,958Philanthropy$304,428Human Services$32,855Health$7,000Community Improvement$3,580

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.

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationMN21.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Communitygiving · Grotto Foundation Inc · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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