· Private foundation
Sieff Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $15,000 |
| SHARING & CARING | $8,508 |
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,500 |
| GRACE PLACE | $5,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $1,875 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +235%
- CCCORNELL COLLEGE5× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +39%
- MHMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2023 · $9k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- NUNAPLES UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2022 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $800
- PPPASTOR PAULS MISSIONone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
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.
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
The m inspires understandings of identities, experiences, and complex truths through american art.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
Children's Theatre Company exists to create extraordinary theater experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire young people and their communities.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
To support charitable, plant-based scientific, and educational activities exclusively for the benefit of the minnesota landscape arboretum of the university of minnesota
To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
Schubert club creates inspiring musical experiences that contribute to the cultural vibrancy of the twin cities community through concert presentations, music education and student scholarship programs, and musuem exhibits.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF CHARITY ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds BALLET WORKS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sieff Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sieff Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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