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Skanse Family 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.

$539k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.6MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$929kInternational$310kEmployment$295kArts & Culture$171kHousing & Shelter$161kReligion$112kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $271k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC - DIABETIC RESEARCH$125,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$100,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL$30,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$25,000
SALVATION ARMY$25,000
DAMASCUS WAY RE-ENTRY CENTER INC$20,000
SHARING AND CARING HANDS$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAS$20,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$20,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA$20,000
WORLD VISION$15,000
HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST$15,000
ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING-ARTS$15,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$15,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$11,000
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, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 12%CENTRAL FLORIDA DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $20k → 14%ALL SECURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MISSION PRE-BORN: $3k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 12%CENTRAL FLORIDA DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $20k → 14%MISSION PRE-BORN: $3k → 16%CENTRAL FLORIDA DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $11k → 14%MISSION PRE-BORN: $3k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%MISSION PRE-BORN: $3k → 16%CENTRAL FLORIDA DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $30k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $20k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $20k → 14%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $20k → 11%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $10k → 14%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $20k → 11%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $10k → 14%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $15k → 11%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $10k → 14%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $15k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $15k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $10k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $10k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE: $2k → 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

WA
MN
IL
NY
NV
IA
IN
CA
CO
MO
KY
NC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
$4.6M · 41 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
20

Total granted

$4.6M
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+39%

Still filing today

59%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • MA
    MINNEHAHA ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +50%
  • JP
    JEREMIAH PROGRAM
    8× · 2017–2025 · $327k · revenue +161%
  • AF
    AVENUES FOR YOUTH
    5× · 2017–2022 · $156k · revenue +220%

Funded once

  • HT
    HENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +39%
  • M
    MICROGRANTS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -36%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +98%
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
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
7
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

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

Philanthropy
8
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia

To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.

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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
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
11
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
12
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is All Secure Foundation 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, 2017–2026.

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. 40 of the 69 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
31/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC - DIABETIC RESEARCH: $1,225,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC - DIABETIC RESEARCHSALVATION ARMY: $116,000 · OtherHENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $115,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAS: $98,000 · OtherWORLD VISION INC: $85,000 · OtherORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $86,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $110,000 · Other+41 more: $592,250 · Other+41 moreMINNEHAHA ACADEMY: $1,032,500 · EducationMINNEHAHA ACADEMYHENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationHENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE…+1 more: $7,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $110,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesSHARING A…UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesUNION GOS…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $76,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED W…+4 more: $29,000 · Human Services+4 moreJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $326,500 · Housing & ShelterCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $70,000 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $28,250 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthMinnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc: $10,000 · HealthAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $156,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $40,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTwin Cities Rise: $195,000 · Employment
Other$2,427,250Education$1,139,500Human Services$425,000Housing & Shelter$326,500Health$238,250Youth Development$201,000Employment$195,000

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 budgetMINNEHAHA ACADEMY: $1,032,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $326,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $195,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $156,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $110,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAS: $98,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $86,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $76,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDAMASCUS WAY RE-ENTRY CENTER INC: $75,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $70,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $65,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $60,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $40,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $28,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMICROGRANTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL SECURE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMinnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Florida Down Syndrome Assoc Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget30-DAYS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD MISSIONS & EVANGELISM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVerus Community: $4,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCross International Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
  • Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
  • Who funds HENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAS ↗
  • Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds DAMASCUS WAY RE-ENTRY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
  • Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
  • Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
  • Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL SECURE FOUNDATION 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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Pohlad Family Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Thrivent Charitable I…Xcel Energy FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…American Gift FundMargaret a Cargill Fo…Catholic Community Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Minneapolis FoundationMN24× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · American Gift Fund · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · 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 Skanse Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skanse Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report 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 69 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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