· Private foundation
Squam Lake 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $150,000 |
| MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC | $37,000 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| INTERFAITH OUTREACH & COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $30,000 |
| THE BASILICA OF ST MARYST VINCENT DE PAUL MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $20,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION TWIN CITIES | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BANYAN COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC | $18,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $15,000 |
| TUBMAN | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC6× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +37%
- IOINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS9× · 2017–2025 · $159k · revenue +58%
- SASHARING AND CARING HANDS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $93k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- TBTHE BASILICA OF SAINT MARYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLISone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -12%
- SVSAINT VINCENT DE PAUL-TWIN CITIESone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
The mission of mental health resources is to foster hope, health and recovery for people affected by mental illness and substance use disorder.
Minnesota assistance council for veterans (macv) is dedicated to a mission to end veteran homelessness in minnesota. macv provides services to veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness throughout minnesota in areas of housing,…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
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.
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…
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.
See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…
Our mission is empowering people as they age.
Crime and communities violence interve
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Madeline Island Chamber Music co Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MINNESOTA SINFONIA ↗
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 · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Squam Lake Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Squam Lake Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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