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St Croix Valley Foundation
The mission of the st.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of St Croix Valley Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 100 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year St Croix Valley Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 90 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $237k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $811k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOLID GROUND | $250,000 |
| ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $165,063 |
| LAKEVIEW MEMORIAL HOSPICE PROGRAM | $157,063 |
| LAKE WAPOGASSET LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP INC | $100,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA | $100,000 |
| ST CROIX COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $96,109 |
| WILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY OF THE ST CROIX AND NAMEKAGON | $89,447 |
| YMCA HUDSON | $64,165 |
| THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA SCHOOLS | $63,405 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ST CROIX VALLEY | $51,800 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTH CENTRAL STATES | $51,000 |
| TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
| COR RETREAT INC | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $45,950 |
| LAKEVIEW HOSPITAL | $45,000 |
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, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
137 repeat relationships: 79 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WRWILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY OF THE ST CROIX & NAMEKAGON9× · 2017–2025 · $854k · revenue +93%
- AHAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $854k · revenue +40%
- UOUniversity of St Thomas2× · 2020–2021 · $620k · revenue +34%
Funded once
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +37%- FOFRIENDS OF PERCH LAKE INCone grant, 2022 · $108k
- FOFRIENDS OF KMMA-CAITHSone grant, 2023 · $105k · revenue -61% · 56% of their budget
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.
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…
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
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.
Minnesota community care's mission is strengthening the well-being of our community through health care for all.
Engaging the community to end hunger
Providing direct and indirect services in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilites, and substance use to residents of aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.
To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.
We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…
Make mental health healthier through treatment, training, education, and information.
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
How this is measured
198 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. 198 of the 276 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY OF THE ST CROIX & NAMEKAGON ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUDSON HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ST CROIX AND RED CEDAR VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds COR RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY-EAST ↗
- Who funds CANVAS HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAYING PELICAN MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS E & EDNA D CARPENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ST CROIX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE LOAVES FOOD & CLOTHING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community of Recovering People ↗
- Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KMMA-CAITHS ↗
- Who funds Valley Outreach ↗
- Who funds ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION ↗
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: Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Hardenbergh Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · United Way St Croix and Red Cedar Valleys Inc · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hrk Foundation · Mardag Foundation · United Way of Washington County-East
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization St Croix Valley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Croix Valley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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