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Taft Stettinius & Hollister Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$66k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2021.

Crime & Legal$74kEducation$55kArts & Culture$21kHuman Services$11kHealth$3kInternational$1kOther$101k
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$58,905
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION OF THE FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION$58,905
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$7,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Youth Frontiers: $5k → 11%International Institute of Minnesota: $1k → 14%Amherst H Wilder Foundation: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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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2
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

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3
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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4
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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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
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
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Minnesota Justice Foundation

The minnesota justice foundation creates opportunities for law students to engage in public interest and pro bono legal service and increases the capacity of legal organizations that serve the public interest.

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Minnesota State Bar Foundation

The minnesota state bar foundation mobilizes legal community philanthropy to achieve access to justice for all minnesotans.

Crime & Legal
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Minnesota Association for Justice

The purpose of the minnesota association for justice shall be to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states; to advance the science of jurisprudence; to promote the administration of justice; to uphold the honor of the…

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10
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
12
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Mn Regional Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association — $58,905 · OtherThe Foundation of the Federal Bar Associati…Catholic Charities of St Paul and Minneapolis — $11,000 · OtherCatholic Charities of St Paul and Minneapol…BUNKER LABS MINNEAPOLIS INC — $10,000 · OtherBUNKER LABS MINNEAPOLIS INCRAMSEY COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION — $8,950 · OtherRAMSEY COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATIONCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $7,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES+3 more — $4,977 · OtherSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC — $40,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERV…THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID — $34,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AIDUniversity of St Thomas — $25,000 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasMITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — $25,000 · EducationMITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL…LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF MINNESOTA INC — $5,000 · EducationLOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTAN…GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE T…Minnesota Children's Museum — $8,800 · Arts & CultureMinnesota…ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $2,250 · Arts & CultureORDWAY CE…YOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $4,720 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $4,450 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA — $1,400 · Human ServicesCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthThe Advocates For Human Rights — $1,000 · International
Other$100,832Crime & Legal$74,000Education$55,000Arts & Culture$21,050Human Services$10,570Health$2,500International$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Foundation of the Federal Bar Association — $58,905 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID — $34,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUNKER LABS MINNEAPOLIS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION — $8,950 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMinnesota Children's Museum — $8,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF MINNESOTA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $4,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $4,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $3,297 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Robins Kaplan Foundat…Fredrikson & Byron Fo…Pohlad Family Foundat…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Otto Bremer TrustLarkin Hoffman Daly &…The Hubbard Broadcast…Hugh J Andersen Found…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation · Fredrikson & Byron Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren Ltd Found · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Taft Stettinius & Hollister Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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    How do I get to Taft Stettinius & Hollister Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Taft Stettinius & Hollister Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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