· Private foundation
Target Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k86 grants · $9.5M
- $250k+28 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ACUMEN FUND INC | $1,000,000 |
| CAF AMERICA | $1,000,000 |
| ISSARA INSTITUTE INC | $1,000,000 |
| CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC | $1,000,000 |
| PEOPLES COURAGE INTERNATIONAL INC | $1,000,000 |
| COMMON FUTURE | $750,000 |
| FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $750,000 |
| POLICYLINK | $600,000 |
| EARN INC | $500,000 |
| MISSION ASSET FUND | $500,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS | $500,000 |
| PROSPERITY NOW | $500,000 |
| CHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| CAF AMERICA | $300,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $300,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $16.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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
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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
274 repeat relationships: 104 still active in FY2025, 170 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION3× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +36% · 40% of their budget
- NINAMATI INC2× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +65%
- TFTHE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE2× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +66%
Funded once
- MBMinnesota Black Collective Foundationone grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue -18% · 53% of their budget
- NVNEW VENTURE FUND (CO-IMPACT)one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- IIISSARA INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +665%
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…
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
How this is measured
341 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. 341 of the 367 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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds NAMATI INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds AVINA AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Black Collective Foundation ↗
- Who funds AGORA PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY NOW ↗
- Who funds EARN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION ASSET FUND ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ↗
- Who funds Build Wealth MN Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S COURAGE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Youthprise ↗
- Who funds ISSARA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PRO MUJER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds EMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
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 McKnight Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Northwest Area Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Hardenbergh Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Target Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Target Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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