· Private foundation
The Dauwalter Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HUMANITY ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| LIVING CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH | $11,300 |
| LOVE INC | $5,300 |
| FEED THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,200 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $2,900 |
| CONCORDIA SEMINARY | $2,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,750 |
| HAZELTINE GOLF FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP | $2,400 |
| THE DWELLING PLACE | $2,250 |
| OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION | $2,250 |
| AUBURN MANORMORAVIAN CARE FDN | $1,700 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 90% of The Dauwalter Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 7%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC6× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +83%
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC6× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +33%
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +246%
Funded once
- LLLAMP LIGHTERSone grant, 2022 · $1k
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONALone grant, 2021 · $1k
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +240%
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
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.
Lutheran services in america mission: cultivate caring communities that advance health and opportunity for all by building valuable connections, amplifying our voices and empowering our members in their mission to answer god's call to love…
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Heartland alliance health's mission is to transform healthcare for the most vulnerable, particularly people experiencing homelessness, mental illness or addictions, or struggling with multiple chronic illnesses, improving health for all…
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
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…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 80 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 The Humanity Alliance ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA ↗
- Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
- Who funds ABLELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds HAZELTINE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Y2 BELIEVE INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE 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.
Open a dossier: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Minneapolis Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dauwalter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dauwalter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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