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The Engdahl Family Foundation at a glance

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The Engdahl 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$5.3MEducation$1.4MEnvironment$800kInternational$666kFood & Nutrition$444kHuman Services$393kPublic Safety & Disaster$236kHousing & Shelter$168kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $446k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$250,000
U OF M FOUNDATION NEUROLOGY$250,000
U OF M FOUNDATION TINNITUS$150,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$100,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$75,040
ROBBINDALE WOMEN'S CENTER$60,322
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$60,318
U OF M FOUNDATION$40,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
NATIONAL NEUTROPENIA NETWORK$25,000
THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE$15,000
ABRIA PREGNANCY RESOURCES$15,000
CROSS FOOD SHELF$8,050
BREAKTHROUGH TWIN CITIES$7,000
MN FAMILY INSTITUTE$2,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $85k → 7%U OF M FOUNDATION NEUROLOGY: $250k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100k → 21%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $60k → 7%U OF M FOUNDATION NEUROLOGY: $250k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $75k → 21%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $60k → 7%U OF M FOUNDATION NEUROLOGY: $250k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $75k → 21%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $60k → 7%U OF M FOUNDATION NEUROLOGY: $250k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $60k → 21%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $50k → 7%U OF M FOUNDATION NEUROLOGY: $250k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $60k → 21%U OF M FOUNDATION NEUROLOGY: $250k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $60k → 21%U OF M FOUNDATION NEUROLOGY: $250k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $55k → 21%U OF M FOUNDATION TINNITUS: $235k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $55k → 21%U OF M FOUNDATION TINNITUS: $220k → 11%U OF M FOUNDATION TINNITUS: $150k → 11%MINNESOTA MEDICAL FDTN U OF MN: $100k → 11%U OF M COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: $100k → 11%U OF M COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: $100k → 11%REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $285k → 14%REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $285k → 14%REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%ROBBINDALE WOMEN'S CENTER: $105k → 11%ROBBINDALE WOMEN'S CENTER: $60k → 11%ROBBINDALE WOMEN'S CENTER: $60k → 11%ROBBINDALE WOMEN'S CENTER: $53k → 11%ROBBINDALE WOMEN'S CENTER: $50k → 11%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 11%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 11%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 11%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 11%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 11%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 11%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 11%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100k → 11%THE GROVE CHURCH: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 20 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +134% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
5

Total granted

$7.2M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+134%
0%

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationReligionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +111%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $540k · revenue +134%
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $444k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • MM
    MINNESOTA MEDICAL FDTN U OF MN
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • TG
    THE GROVE CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • NS
    NORTH SIDE LIFE CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
3
The Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

Health
4
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
5
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
6
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
7
Faith Community Nurse Network of the Greater Twin Cities

The mission of faith community nurse network of the greater twin cities is to work in partnership with others to bring faith community nursing to every congregation in the twin cities.

Education
8
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
9
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
10
Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute

Improve patient care and the health of our community through research and education.

Health
11
Womens Resource Medical Centers

Women's resource medical centers of southern nevada (wrmcsn) is a community-based, faith-driven not for profit 501 (c) 3 organization that exists to support pregnant women with medical care and resources to ensure healthy and thriving…

Health
12
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

12 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. 12 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

U OF M FOUNDATION NEUROLOGY: $1,750,000 · OtherU OF M FOUNDATION NEUROLOGYNATURE CONSERVANCY: $800,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCYU OF M FOUNDATION TINNITUS: $605,000 · OtherU OF M FOUNDATION TINNITUSROBBINSDALE WOMEN'S CENTER: $393,122 · OtherROBBINSDALE WOMEN'S CENTERU OF M COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $180,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $167,729 · Other+10 more: $427,050 · Other+10 moreREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,070,000 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONTHE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION: $250,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCI…NATIONAL NEUTROPENIA NETWORK INC: $100,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,345,755 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MI…Breakthrough Twin Cities: $49,800 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $540,080 · ReligionCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $52,050 · ReligionFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $443,854 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $114,000 · International
Other$4,522,901Health$2,420,000Education$1,395,555Religion$592,130International$557,854

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,070,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,345,755 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $540,080 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $443,854 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetROBBINSDALE WOMEN'S CENTER: $393,122 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY LIFE-CARE CENTER INC: $145,300 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $114,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NEUTROPENIA NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $52,050 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $49,800 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH SIDE LIFE CARE CENTER: $18,000 over 1y, 16% of budget
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 REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBBINSDALE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY LIFE-CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NEUTROPENIA NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SIDE LIFE CARE CENTER ↗

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Xcel Energy FoundationMN15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Engdahl Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Engdahl Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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