· Private foundation
The Head Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k80 grants · $207k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA | $250,000 |
| KENYON COLLEGE | $70,000 |
| THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $50,000 |
| THE REDEMPTION PROJECT | $50,000 |
| THE REDEMPTION PROJECT | $30,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $25,000 |
| MINNESOTA CHILDREN'S PRESS (ANNE BRATAAS PROJECT) | $15,000 |
| MCAD (MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN) | $15,000 |
| HEARD MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PBS | $10,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| GUILD | $10,000 |
| BRECK SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE PRINCIPIA | $10,000 |
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, $331k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
167 repeat relationships: 85 still active in FY2025, 82 since wound down; 9 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
KENYON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $441k · revenue +23%- MSMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS8× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +65%
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- ANABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $50k
- TYTHE YMCA OF THE NORTHone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
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…
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
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…
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
The bakken museum inspires a passion for innovation by exploring the potential for science, technology, and the humanities to make the world a better place.
How this is measured
112 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. 112 of the 215 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 KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds GRAYWOLF PRESS ↗
- Who funds The Principia Corporation ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Breck School ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE REDEMPTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GRACE NEIGHBORHOOD NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds Guild ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Center of the American Experiment ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
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 Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Target Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Phileona Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Head Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Head Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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