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The Hegman 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Hegman Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Hegman Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $95k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k8 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER | $26,000 |
| MOUNT OLIVET LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| MINNESOTA OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM | $12,500 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $6,000 |
| NC LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| WOMAN'S CLUB OF MINNEAPOLIS | $5,000 |
| PROJECT FOR PRIDE AND LIVING | $5,000 |
| EDINA ROTARY FOUNDATION | $3,100 |
| YOUTH FRONTIERS | $1,000 |
| OUTING MN VOLUNTEER LIBRARY | $750 |
| WILD AND FREE WILDLIFE PROGRAM | $400 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MOMinnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc2× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +36%
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +12%
- PFPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC2× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- MOMOUNT OLIVET LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $15k
- VWVETS WITH A MISSIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- TWTHE WOMAN'S CLUB OF MINNEAPOLISgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
The Minneapolis Parks Foundation transforms human lives through parks and public spaces by aligning philanthropic investment and community vision.
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…
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
The minnesota private college council serves the shared needs of its member colleges and advocates for public policy that meets the educational needs of students, enhances private higher education, and strengthens minnesota's economic and…
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…
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…
With nature as our catalyst, we energize youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
The minnesota private college fund serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Frontiers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wild and Free Wildlife Rehab Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S CLUB OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDINA ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
- Who funds WILD AND FREE WILDLIFE REHAB PROGRAM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Hegman Family 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.
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.