· Public charity
The Hormel Foundation
Is operated for the benefit of, and to assist in performing the functions and in carrying out the purpose of the Supported Organizations.
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–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $714k
- $250k+8 grants · $36M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Minnesota-The Hormel Institute | $22,611,300 |
| Austin Community Charitable Fund | $5,380,000 |
| Riverland Community College | $4,044,739 |
| Austin Public Schools | $1,486,193 |
| United Way of Mower County | $1,247,893 |
| City of Austin | $942,694 |
| YMCA of Austin | $296,131 |
| The Salvation Army | $290,000 |
| Cedar Valley Services | $236,336 |
| Parenting Resource Center | $225,000 |
| Austin Community Growth Ventures | $130,000 |
| Mayo Clinic Health Systems-Austin campus | $122,819 |
| Austin Community Scholarship Committee | $25,000 |
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, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7.2M · revenue +9% · 85% of their budget
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN MINNESOTA6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +23%
- CVCEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +76%
Funded once
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.
Austin community education fund was created to provide scholarships to residents of austin, minnesota and the surrounding area through the austin area chamber of commerce.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Support and strengthen austin public libraries
Austin area arts applauds and advances all arts by welcoming diverse, creative individuals to share their unique talents to inspire our community.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Fostering conservation and reuse through creativity, education, and community building.
To support the production and exhibition of art and film
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
We mobilize ideas and resources to strengthen central texas.
To promote the economic, civil, industrial and cultural growth of austin, minnesota and the surrounding area.
To aggressively support new or existing industrial and other commercial enterprises for the economic betterment of austin and mower county.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 AUSTIN COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTING RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY GROWTH VENTURES ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Mayo Clinic Group Return · Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · United Way of Mower County Inc · C K Blandin Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hormel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hormel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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