· Private foundation
The Huelsmann 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $221k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC SCHOOLGRANT #1 | $275,000 |
| SEELEY TRAILS FOUNDATION | $70,930 |
| CHEQUAMEGON AREA MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION GRANT #1 | $50,000 |
| STILLWATER LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BISHOP MANOGUE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $31,323 |
| COMMUNITY THREAD | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Huelsmann Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 33% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 20% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- LFLITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC SCHOOLGRANT #14× · 2021–2025 · $665k
- BMBISHOP MANOGUE CATHOLIC SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $314k
- SMST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH2× · 2022–2023 · $250k
Funded once
- WCWashington County Historical Societygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +148%
- TLTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +27%
- SPSTILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY FDTNone grant, 2020 · $35k
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.
The complete the loop coalition is a local, volunteer corporation which has successfully advocated funding and development of public trails in the wenatchee valley in central washington state since 1990.
The Stillwater Chamber is the leader in representing business and the driving force behind the economic development of Stillwater. The Chamber builds business through educational programs and establishes connections while representing…
Promote health through skiing
Sheridan community land trust preserves our open spaces, healthy rivers and creeks, working ranches, wildlife habitat, and vibrant history, while expanding recreation opportunities to connect people with the places they love.
To promote wellbeing through community-wide support of healthy, active lives. we envision a year-round series of fitness experiences: active people enjoying minnesota's great outdoors, leading healthy lives, and contributing to a vibrant…
Swedetown Trails Club (STC) is dedicated to providing the best trail experiences possible at the Swedetown Recreation Area in Calumet, Michigan. Club members work to connect people to trails, nature, and each other through outdoor…
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
Lcc is dedicated to protecting lake champlain's environmental integrity and recreational resources for this and future generations through science- based advocacy, education, and collaborative action.
To gather, engage, and educate people to celebrate and preserve the history, arts, sciences, and rich diversity of our region.
Our mission is to preserve artifacts and interpret the history of the land, peoples and events of Steele County, relating them to the history of the state and nation, and making these records and materials available to all who wish to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Cross Country Skiing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas E & Edna D Carpenter Foundation. 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 27 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 CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING INC ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CHEQUAMEGON AREA MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds Washington County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THREAD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS E & EDNA D CARPENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY CHAMBER CHORALE INC ↗
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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Raleigh Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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 Huelsmann 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.