· 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 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–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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Huelsmann Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 33% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 20%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Huelsmann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Huelsmann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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