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The Lockridge Grindal Nauen Foundation at a glance

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The Lockridge Grindal Nauen 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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$39kHousing & Shelter$16kArts & Culture$15kEducation$10kCivil Rights$9kCrime & Legal$5kPublic Benefit$4kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$376k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Foundation of the FBA$15,000
Neighborhood House$10,000
Seward Neighborhood Group$3,508
Legal Rights Center$2,500
Protect Minnesota$2,500
East Side Neighborhood Services$2,500
Reader-Writer$2,500
PFund Foundation$2,000
Urban Bird Collective$1,500
Wanton Injustice Legal Detail$1,000
Meals on Wheels of NW Dakota County$1,000
Lutheran Social Service of MN$1,000
Inver Hills Church$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Lutheran Social Service of MN: $1k → 14%East Side Neighborhood Services: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42k · 3 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$42k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
Civil RightsEmploymentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHuman ServicesReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue -4%
  • PF
    PHILANTHROFUND FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +16%
  • UB
    URBAN BIRD COLLECTIVE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue -30%

Funded once

  • AH
    AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +74%
  • PE
    PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +2%
  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters Twin Citie
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
2
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

—
4
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

—
5
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

—
6
Lake Street Council

Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor. The Lake Street Council fosters economic vitality and amplifies Lake…

Community Improvement
7
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
8
Men As Peacemakers

Map is a local, statewide, and national resource for communities looking to develop and implement proven, innovative, community-centered strategies that address gender-based violence. using map's "we are all connected" (waac) prevention…

Civil Rights
9
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

—
10
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…

Community Improvement
11
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
12
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans; the most unlike its peers is Urban Bird Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $35,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSESeward Neighborhood Group: $3,508 · Community ImprovementSeward Neighborhood GroupFoundation of the FBA: $15,000 · OtherFoundation of the FBAPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONBig Brothers Big Sisters Twin Citie: $2,670 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters Twin Citi…MidMinnesota Legal Aid: $2,250 · OtherMidMinnesota Legal AidPROTECT MINNESOTA: $2,500 · OtherPROTECT MINNESOTA+5 more: $4,500 · Other+5 moreAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $15,000 · ReligionAGATE HOUSING & …PHILANTHROFUND FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Civil RightsURBAN BIRD COLLECTIVE: $2,500 · Civil RightsWANTON INJUSTICE LEGAL DETAIL: $1,000 · Civil RightsREADERWRITER: $2,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL RIGHTS CENTER: $2,500 · Crime & LegalEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $1,000 · Human ServicesRISE INCORPORATED: $1,000 · EmploymentMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $1,000 · EmploymentThe Lift Garage: $1,000 · Employment
Community Improvement$38,508Other$31,920Religion$15,000Civil Rights$7,500Crime & Legal$5,000Human Services$3,500Employment$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILANTHROFUND FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSeward Neighborhood Group: $3,508 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetURBAN BIRD COLLECTIVE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVEAP Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lift Garage: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Pentair FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Greater Twin Cities U…The Graco FoundationXcel Energy FoundationUnited Way WorldwideThe Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pentair Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Graco Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lockridge Grindal Nauen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lockridge Grindal Nauen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Lockridge Grindal Nauen Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Lockridge Grindal Nauen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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