· Private foundation
The Luther Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $319k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $223k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $300,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $100,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS UNITED SOCCER FOR THE CITY | $63,000 |
| HUDSON HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| THE GRAHAM RAHAL FOUNDATION | $43,725 |
| MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE | $30,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC | $25,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF THE NORTH | $20,000 |
| EVERY MEAL | $20,000 |
| SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES | $15,000 |
| GLOBESERVE INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- FGFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE8× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +21%
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +83%
- EMEVERY MEAL8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +558%
Funded once
- MHMinneapolis Heart Instituteone grant, 2017 · $25k
- BGBoys Girls Clubone grant, 2017 · $25k
- RIRein in Sarcoma Foundationone grant, 2017 · $25k
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 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…
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hmong American Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 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. 58 of the 100 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS UNITED SOCCER FOR THE CITY ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF CHARITY ↗
- Who funds METRO HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE GRAHAM RAHAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Guild ↗
- Who funds WITHALL ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global 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 Luther 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.