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The Mahle Family Foundation at a glance

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The Mahle Family 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.

$350k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$578kHealth$340kInternational$180kYouth Development$120kArts & Culture$115kFood & Nutrition$65kEnvironment$50kRecreation & Sports$25k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA$90,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$40,000
CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE$40,000
COLORADO ASIAN PACIFIC UNITED$30,000
HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP$30,000
FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY$30,000
ACHIEVE MINNEAPOLIS$25,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$25,000
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA$20,000
WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $30k → 11%SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 14%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $40k → 8%HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP: $30k → 17%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $90k → 27%COLORADO ASIAN PACIFIC UNITED: $30k → 8%WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER: $50k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $30k → 11%SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 14%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $25k → 8%HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP: $25k → 17%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $88k → 27%WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER: $20k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $30k → 11%SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 14%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $25k → 8%EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE: $15k → 17%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $85k → 27%FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $25k → 11%SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 14%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $15k → 8%EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE: $15k → 17%ACHIEVE MINNEAPOLIS: $25k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $25k → 14%ACHIEVE MINNEAPOLIS: $25k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $20k → 14%ACHIEVE MINNEAPOLIS: $25k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $20k → 14%ACHIEVE MINNEAPOLIS: $25k → 11%COLLEGE POSSIBLE: $50k → 14%ACHIEVE MINNEAPOLIS: $25k → 11%COLLEGE POSSIBLE: $50k → 14%ACHIEVE MINNEAPOLIS: $20k → 11%CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $40k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $20k → 11%CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $40k → 14%CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $40k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $100k → 11%CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $40k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $90k → 11%CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $40k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $70k → 11%COLLEGE POSSIBLE: $25k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $70k → 11%COLLEGE POSSIBLE: $25k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $60k → 11%CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $20k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $40k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 12 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$1.8M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    4× · 2020–2024 · $278k · revenue +78%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +23%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • CA
    Colorado Asian Pacific United
    one grant, 2025 · $30k · revenue 0%
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
Project Success

Project success motivates and inspires young people to dream about the future, helps them take steps to get there and gives them the tools they need to achieve their goals. see schedule o for expanded mission statement.

Education
2
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership

To transform systems, structures and public narratives to advance race equity and excellence in education.

Housing & Shelter
3
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

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4
Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning

Casel is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel). our mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel) an integral part of education from preschool to…

Youth Development
5
Past Foundation

By partnering anthropology with science and technology, we invite the world to design, construct and engage in experiences that link learning to life. past works with schools, districts and states to help transform education in terms of…

Arts & Culture
6
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
7
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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8
Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute

The strategic education research partnership generates innovative, scalable solutions to our schools' most pressing problems through sustained collaborations among researchers, practitioners, and designers. we work to increase equity,…

Science & Tech
9
The Young People's Project Inc

The young people's project uses math literacy work to develop the abilities of elementary through high school students to succeed in school and in life.

Education
10
Knowledgeworks Foundation

We help our partners in states and schools work together to align policy and practice, reimagining what education can do through personalized, competency-based learning - and what it must do to prepare students for a lifetime of learning.

Education
11
Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc

In a world where zip codes can predict outcomes, prep-kc ignites potential by bringing educators and industry professionals together to build paths to meaningful careers for students across the heart of bistate kansas city.

Education
12
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College Possible Inc; the most unlike its peers is Colorado Asian Pacific United. 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDEA Public Schools: $278,000 · EducationIDEA Public SchoolsCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $150,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $30,000 · EducationEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $430,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESO…FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $150,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE HENNEP…SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $105,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEARTL…HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $55,000 · OtherHARLEM LACROSSE AND L…Colorado Asian Pacific United: $30,000 · OtherColorado Asian Pacifi…THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $220,000 · InternationalTHE CENTER FO…SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $95,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE M…MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $65,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA…ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentACHIEVE T…WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER: $70,000 · Environment
Education$458,000Health$430,000Other$340,000International$220,000Arts & Culture$160,000Youth Development$145,000Environment$70,000

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $430,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $278,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $220,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $150,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $145,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILD BEAR NATURE CENTER: $70,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Asian Pacific United: $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% 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…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mahle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mahle Family 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 13 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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