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The Minneapolis Foundation

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 difference in their communities.

$129M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1,565
Grants FY2025still arriving
46
States reached
$6.1M
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$164MArts & Culture$83MHealth$80MPhilanthropy$76MEnvironment$52MHuman Services$51MCommunity Improvement$45MReligion$43MOther$0
02FY2025 · 1565 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1,565 grants below total $121,702,939, the rows itemized in this filing. The $128,958,187 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,255,248 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k261 grants · $1.8M
  • $10k–50k851 grants · $19M
  • $50k–250k364 grants · $35M
  • $250k+89 grants · $66M
$25,000
Median grant
46
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT MN SCHOOLS$6,055,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$4,315,179
ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION$3,967,894
CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$3,312,113
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$2,980,694
MINNESOTA COUNCIL OF FOUNDATIONS$1,715,000
TCHFH LENDING INC$1,590,000
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC$1,491,000
SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 1$1,407,530
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC$1,241,006
INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION$1,168,703
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$1,165,338
GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION$942,450
VENN FOUNDATION$880,000
PANGEA WORLD THEATER$878,500
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 (FY17–25, $33.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHFIELD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $300k → 11%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $1.3M → 9%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $435k → 14%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JFCS: $600k → 14%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC: $250k → 13%NORTHFIELD COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER: $229k → 11%IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION: $242k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $594k → 14%MYHEALTH FOR TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS: $254k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $381k → 14%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $450k → 14%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $250k → 14%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $361k → 14%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $254k → 14%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $233k → 14%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $262k → 11%REDEEMER CENTER FOR LIFE INC: $252k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $553k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $407k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $362k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $233k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $805k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $665k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $580k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $485k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $372k → 11%AVIVO: $336k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $326k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $287k → 11%AVIVO: $282k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $282k → 11%AVIVO: $267k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $262k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $260k → 11%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $268k → 11%WALKER METHODIST HEALTH CENTER: $412k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE MINNESOTA: $324k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $278k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $240k → 11%ISUROON: $750k → 11%FRASER: $278k → 11%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA: $310k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $352k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS: $352k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $350k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $335k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS: $334k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $254k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
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MO
KY
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MD
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AR
TN
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HI
OK
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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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Minneapolis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Minneapolis Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$651M · 1657 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

1657 repeat relationships: 1033 still active in FY2025, 624 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1657
189

Total granted

$651M
$20M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
0%

Still filing today

83%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • GM
    GREAT MN SCHOOLS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $32M · revenue +246% · 97% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25M · revenue +105%
  • MP
    Minneapolis Parks Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.3M · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • AI
    AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2022 · $875k · revenue -28%
  • GC
    GUARANTY COMMERCIAL TITLE INC - MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $750k
  • LT
    LAND TITLE INC - BLUE HORN PROPERTIES LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $750k
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
Minnesota Business Partnership

To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.

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2
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and

Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper

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3
Minnesota Medical Association

Be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state & the best place to practice

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4
Minnesota Internship Center

To partner with communities and learners to achieve academic, career, and life success.

Education
5
Arts Midwest Incorporated

To build unprecedented opportunity across the Midwest by advancing creativity.

Arts & Culture
6
Community Shares of Minnesota

To create a fair, just, and equitable minnesota.

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7
Diversity Council

Education to embrace diversity for building a healthy, inclusive, and prosperous community.

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8
Great Plains Food Bank

The Great Plains Food Bank is North Dakota's largest hunger-relief organization with a mission to end hunger through community partnerships. Our vision is a hunger-free North Dakota and western Minnesota. Both our mission and vision are…

Food & Nutrition
9
Reach for Resources Inc

Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential.

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10
University of Minnesota Physicians

To provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.

Health
11
Mental Health Minnesota

Mental Health Minnesota is the voice of lived mental health expenience. We carry that declaration forward as we work to advance mental health and well-being for all, increase access to mental health treatment and services, and provide…

Health
12
University of Minnesota Foundation

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving; the most unlike its peers is The Museum of Russian Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

1697 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1697 of the 2,000 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.

150
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
478
Early backer (in before they grew)
1640/1697
Grantees still filing
1193/1697
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREAT MN SCHOOLS: $32,110,500 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLSUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,473,795 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FO…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $4,827,973 · Education+28 more: $46,866,049 · Education+28 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $13,854,368 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMinnesota Council on Foundations: $5,626,057 · OtherMinneapolis Parks Foundation: $9,341,370 · OtherMinneapolis Parks FoundationSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $6,828,763 · Other+80 more: $124,355,137 · Other+80 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $15,583,407 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHAR…GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $9,966,015 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN …NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $3,273,826 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIA…PROPEL NONPROFITS: $2,905,400 · PhilanthropyGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $2,824,907 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,608,131 · PhilanthropyThe Constellation Fund: $2,560,202 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC: $2,209,590 · PhilanthropyWomen's Foundation of Minnesota: $2,185,369 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $2,155,835 · Philanthropy+9 more: $11,262,844 · Philanthropy+9 moreWALKER ART CENTER: $7,578,717 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART …DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,566,250 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER …MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $5,235,977 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA P…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $3,500,155 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES…MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $3,455,125 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS…MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $3,133,808 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA O…GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $3,111,700 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THE…MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $2,040,230 · Arts & CultureChildren's Theatre Company and School: $1,716,147 · Arts & CultureThe Minnesota Opera: $1,708,603 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $11,230,969 · Arts & Culture+10 moreMAYO CLINIC: $5,934,379 · HealthMAYO CLIN…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,731,117 · HealthPARTNERS …Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $4,764,200 · HealthMinnesota…CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $4,332,440 · HealthCHILDREN'…ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,256,399 · HealthALLINA HE…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $4,096,495 · HealthPLANNED P…HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,476,397 · HealthHENNEPIN …Washburn Center for Children: $2,659,670 · HealthWashburn …MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $1,526,900 · Health+5 more: $4,254,411 · Health+5 morePROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $2,781,742 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $2,255,117 · Human ServicesTHE TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $1,918,465 · Human ServicesThe Family Partnership: $1,786,504 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINK: $1,725,850 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: $1,466,956 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,457,778 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROW: $1,353,459 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $1,318,325 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $1,316,980 · Human ServicesIsuroon: $1,291,595 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $1,290,929 · Human ServicesAVIVO: $1,190,136 · Human Services+10 more: $8,456,332 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $5,040,720 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $3,871,932 · Community ImprovementWEST BROADWAY BUSINESS AND AREA COALITION: $3,317,477 · Community ImprovementBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $1,975,150 · Community ImprovementMINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: $1,627,500 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $1,568,942 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,081,367 · Community ImprovementThe Banyan Foundation: $914,280 · Community ImprovementLake Street Council: $867,052 · Community Improvement
Education$109,278,317Other$160,005,695Philanthropy$57,535,526Arts & Culture$48,277,681Health$41,032,408Human Services$29,610,168Community Improvement$20,264,420

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $32,110,500 over 9y, 97% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,473,795 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $15,583,407 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $13,854,368 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $9,966,015 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetMinneapolis Parks Foundation: $9,341,370 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $7,578,717 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $6,828,763 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $5,934,379 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,731,117 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMinnesota Council on Foundations: $5,626,057 over 6y, 35% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,566,250 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $5,235,977 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $5,040,720 over 7y, 47% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $4,827,973 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $4,799,465 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $4,764,200 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $4,332,440 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,256,399 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $4,096,495 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $3,871,932 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $3,834,140 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetTHE GOOD ACRE: $3,832,350 over 9y, 43% of budgetBreck School: $3,621,664 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $3,500,155 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,476,397 over 9y, 18% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $3,465,210 over 9y, 24% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $3,455,125 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetWEST BROADWAY BUSINESS AND AREA COALITION: $3,317,477 over 6y, 16% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $3,273,826 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $3,259,520 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetOWAMNIYOMNI OKHODAYAPI: $3,247,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $3,133,808 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $3,124,702 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $3,111,700 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3,068,460 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS: $2,905,400 over 9y, 9.9% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER: $2,840,550 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $2,824,907 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $2,781,742 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC: $2,753,000 over 9y, 45% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2,736,751 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $2,686,879 over 9y, 16% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $2,659,670 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,608,131 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Constellation Fund: $2,560,202 over 7y, 11% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIA DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC: $2,380,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetMINNESOTA COMEBACK: $2,352,519 over 4y, 97% 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.

  • Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds Minneapolis Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Council on Foundations ↗
  • Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD ACRE ↗
  • Who funds Breck School ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds WEST BROADWAY BUSINESS AND AREA COALITION ↗
  • Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds OWAMNIYOMNI OKHODAYAPI ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PROPEL NONPROFITS ↗

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.

Greater Twin Cities U…Fr Bigelow FoundationTarget FoundationMortenson Family Foun…YouthpriseThe McKnight Foundati…Women's Foundation of…Headwaters Foundation…Pohlad Family Foundat…The Walser FoundationJohn and Denise Grave…Patrick and Aimee But…
Greater Twin Cities United WayMN142.1× affinity202 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Target Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Youthprise · The McKnight Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · John and Denise Graves Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family

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 Minneapolis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Minneapolis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 2000 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 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home