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The Patch 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.

$923k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
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.

Religion$5.1MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.0MHousing & Shelter$750kFood & Nutrition$705kHealth$558kRecreation & Sports$90kYouth Development$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $650k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANGELICAL CONVENANT CHURCH$150,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
SALEM COVENANT CHURCH$150,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$50,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$50,000
METRO HOPE MINISTRIES$25,000
LOAVES AND FISHES$25,000
MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$25,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$25,000
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE$20,000
AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES$20,000
TRUE FRIENDS$10,000
COURAGE KENNY REHABILITATION INSTITUTE$10,000
SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES$10,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%EXODUS FINANCIAL SERVICES: $5k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $7k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $7k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $7k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $7k → 14%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $7k → 14%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $5k → 14%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $5k → 14%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $3k → 14%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $3k → 14%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $7k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $7k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $7k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $7k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $7k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $7k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $7k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $10k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $10k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $10k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $10k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $10k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $10k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $10k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $10k → 11%HOMEWARD BOUND: $10k → 11%THRESHOLD TO NEW LIFE: $5k → 11%THRESHOLD TO NEW LIFE: $5k → 11%THRESHOLD TO NEW LIFE: $5k → 11%THRESHOLD TO NEW LIFE: $5k → 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

AK
WA
MN
IL
MA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
GA
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 58 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
8

Total granted

$9.9M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+33%

Still filing today

57%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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

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Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +105%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $420k · revenue +96%
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +98%
  • EF
    EXODUS FINANCIAL SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +49%
  • BI
    BIG IDEAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -19%
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

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…

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2
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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4
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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5
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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6
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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7
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

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…

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8
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
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…

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10
Hope Haven Inc

As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.

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11
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
12
Touchstone Mental Health

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Big Ideas Inc. 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

41 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. 41 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
35/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,450,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALEM COVENANT CHURCH NEW BRIGHTON MN: $1,369,000 · OtherSALEM COVENANT CHURCH NEW BRIGHTON MNSALVATION ARMY: $900,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYEVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH: $705,900 · OtherEVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCHEVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH: $600,000 · OtherEVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCHEVANGELICAL CONVENANT CHURCH: $300,000 · OtherMETRO HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $260,000 · Other+33 more: $1,961,000 · Other+33 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $450,000 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $120,000 · EducationBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $35,000 · EducationRichfield Spartan Foundation Inc: $31,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INC: $30,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $420,000 · Food & NutritionMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $225,000 · HealthSCIENCE WITH A MISSION INC: $79,000 · HealthNEW LIFE IN CHRIST MINISTRY: $26,000 · HealthMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthHOMEWARD BOUND INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $61,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $51,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $43,000 · Human ServicesTHRESHOLD TO NEW LIFE: $26,000 · Human Services+2 more: $11,000 · Human ServicesFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $260,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $30,000 · International+2 more: $14,000 · InternationalPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $215,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING IN ACTION INC: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$7,545,900Education$711,000Food & Nutrition$420,000Health$347,000Human Services$337,000International$304,000Housing & Shelter$255,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $420,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $260,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $260,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $225,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $215,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $195,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $120,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $115,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $94,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $90,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE WITH A MISSION INC: $79,000 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $61,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF CHARITY: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $55,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $51,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $50,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $43,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSING IN ACTION INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $39,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRichfield Spartan Foundation Inc: $31,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHRESHOLD TO NEW LIFE: $26,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetNEW LIFE IN CHRIST MINISTRY: $26,000 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE DENTAL CLINIC: $20,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST SENIOR SERVICES INC: $12,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS FINANCIAL SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG IDEAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds METRO HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE WITH A MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds Richfield Spartan Foundation 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.

Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Mightycause Charitabl…Andersen Corporate Fo…Edina Realty Foundati…The K FoundationThe Jamf Nation Globa…
Otto Bremer TrustMN28× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · The K Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global 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 Patch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Patch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report 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 67 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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