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Thomas and Julianne Youngren 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.

$331k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.5MHealth$464kCrime & Legal$350kInternational$218kPhilanthropy$140kEducation$135kPublic Safety & Disaster$85kHousing & Shelter$77kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Minnesota Historical Society$60,000
Science Museum of Minnesota$50,000
Zero Abuse Project$50,000
Mayo Clinic$25,000
Theatre Latte Da$25,000
Childrens Shelter of Cebu$20,000
Many Rivers Montessori$15,000
Twin Cities Public Television Inc$15,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$10,000
Duluth Playhouse Inc$5,000
Second Harvest Heartland$5,000
Loaves and Fishes Housing Inc$5,000
Friends of the Boundary Waters$5,000
MINNESOTA TEEN CHALLENGE$5,000
Children's Theatre Company and School$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women: $5k → 15%American National Red Cross: $15k → 14%Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women: $5k → 15%American National Red Cross: $10k → 14%Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women: $5k → 15%Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women: $4k → 15%Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 33 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -73% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
3

Total granted

$2.9M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-73%

Still filing today

88%
100%

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

  • MH
    MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +12%
  • SM
    SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $396k · revenue +7%
  • CS
    CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU
    9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • FF
    Fairview Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue -84%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +30%
  • TP
    THE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -73%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Great Northern Winter Festival

The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…

Arts & Culture
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
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
4
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
5
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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6
Minnesota Environmental Partnership

The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.

Environment
7
Minnesota Children's Museum

Minnesota Children's Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. The museum helps to instill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing the real-world skills children…

Arts & Culture
8
Minnesota Orchestral Association

The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
9
Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

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10
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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11
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
12
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healtheast Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Preemptive Love Coalition. 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%6%<5yr12%9%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr18%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%3%<5yr12%13%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr16%15%35–55yr18%47%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,953

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.

05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $540,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETYSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $396,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTATHEATER LATTE DA — $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER LATTE DAMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $95,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIAGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $95,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATIONHEART OF DANCE — $89,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF DANCE+4 more — $101,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreZERO ABUSE PROJECT — $340,000 · Crime & LegalZERO ABUSE PR…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $30,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVE…HEALTHEAST FOUNDATION — $140,000 · OtherHEALTHEAST FOUNDATIO…Mayo Clinic — $90,000 · OtherMayo ClinicCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDA…TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $25,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $85,000 · OtherAmerican National Re…SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN — $22,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $40,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEART…LOAVES & FISHES HOUSING INC — $22,000 · Other+8 more — $104,000 · Other+8 moreCHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU — $190,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $30,000 · InternationalHABITAT F…INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — $23,000 · InternationalINTERNATI…CONVOY OF HOPE — $10,000 · InternationalGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc — $80,000 · HealthFairview Foundation — $70,000 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION — $140,000 · PhilanthropyMANY RIVERS MONTESSORI — $120,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,491,000Crime & Legal$370,000Other$578,000International$253,000Health$180,000Philanthropy$140,000Education$120,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $540,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $396,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetZERO ABUSE PROJECT — $340,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU — $190,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTHEATER LATTE DA — $175,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetHEALTHEAST FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMANY RIVERS MONTESSORI — $120,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $95,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF DANCE — $89,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFairview Foundation — $70,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION — $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN — $22,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES HOUSING INC — $22,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR YOUTH CHORUS INC — $20,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetDULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC — $18,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School — $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUGARBUSH TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC — $17,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARTLEY NATURE CENTER — $14,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERS OF HOPE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCYCLISTS OF GITCHEE GUMEE SHORES — $10,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetDuluth Cross Country Ski Club — $10,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTIMBERLAND HILLS FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustRaft Charitable Found…Minnesota Power Found…Duluth-Superior Area …Xcel Energy FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Lloyd K Johnson Found…The Graco FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…United Way WorldwideEdward Jones Foundati…
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL19.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Raft Charitable Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · The Graco Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Edward Jones 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 Thomas and Julianne Youngren 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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