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Trillium Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $425k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANDER CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK | $50,000 |
| COMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA ACCIN LATINA | $40,000 |
| WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY WYOMING | $35,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR POPULAR RESEARCH EDUCATION AND POLICY DBA WIND RIVER FOOD SO | $30,000 |
| WYOFILE | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER | $30,000 |
| AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND | $25,000 |
| JUGAAD LEADERSHIP PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| MN350 | $20,000 |
| SAHAN JOURNAL | $15,000 |
| DEER LAKE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| MACALESTER COLLEGE | $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 (FY25–25, $30k) 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Trillium Family 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.
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k 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
- WOWYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL4× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +67%
- AHAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +28%
- WWYOFILE3× · 2022–2025 · $91k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- NDNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +169%
- TCThe Center for Popular Research, Education andone grant, 2022 · $45k
- COComunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latinaone grant, 2024 · $40k
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 land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
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…
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
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…
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.
Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor. The Lake Street Council fosters economic vitality and amplifies Lake…
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Lander Childrens Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 54 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 WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WYOFILE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MN350 ↗
- Who funds LANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUGAAD LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LANDER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SCHROEDER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SCHUBERT CLUB THE ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SUGARLOAF THE NORTH SHORE STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Sahan Journal ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds DEER LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ART SAINT PAUL ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Elmer L & Eleanor J Andersen Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fairview Foundation · Lander Community 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 Trillium 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.
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.
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