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Trustone 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.

$475k
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$249kEducation$218kHuman Services$110kHealth$66kFood & Nutrition$40kCommunity Improvement$33kPhilanthropy$25kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $111k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $293k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$349k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$71,000
SPARE KEY$27,000
HIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB$25,000
SAVE - SUICIDE AWARENESS VOICES OF EDUCATION$20,770
SANNEH FOUNDATION$20,000
360 COMMUNITIES$20,000
BOLDER OPTIONS$20,000
CROSS SERVICES$16,000
ICA FOOD SHELF$16,000
CAP AGENCY$16,000
PRISM$16,000
KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES$16,000
CEAP$16,000
PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC (PROP)$16,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$16,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAP AGENCY: $16k → 5%ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $5k → 7%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $2k → 14%SHALOM CENTER OF INTERFAITH NETWORK OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC: $3k → 10%SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $3k → 5%HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY: $5k → 7%SHALOM CENTER OF INTERFAITH NETWORK OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC: $3k → 10%SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $3k → 5%PREPARE & PROSPER: $1k → 14%SHALOM CENTER OF INTERFAITH NETWORK OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC: $3k → 10%ANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL: $3k → 7%ICA FOOD SHELF: $16k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $3k → 11%WOMAN & CHILDREN'S HORIZONS: $2k → 10%INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOC: $3k → 11%MATTHIAS ACADEMY: $2k → 10%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%WOMAN & CHILDREN'S HORIZONS: $2k → 10%MATTHIAS ACADEMY: $2k → 10%SIMON SAYS GIVE INC: $1k → 6%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%WOMEN & CHILDREN'S HORIZONS: $1k → 10%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%PRISM: $16k → 11%PRISM: $3k → 11%PRISM: $3k → 11%PRISM: $1k → 11%WINGS FOR WIDOWS: $1k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $5k → 11%YOUTH LINK: $2k → 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

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
GA
TX
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$985k · 48 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
123

Total granted

$985k
$271k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+28%

Still filing today

65%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BO
    Bolder Options
    6× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +186%
  • TS
    THE SANNEH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +162%
  • HF
    HIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB
    6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • MA
    MONEYWEAVE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CI
    CASES INSTITUTE - AIDING UKRAINE
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • CK
    COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -85%
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
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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3
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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4
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
5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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6
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
7
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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8
The Open Door

The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…

Food & Nutrition
9
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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10
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
11
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
12
Community Pathways of Steele County

To assist individuals and families meet their basic needs by providing resources in a healthy and caring environment. through these actions we build hope and support self-sufficiency.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Al Nolen Foundation. 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

65 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. 65 of the 202 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/65
Grantees still filing
46/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $111,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKeystone Community Services: $23,000 · OtherCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $23,000 · Other+159 more: $497,701 · Other+159 moreBolder Options: $102,500 · EducationBolder OptionsHIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB: $62,346 · EducationHIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CL…TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $37,177 · EducationTEE IT UP FOR THE TROO…MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · EducationMINNESOTA STATE UNIVER…ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · EducationASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP …AL Nolen Foundation: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $22,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE RES…SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesSCOTT CARV…INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesINTERCONGR…PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $9,435 · Human ServicesPINKY SWEA…SHALOM CENTER OF INTERFAITH NETWORK OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesSHALOM CEN…HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY: $5,000 · Human ServicesEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC: $4,551 · Human Services+7 more: $12,779 · Human Services+7 moreTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $102,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SANNE…+2 more: $4,948 · Youth Development360 Communities: $43,500 · Community ImprovementSPARE KEY: $34,500 · Community ImprovementSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $28,327 · Food & NutritionPEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC: $23,500 · Food & NutritionMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $3,618 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEAL: $2,500 · Food & NutritionKENOSHA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $2,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionSuicide Awareness Voices of Education: $33,882 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$654,701Education$267,523Human Services$118,265Youth Development$107,448Community Improvement$78,000Food & Nutrition$63,945Arts & Culture$34,882

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBolder Options: $102,500 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $102,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB: $62,346 over 6y, 2.6% of budget360 Communities: $43,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $37,177 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSPARE KEY: $34,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSuicide Awareness Voices of Education: $33,882 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $28,327 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC: $23,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $23,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $22,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $21,547 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $20,485 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAL Nolen Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetProject Concern of Cudahy-St Francis Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $9,435 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHALOM CENTER OF INTERFAITH NETWORK OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY FUND: $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $6,414 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,429 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC: $4,551 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,515 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $3,618 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth: $3,364 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION: $3,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENOSHA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC: $1,867 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,837 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $1,722 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI MINNESOTA: $1,686 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACK'S BASKET: $1,679 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,630 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $1,584 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST SPECIAL SERVICES INC: $1,500 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.

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Pohlad Family Foundat…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe Jamf Nation Globa…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Russell T Lund Charit…
Xcel Energy FoundationMN44.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Russell T Lund Charitable Trust

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 Trustone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trustone 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Trustone Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Trustone Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 202 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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