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University of Minnesota Foundation

A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.

$304M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$295M
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.

Education$2.1BHealth$28MEnvironment$6.7MPhilanthropy$2.7MEmployment$1.0MHuman Services$351kFood & Nutrition$203kArts & Culture$94kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $361k
  • $250k+7 grants · $304M
$353,576
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$294,797,625
FAIRVIEW HEALTH SERVICES$5,554,400
UNIVERSITY GATEWAY CORPORATION$1,300,000
BETA OF CLOVIA FOUNDATION$806,253
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$547,033
MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION$353,576
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$262,500
THE FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC$203,266
EQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION$93,880
BOWEN CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE FAMILY$64,257
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PHYSICIANS$6,283
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $351k) 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%BOWEN CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE FAMILY: $64k → 14%BOWEN CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE FAMILY: $62k → 14%BOWEN CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE FAMILY: $61k → 14%Bowen Center for the Study of the Family: $56k → 14%BOWEN CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE FAMILY: $55k → 14%Georgetown Family Center Bowen Center for the Study of the Family: $52k → 14%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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1B · 11 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$2.1B
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+1%

Still filing today

91%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
HealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • FH
    Fairview Health Services
    5× · 2021–2025 · $26M · revenue +29%
  • ML
    MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +273%
  • UG
    UNIVERSITY GATEWAY CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $6.4M · revenue +25% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • MS
    MINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +65%
  • LL
    LUPUS LINK MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY HEAD & NECK SURGERY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +19%

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
Healtheast Woodwinds Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
2
Healtheast St John's Hospital

Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.

Health
3
Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital

Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.

Health
4
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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5
Range Regional Health Services

Range Regional Health Services is an integrated health care system meeting the needs of our patients in an exemplary manner.

Health
6
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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
7
Mayo Clinic Group Return

To inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.

Health
8
University of Minnesota Foundation

A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.

Education
9
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
10
Minnesota Colon and Rectal Foundation
Health
11
University of Winnipeg Foundation Usa Inc
Education
12
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Carol E Macpherson Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%19%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%3%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr20%17%20–35yr14%57%35–55yr13%23%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
12%
4,173/35,205

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 23 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $2,048,354,177 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA+9 more — $1,745,005 · OtherFairview Health Services — $25,646,619 · Health+5 more — $1,956,803 · HealthMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $6,739,326 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY GATEWAY CORPORATION — $6,400,000 · EducationTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $1,937,796 · PhilanthropyBETA CHAPTER OF CLOVIA FOUNDATION — $806,253 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $132,592 · PhilanthropyGEORGETOWN FAMILY CENTER — $351,249 · Human ServicesFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $203,266 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,050,099,182Health$27,603,422Environment$6,739,326Education$6,400,000Philanthropy$2,876,641Human Services$351,249Food & Nutrition$203,266

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 budgetFairview Health Services — $25,646,619 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $6,739,326 over 9y, 10% of budgetUNIVERSITY GATEWAY CORPORATION — $6,400,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $1,937,796 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBETA CHAPTER OF CLOVIA FOUNDATION — $806,253 over 1y, 80% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PHYSICIANS — $618,509 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $553,687 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $485,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN FAMILY CENTER — $351,249 over 6y, 15% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $203,266 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND — $132,592 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetStarkey Hearing Foundation — $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFairview Foundation — $117,574 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetEQUITY IN ACTION WAY FOUNDATION — $93,880 over 1y, 12% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP — $49,503 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY HEAD & NECK SURGERY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCarol E Macpherson Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc — $19,122 over 1y, 42% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS UNIVERSITY ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH7.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 University of Minnesota 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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