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University of St Thomas

Inspired by catholic intellectual tradition, the university of st.

$217M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
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.

Community Improvement$352kCrime & Legal$41kHousing & Shelter$24kEducation$16kFood & Nutrition$15kHealth$8k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $16,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $216,515,559 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $216,499,559 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bridging Inc$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $8k → 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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$352k · 3 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$352k
$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+40%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR ETHICAL ORGANIZATIONS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $270k · 43% of their budget
  • DC
    District Council 13 Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +3%
  • MC
    Macalester-Groveland Community Council
    4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue -4%

Funded once

  • MJ
    MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +40%
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +21%
  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +76%
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
Minneapolis Climate Action

Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…

Environment
2
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
3
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
4
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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5
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc
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6
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
7
Civic Consulting Minnesota

Ccm helps local governments achieve significant and measurable improvements by giving them the tools to be more efficient. we do this by providing private sector pro bono expertise to solve specific, tangible problems for governmental…

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8
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
9
Housinglink

Connecting people to affordable rental homes, increasing choice and access for all.

Housing & Shelter
10
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
11
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
12
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Group Minnesota Inc the; the most unlike its peers is District Council 13 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR ETHICAL ORGANIZATIONS: $269,755 · OtherCENTER FOR ETHICAL ORGANIZATIONSDistrict Council 13 Inc: $41,000 · OtherDistrict Council 13 IncMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $28,940 · OtherMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATIONBridging Inc: $16,000 · OtherMacalester-Groveland Community Council: $41,000 · Community ImprovementMacalester…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $16,000 · EducationLOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF MINNESOTA INC: $6,000 · EducationHOPE COMMUNITY INC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $7,500 · Food & NutritionOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $7,500 · Human ServicesST CLOUD HOSPITAL: $7,500 · HealthHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$355,695Community Improvement$41,000Education$22,000Housing & Shelter$7,500Food & Nutrition$7,500Human Services$7,500Health$7,500Youth Development$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR ETHICAL ORGANIZATIONS: $269,755 over 3y, 43% of budgetDistrict Council 13 Inc: $41,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetMacalester-Groveland Community Council: $41,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $28,940 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetBridging Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST CLOUD HOSPITAL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF MINNESOTA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $6,000 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.

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Amazonsmile Foundation
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 University of St Thomas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of St Thomas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 12 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 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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