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W G Christianson Foundation at a glance

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W G Christianson 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.

$645k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.2MEducation$675kReligion$503kHealth$414kInternational$255kHousing & Shelter$125kFood & Nutrition$53kYouth Development$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY$80,000
HOPE ACADEMY INC$75,000
ANNUCIATION SCHOOL OF CHURCH$75,000
MONTESSORI CENTER OF MN$60,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$50,000
ABRIA PREGNANCY RESOURCES$40,000
WAY TO GROW$40,000
MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN$35,000
NPH USA$30,000
SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN$30,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING$25,000
OUR LADY OF GRACE CHURCH AND SCHOOL$25,000
SACRED HEART$20,000
FRANCISCAN UNIV OF STUBENVILLE$15,000
ETERNAL WORLD TELEVISION NETWORK (EWTN)$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $110k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $80k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $75k → 11%1HOPE FOR KIDS: $2k → 16%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $75k → 11%MWANA VILLAGES US: $20k → 16%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $70k → 11%MWANA VILLAGES US: $2k → 16%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $20k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $5k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $20k → 16%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $60k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $35k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $25k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $20k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $20k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $11k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $40k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $30k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $30k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $30k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $30k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $25k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $25k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $25k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $20k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $10k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $10k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $10k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $10k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $5k → 11%SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $50k → 11%SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $30k → 11%SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $20k → 11%SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $20k → 11%SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $10k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $5k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $5k → 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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
AL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 44 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
25

Total granted

$3.1M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+16%

Still filing today

70%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GM
    GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +48%
  • HA
    HOPE ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $321k · revenue +213%
  • UL
    UNIVERSITY LIFE-CARE CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $206k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +338%
  • N
    NEEF
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • CB
    CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -34%
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
New Life Solutions Inc

To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.

Health
2
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
3
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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4
Covenant Hospital Hobbs

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
5
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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6
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
7
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
8
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
9
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
10
Ascentria Care Alliance Inc

We are called to strengthen communities by empowering people to respond to life's challenges.

Human Services
11
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
12
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christopher N Mitropoulos Memorial Scholarship Fund. 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

62 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. 62 of the 83 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
42/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTESSORI CENTER OF MN: $272,000 · OtherMONTESSORI CENTER OF MNUNIVERSITY LIFE-CARE CENTER INC: $206,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY LIFE-CARE CENTER INCNPH USA (FKA FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS): $171,000 · OtherNPH USA (FKA FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS)OUR LADY OF GRACE CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $130,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF GRACE CHURCH AND SCHOOLSACRED HEART: $115,000 · OtherSACRED HEARTPERSPECTIVES INC: $80,000 · OtherPERSPECTIVES INCANNUCIATION SCHOOL OF CHURCH: $75,000 · OtherANNUCIATION SCHOOL OF CHURCH+43 more: $231,834 · Other+43 moreGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $425,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERYMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $171,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INCWAY TO GROW: $130,000 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROWSOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $130,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMENPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INCCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $55,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $39,000 · Human Services+6 more: $89,000 · Human Services+6 moreHOPE ACADEMY INC: $321,333 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY …FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $50,000 · EducationFRANCISCAN UN…DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO: $16,000 · Education+5 more: $10,000 · EducationJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $201,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterVOICE OF VIRTUE INTERNATIONAL: $101,500 · ReligionPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $37,333 · HealthHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $21,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $4,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $60,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · International
Other$1,280,834Human Services$1,154,000Education$397,333Housing & Shelter$211,000Religion$101,500Health$82,333International$61,000

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 budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $425,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $321,333 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY LIFE-CARE CENTER INC: $206,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $201,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $171,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWAY TO GROW: $130,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN: $130,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVOICE OF VIRTUE INTERNATIONAL: $101,500 over 3y, 35% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $55,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $39,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $37,333 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGALILEE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMWANA VILLAGES US INC: $22,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO: $16,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY: $14,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetVEAP Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPro-Life Action Ministries Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Constellation Fund: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLORIA DEO ACADEMY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST GEORGE EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEN KA SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN MEDICAL & DENTAL ASSOCIAT: $2,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget1HOPE FOR KIDS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Peter G Colton Memorial Fund: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustained Farms: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetN C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY LIFE-CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST OPTIONS FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds VOICE OF VIRTUE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds PERSPECTIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
  • Who funds GALILEE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MWANA VILLAGES US INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLTOP HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY ↗
  • Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
  • Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗

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.

Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Engelsma Family Found…The Walser FoundationKimley-Horn FoundationCatholic Community Fo…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…United Way WorldwideAmerican Endowment Fo…
Otto Bremer TrustMN15.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Engelsma Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Kimley-Horn Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment 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 W G Christianson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W G Christianson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
13report 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
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

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How do I get to W G Christianson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to W G Christianson 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 83 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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