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Wallin Education Partners

To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities.

$3.2M
Granted FY2017
31
Grants FY2017
6
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $352k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$64,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of MN-Twin Cities$1,114,000
Augsburg College$256,000
Hamline University$240,000
St Olaf College$192,000
University of St Thomas$160,200
St Catherine University$160,000
University of MN-Duluth$128,000
College of Saint Benedict$112,000
St Cloud State University$96,000
St Johns University$80,500
North Dakota State University$80,000
Individual grant recipient$80,000
Gustavus Adolphus College$68,000
University of WI-Eau Claire$64,000
Carleton College$64,000
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%University of MN-Rochester: $64k → 9%Gustavus Adolphus College: $68k → 9%St Olaf College: $192k → 11%University of MN-Twin Cities: $1.1M → 11%St Johns University: $81k → 11%Metropolitan State University: $16k → 14%Saint Marys University of MN: $32k → 14%University of MN-Duluth: $128k → 15%MN State Univ - Mankato: $80k → 15%Howard University: $16k → 14%Drake University: $32k → 10%University of WI-River Falls: $16k → 9%University of WI-Madison: $48k → 10%University of WI-Stout: $8k → 11%University of WI-Eau Claire: $64k → 12%University of Jamestown: $16k → 11%North Dakota State University: $80k → 12%Gralmbing State University: $16k → 32%Carleton College: $64k → 11%University of Northwestern: $16k → 11%College of Saint Benedict: $112k → 11%Hamline University: $240k → 14%Winona State University: $32k → 14%College of St Scholastica -: $48k → 15%Augsburg College: $256k → 11%St Cloud State University: $96k → 11%University of St Thomas: $160k → 14%St Catherine University: $160k → 14%Macalester College: $64k → 14%Bethel University: $32k → 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 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.

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St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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3
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
4
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Luther College

Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…

Education
7
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
8
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
9
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
12
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of Saint Benedict and the most unlike its peers is University of Jamestown. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $1,114,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUniversity of MN-Duluth — $128,000 · OtherUniversity of MN-DuluthSt Cloud State University — $96,000 · OtherSt Johns University — $80,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $80,000 · OtherNorth Dakota State University — $80,000 · OtherUniversity of MN-Rochester — $64,000 · OtherUniversity of WI-Eau Claire — $64,000 · Other+8 more — $200,000 · Other+8 moreAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $256,000 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $240,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAST OLAF COLLEGE — $192,000 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGEUniversity of St Thomas — $160,200 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY — $160,000 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVERSITYCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT — $112,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICTGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE — $68,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE — $64,000 · EducationMACALESTER COLLEGE — $64,000 · Education+6 more — $160,000 · Education+6 more
Other$1,906,500Education$1,476,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $240,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE — $192,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $160,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY — $160,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT — $112,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE — $68,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $64,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE — $64,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC — $48,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY — $32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Jamestown — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Wallin Education Partners 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.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    1report 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

    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 31 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5.5M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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