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Whaley 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
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.

Education$5.3MArts & Culture$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$264kInternational$179kReligion$88kYouth Development$33kHealth$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $308k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$500,000
WALKER ART CENTER$290,000
CRETIN-DERHAM HALL$250,000
FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY$125,000
SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE$70,000
NATIVITY SCHOOL FUND$62,500
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE$50,000
UNITED WAY$40,000
MACALESTER COLLEGE - ANNUAL FUND$30,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER STURM COLLEGE OF LAW$25,000
KIBERIA GIRLS SOCCER ACADEMY FOUNDATION$25,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES - HOPE STREET$20,000
NATIVITY OF OUR LORD CHURCH$11,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MINNESOTA$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $1k → 11%AVIVO: $1k → 11%AVIVO: $1k → 11%AVIVO: $1k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $1k → 11%AVIVO: $1k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $1k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $1k → 11%AVIVO: $1k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $1k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $1k → 11%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $70k → 14%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $50k → 14%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $50k → 14%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $4k → 14%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 35 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
19

Total granted

$8.4M
$697k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+88%

Still filing today

57%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $664k 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
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman 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

  • WA
    WALKER ART CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +87%
  • MH
    MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $521k · revenue +12%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $261k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • MC
    Macalester College - Entrepreneurship Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $225k
  • UO
    University of Minnesota - Carlson MIN Corp Program
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • WA
    Walker Art Center - Capital Campaign
    one grant, 2017 · $160k
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 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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2
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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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
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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6
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
7
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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8
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
9
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
10
Minnesota State Council On Economic Education

Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…

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11
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
12
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kgsa 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

33 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. 33 of the 61 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRETIN-DERHAM HALL SCHOOL: $2,055,500 · OtherCRETIN-DERHAM HALL SCHOOLGREATER TW UNITED WAY: $1,165,000 · OtherGREATER TW UNITED WAYMACALESTER COLLEGE - ANNUAL FUND: $1,005,000 · OtherMACALESTER COLLEGE - ANNUAL FUNDCRETIN-DERHAM HALL: $650,000 · OtherCRETIN-DERHAM HALLUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - CARLSON MIN CORP PROGRAMUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA C: $625,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - CARLSON MIN CORP PROGRAMUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $260,500 · Other+31 more: $1,308,500 · Other+31 moreWALKER ART CENTER: $1,084,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART CENTERMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $521,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICA…+4 more: $54,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $500,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $50,000 · EducationHIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB: $32,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $25,500 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationKGSA FOUNDATION: $126,000 · InternationalALIGHT: $24,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $16,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,000 · InternationalSisters Rising Worldwide: $174,000 · Human Services+2 more: $11,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $27,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $13,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementHamline Midway Coalition: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$7,069,500Arts & Culture$1,659,000Education$618,000International$194,000Human Services$185,000Health$27,500Community Improvement$19,000

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 budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $1,084,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $521,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $260,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetSisters Rising Worldwide: $174,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetKGSA FOUNDATION: $126,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB: $32,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetLITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $27,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $13,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAVIVO: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDream of Wild Health: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans to Farmers Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHamline Midway Coalition: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $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.

  • Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Sisters Rising Worldwide ↗
  • Who funds KGSA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Fr Bigelow FoundationLand O'Lakes Foundati…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Otto Bremer TrustHardenbergh FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…The K FoundationThe Graco Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN24.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Hardenbergh Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The K Foundation · The Graco 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 Whaley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whaley Foundation. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report 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
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 61 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home