· Private foundation
Wings Financial Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TWIN CITIES JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| EVERY MEAL | $9,900 |
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,200 |
| AFFINITY PLUS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FINANCIAL PURPOSE INC | $5,000 |
| MY CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VEAP | $5,000 |
| MAGNIFI FINANCIAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MINNESOTA CREDIT UNION NETWORK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BLAZE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBESTPREP8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +39%
- TCTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY4× · 2021–2024 · $29k · revenue +33%
- 3C360 Communities5× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- WDWINGS DONATION TO URBAN VENTURESone grant, 2020 · $50k
- 3O3M OPENone grant, 2022 · $13k
- TFTOYS FOR TOTSone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
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.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
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…
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…
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 194 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BESTPREP ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds 360 Communities ↗
- Who funds BLAZE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOPLINE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOR WIDOWS ↗
- Who funds VEAP 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.
Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Allina Health System · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wings Financial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wings Financial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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