· Private foundation
Wmn 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $174k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Guthrie Theater | $250,074 |
| Guthrie Theater | $35,023 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $29,505 |
| Minnesota Public Radio | $24,461 |
| Allina Health Foundation | $21,761 |
| Breck School | $20,201 |
| ALIA | $13,000 |
| Colorado College | $10,101 |
| Family Equality | $10,069 |
| Harvard University | $10,039 |
| Women's Foundation of Minnesota | $9,922 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| A call to men | $5,000 |
| Human Rights Campaign Foundation | $5,000 |
| Planned Parenthood North Central States | $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 (FY17–25, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Wmn Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 71%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GTGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $702k · revenue +37%
Northwestern University8× · 2017–2025 · $455k · revenue +41%- AALIA7× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +46%
- USUNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
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…
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
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…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
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…
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 55 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 GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ALIA ↗
- Who funds Breck School ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds FairVote Minnesota Foundation ↗
- Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds Womens Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONROVIA FOOTBALL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Highpoint Center for Printmaking ↗
- Who funds MILKWEED EDITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Stanley M & Luella G Goldberg Family Foundation · George Family Foundation · Hrk Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Marbrook Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wmn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wmn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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