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Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
90
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$340k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$3.6MEducation$3.5MYouth Development$2.8MHealth$2.0MCommunity Improvement$1.9MCrime & Legal$1.4MCivil Rights$1.3MPhilanthropy$793kOther$0
02FY2025 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 90 grants below total $3,911,298 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,194,063 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $282,765 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $340k
$20,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A Call to Men$340,000
Dunwoody College of Technology$200,000
Minnesota North College$200,000
Bemidji State Alumni & Foundation$200,000
Minneapolis College Foundation$200,000
Minnesota State Community & Technical College$150,000
Friends of Saint Paul College$150,000
YWCA St Paul$144,122
Hope Community$100,000
Possibility Labs$100,000
Neighborhood Development Center Inc$100,000
Healing Justice Foundation$100,000
YWCA Mankato$88,550
Ain Dah Yung Center$70,000
Ann Bancroft Foundation$68,500
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Dakota Wicohan: $49k → 11%Family Safety Network: $25k → 14%Divine Konnections Inc: $50k → 15%YWCA Mankato: $89k → 15%Tides Center: $50k → 10%Dakota Wicohan: $40k → 11%Divine Konnections Inc: $25k → 15%YWCA Mankato: $35k → 15%New York Women's Foundation Inc: $243k → 17%New York Women's Foundation Inc: $175k → 17%New York Women's Foundation Inc: $25k → 17%Possibility Labs: $100k → 10%YWCA Duluth: $75k → 15%YWCA Duluth: $40k → 15%The Link: $175k → 11%The Link: $76k → 11%The Link: $72k → 11%The Link: $64k → 11%The Link: $45k → 11%The Link: $34k → 11%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $40k → 11%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $36k → 11%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $30k → 11%YWCA of St Paul: $166k → 14%YWCA St Paul: $160k → 14%Minnesota African Women's Association (MAWA): $50k → 11%YMCA of St Paul: $150k → 14%YWCA of St Paul: $150k → 14%YWCA St Paul: $144k → 14%YWCA St Paul: $141k → 14%Minnesota African Women's Association (MAWA): $29k → 11%YWCA St Paul: $80k → 14%YWCA St Paul: $78k → 14%Neighborhood Development Center Inc: $101k → 14%Neighborhood Development Center Inc: $100k → 14%Ain Dah Yung Center: $70k → 14%Division of Indian Work: $37k → 11%Esperanza United: $31k → 14%Ain Dah Yung Center: $30k → 14%Breaking Free Inc: $30k → 14%Esperanza United: $26k → 14%Amherst H Wilder Foundation: $25k → 14%Ayada Leads: $28k → 11%YWCA of Minneapolis: $40k → 11%YWCA of Minneapolis: $37k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $27k → 11%The Power of the People Leadership Institute: $43k → 11%The Power of the People Leadership Institute: $31k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Women's Foundation of Minnesota’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Women's Foundation of Minnesotalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 153 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

153 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 96 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

153
106

Total granted

$18M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+18%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AC
    ACTM CORP
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +44%
  • DC
    DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
    4× · 2018–2025 · $554k · revenue +71%
  • TL
    THE LINK
    7× · 2018–2024 · $486k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • SF
    SOUTHSIDE FAMILY CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $324k · revenue +20%
  • SP
    SAINT PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • NT
    Northwest Technical College - Bemidji Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
2
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

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3
African Development Center

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

Human Services
4
Advocates for Family Peace

To improve lives by ending domestic violence.

Human Services
5
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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6
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
7
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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8
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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9
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
10
Protect Minnesota

Protect Minnesota promotes a culture of health and safety for all Minnesotans by preventing gun violence through research education advocacy and community investment. We emphasize prevention using a public health model and we seek to build…

Education
11
Youthprise

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.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoration for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%5%<5yr12%16%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr18%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%3%<5yr12%12%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr18%21%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%5/299
the rest of the field
10%
3,824/38,690

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

268 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. 268 of the 299 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)
71
Early backer (in before they grew)
259/268
Grantees still filing
161/268
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul — $1,067,606 · Human ServicesYoung Women's Christian As…NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $489,965 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATIO…THE LINK — $486,391 · Human ServicesTHE LINKCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $217,040 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $200,500 · Human ServicesDAKOTA WICOHAN — $186,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH — $168,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $161,540 · Human Services+28 more — $1,693,100 · Human Services+28 moreFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $880,000 · OtherFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGEuCodeGirl — $301,878 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $293,270 · OtherMEN AS PEACEMAKERS — $404,009 · OtherMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION — $359,000 · Other+86 more — $5,704,932 · Other+86 moreDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $553,500 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEG…FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE — $350,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF SAIN…SOUTHSIDE FAMILY CHARTER SCHOOL — $323,985 · EducationSOUTHSIDE FAMIL…MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationMINNEAPOLIS COM…BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationBEMIDJI STATE U…MIGIZI Communications Inc — $185,500 · EducationMIGIZI Communic…AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $111,250 · EducationPROJECT DIVA — $101,500 · EducationUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND — $97,500 · Education+16 more — $662,910 · Education+16 moreOUR JUSTICE — $344,427 · HealthOUR JUSTI…Family Tree Inc — $180,860 · HealthFamily Tr…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA — $161,820 · HealthPLANNED P…Firecracker Foundation — $160,000 · HealthFirecrack…DISCAPACITADOS ABRIENDOSE CAMINOS — $140,500 · HealthDISCAPACI…Healing Justice Foundation — $127,500 · HealthHealing J…Annex Teen Clinic Inc — $94,860 · HealthAnnex Tee…TEREBINTH REFUGE — $93,750 · HealthTEREBINTH…SEXUAL VIOLENCE CENTER — $70,500 · HealthRECLAIM — $69,500 · Health+8 more — $296,250 · Health+8 moreACTM CORP — $1,002,500 · Community ImprovementPROJECT FINE — $131,500 · Community Improvement+5 more — $170,300 · Community ImprovementMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S SEXUAL ASSUALT COALITION — $115,500 · Crime & LegalVIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROJECT — $112,500 · Crime & LegalMinnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault — $108,253 · Crime & LegalCOMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC — $85,000 · Crime & LegalHNUB TSHIAB - HMONG WOMEN ACHIEVING TOGETHER — $84,000 · Crime & LegalFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $62,500 · Crime & LegalPEACEMAKER RESOURCES — $54,000 · Crime & LegalGENDER JUSTICE — $50,000 · Crime & LegalGIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY INC — $40,000 · Crime & LegalCORNERHOUSE — $32,500 · Crime & LegalOSTARA INITIATIVE — $30,750 · Crime & LegalDomestic Abuse Project Inc — $30,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $20,000 · Crime & LegalNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $258,500 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $241,941 · PhilanthropyACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES — $95,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $56,000 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NONPROFITS — $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY INC — $32,624 · PhilanthropyVENN FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $28,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $44,750 · Philanthropy
Human Services$4,670,642Other$7,943,089Education$2,786,145Health$1,739,967Community Improvement$1,304,300Crime & Legal$825,003Philanthropy$822,315

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul — $1,067,606 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetACTM CORP — $1,002,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $553,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $489,965 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE LINK — $486,391 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetMEN AS PEACEMAKERS — $404,009 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION — $359,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE — $350,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetOUR JUSTICE — $344,427 over 8y, 35% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY CHARTER SCHOOL — $323,985 over 1y, 13% of budgetKwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA — $260,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $258,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES — $257,950 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $241,941 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE — $225,099 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $217,040 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $216,800 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC — $211,360 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $200,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetBEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $193,238 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $189,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetDAKOTA WICOHAN — $186,500 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetMIGIZI Communications Inc — $185,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetFamily Tree Inc — $180,860 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetST PAUL YOUTH SERVICES — $180,500 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH — $168,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA — $161,820 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $161,540 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFirecracker Foundation — $160,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetSEAD PROJECT — $159,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION — $151,750 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER — $145,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDISCAPACITADOS ABRIENDOSE CAMINOS — $140,500 over 5y, 41% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC — $136,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MANKATO — $133,700 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetPROJECT FINE — $131,500 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetHealing Justice Foundation — $127,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $125,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $124,911 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWE HEALTH CLINIC P A — $121,500 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S SEXUAL ASSUALT COALITION — $115,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetPOWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $115,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetBAGOSENDAAN — $114,000 over 8y, 85% of budgetMINNESOTA AFRICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION — $113,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetVIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROJECT — $112,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $111,250 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul ↗
  • Who funds ACTM CORP ↗
  • Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LINK ↗
  • Who funds MEN AS PEACEMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds OUR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE FAMILY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Kwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA ↗
  • Who funds NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds OUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds DAKOTA WICOHAN ↗
  • Who funds MIGIZI Communications Inc ↗
  • Who funds Family Tree Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds Firecracker Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SEAD PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DISCAPACITADOS ABRIENDOSE CAMINOS ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Headwaters Foundation…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustFr Bigelow FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…The McKnight Foundati…YouthpriseMardag FoundationThe Bush FoundationMedica FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN118.9× affinity128 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The McKnight Foundation · Youthprise · Mardag Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Medica Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Women's Foundation of Minnesota 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
77report 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

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 299 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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