· Community foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A Call to Men | $340,000 |
| Minneapolis College Foundation | $200,000 |
| Minnesota North College | $200,000 |
| Bemidji State Alumni & Foundation | $200,000 |
| Dunwoody College of Technology | $200,000 |
| Friends of Saint Paul College | $150,000 |
| Minnesota State Community & Technical College | $150,000 |
| YWCA St Paul | $144,122 |
| Hope Community | $100,000 |
| Neighborhood Development Center Inc | $100,000 |
| Healing Justice Foundation | $100,000 |
| Possibility Labs | $100,000 |
| YWCA Mankato | $88,550 |
| Ain Dah Yung Center | $70,000 |
| Ann Bancroft Foundation | $68,500 |
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 (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 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 14% of Women's Foundation of Minnesota’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 77%.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACACTM CORP3× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +44%
- DCDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY4× · 2018–2025 · $554k · revenue +71%
- TLTHE LINK7× · 2018–2024 · $486k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- SFSOUTHSIDE FAMILY CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $324k · revenue +20%
- MSMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIESone grant, 2018 · $50k
- NTNorthwest Technical College - Bemidji Foundationone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -15%
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.
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How this is measured
268 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. 268 of the 299 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Women's Foundation of Minnesota funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Foundation of Minnesota. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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