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To empower women to achieve their economic goals by building profitable and sustainable businesses that transform communities.

$526k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$129k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$3.0MHousing & Shelter$1.9MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$490kCommunity Improvement$445kFood & Nutrition$280kEmployment$260kRecreation & Sports$255kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $129,271, the rows itemized in this filing. The $525,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $396,429 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$129,271
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROOTS MIDWIFERY LLC$129,271
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%COTE INCORPORATED: $10k → 5%SCHOBERT INTERNATIONAL LLC: $10k → 5%PREMIER GROUP LLC: $10k → 5%OPINION BREWING COMPANY LLC: $10k → 6%D-SPOT LLC: $15k → 6%ADVANCED COMMERCIAL INTERIORS LLC: $15k → 5%CATHEDRAL OF THE PINES INC: $15k → 11%CROSSROADS OPTOMETRIC CLINIC: $15k → 5%HOME NEAT HOME INC: $15k → 5%PARAGON RESTORATION II INC: $15k → 5%AARTHUN ENTERPRISES LLC: $20k → 14%CHILDRENS WORKSHOP: $15k → 11%BLAINE ORTHODONTICS LLC: $15k → 7%PRIORITY VALET LLC: $15k → 7%MARSHALL SCREW PRODUCTS CO: $15k → 7%SARAH'S COTTAGE CREATIONS INC: $15k → 6%TIGER SUSHI: $15k → 11%SHOPJIMMYCOM LLC: $20k → 6%MANCINI AL FRESCO: $15k → 14%ESTETICA SALON AND DAY SPA INC: $15k → 14%EWC1: $15k → 14%A&J ACHIEVEMENT LLC: $15k → 11%TWIN CITIES EYE CARE PLC: $15k → 11%PZ EATZ AND CATERING: $15k → 11%ROOTS MIDWIFERY LLC: $416k → 11%ROOTS MIDWIFERY LLC: $129k → 11%LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 11%DOWCO VALVE COMPANY INC: $15k → 6%FFIMSSZ LLC: $15k → 11%COMMERCIAL CONTAINER LLC: $15k → 11%WONDERWOMAN CONSTRUCTION LLC: $15k → 11%RAS CORPORATION: $15k → 11%GENERAL STORE OF EXCELSIOR INC: $15k → 11%LE COURAGE STAFFING: $15k → 11%NEW REFLECTIONS OF HAIR DESIGN INC: $20k → 11%BIG RIG RECONDITIONING INC: $15k → 11%FACE FOUNDRIE MAPLE GROVE: $15k → 11%4 PETALS INC: $15k → 11%NORBY'S INC: $15k → 11%IMAGE SHOPPE INC: $15k → 11%WALKER ART CENTER: $20k → 11%TAPPED BEVERAGE COMPANY LLC: $15k → 11%JDD STUDIO LTD: $15k → 11%COFFEE HOUSE PRESS: $15k → 11%J MURPHY AND ASSOCIATES RAINMAKER: $15k → 11%GIVAN'S SALON AND SPA INC: $15k → 11%ALL ABOUT CHILDREN PEDIATRICS PA: $15k → 11%AUDIO LOGIC PRO SOUND COMPANY LLC: $15k → 11%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.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$615k · 4 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
717

Total granted

$615k
$7.4M

Still filing today

0%
2%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • RM
    ROOTS MIDWIFERY LLC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $545k
  • TB
    TAPPED BEVERAGE COMPANY LLC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k
  • FF
    FACE FOUNDRIE MAPLE GROVE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k

Funded once

  • RI
    ROSY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • WA
    WALKER ART CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +155%
  • AE
    AARTHUN ENTERPRISES LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
2
Theater Mu Incorporated

Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.

Arts & Culture
3
Textile Center of Minnesota

Textile center's mission is to honor textile traditions, promote excellence and innovation, nuture appreciation, and inspire widespread participation in fiber art.

Education
4
Lundstrum Center for the Performing Arts Dba Lundstrum Performing Arts

Lundstrum's mission is to cultivate a love and knowledge of the performing arts so that young people will discover their unique gifts, develop their depth of character and imagine new possibilities for their lives, ensuring access to all…

Arts & Culture
5
Minnesota Women Lawyers

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

—
6
Museum of Beadwork
Arts & Culture
7
Lyrica Baroque

The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…

Arts & Culture
8
Buntport Theater Company

Buntport theater company believes that it is necessary to create new works. in order to ensure utmost accessibility, we stress affordability, variety, abundance, and filtering creations through many minds. we believe that collaboration on…

Arts & Culture
9
Milkweed Editions Inc

To identify, nurture and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

Arts & Culture
10
Literary Freedom Project Inc

The Literary Freedom Project creates free, open spaces for communities to engage with books through weekly discussions and presentations. Our programs promote literacy, celebrate the diverse cultures of the Bronx and NYC, and foster…

Arts & Culture
11
McColl Center for Art Innovation

We envision a community where contemporary artists and an engaged public enhance their creative capacity through relevant, diverse, and accessible experiences.

Arts & Culture
12
Theater Latte Da

The mission of theater latte' da is to create new connections between story, music, artist and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center; the most unlike its peers is Afton Historical Society. 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

12 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. 12 of the 721 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROOTS MIDWIFERY LLC: $545,254 · OtherROOTS MIDWIFERY LLC+194 more: $2,190,000 · Other+194 moreWALKER ART CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET MINNESOTA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPERATUNITY THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCathedral of the Pines Inc: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN'S WORKSHOP: $15,000 · Education
Other$2,735,254Arts & Culture$40,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Education$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCathedral of the Pines Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S WORKSHOP: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLearning Disabilities Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBALLET MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetOPERATUNITY THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 10% 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 Cathedral of the Pines Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Learning Disabilities Association 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.

Metropolitan Consortium of Community DevelopersMN25.5× affinity33 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers · Amazonsmile 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 Womenventure funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Womenventure. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 721 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 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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