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Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust

The purpose of the trust shall be the accumulation and disbursement of funds for charitable and educational purposes primarily in the areas served by wright-hennepin cooperative electric association.

$245k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Human Services$399kHealth$271kFood & Nutrition$128kCommunity Improvement$75kRecreation & Sports$46kPhilanthropy$42kHousing & Shelter$37kAnimals$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $140,583 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $245,340 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $104,757 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $97k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$50k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSS FOOD SHELF$16,983
LSS CRISIS NURSERY SERVING WRIGHT COUNTY$10,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL - ST MICHAEL$10,000
WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION$10,000
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
TRUE FRIENDS$10,000
LOVE INC HEARTLAND$10,000
ROTARY CLUB OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SUBURBAN HENNEPIN$10,000
PARK VIEW CARE CENTER$7,600
ANGEL FOUNDATION$7,500
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MN$7,500
WISHES & MORE$7,500
HOPE CHEST FOR BREAST CANCER$7,500
COMMUNITY TOYS FOR TOTS$6,000
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 (FY17–24, $306k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%WISHES & MORE: $8k → 7%RIVERWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $6k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $9k → 11%WISHES & MORE: $8k → 7%LSS CRISIS NURSERY SERVING WRIGHT COUNTY: $10k → 11%WISHES AND MORE: $5k → 7%RIVERWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $6k → 11%LSS CRISIS NURSERY SERVING WRIGHT COUNTY: $10k → 11%RIVERWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 11%LSS CRISIS NURSERY SERVING WRIGHT COUNTY: $10k → 11%RIVERWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 11%LSS CRISIS NURSERY SERVING WRIGHT COUNTY: $10k → 11%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%KINDRED FAMILY FOCUS NURSERY OF WRIGHT COUNTY: $5k → 5%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8k → 11%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES-CROW RIVER SEN: $6k → 11%KINDRED FAMILY FOCUS NURSERY OF WRIGHT COUNTY: $5k → 5%CRISIS NURSERY OF WRIGHT COUNTY: $5k → 5%KINDRED FAMILY FOCUS NURSERY OF WRIGHT COUNTY: $5k → 5%WECAN: $10k → 11%WECAN: $10k → 11%WECAN: $10k → 11%WECAN: $10k → 11%WECAN: $10k → 11%WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 5%WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 5%WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 5%WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 5%WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 5%WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 5%WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $7k → 5%LOVE INC HEARTLAND: $10k → 5%YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%LOVE INC HEARTLAND: $10k → 5%LOVE INC HEARTLAND: $10k → 5%LOVE INC HEARTLAND: $10k → 5%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.

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 27 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
9

Total granted

$1.0M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+27%

Still filing today

93%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyReligionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • C(
    CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)
    8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +189%
  • TF
    TRUE FRIENDS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +14%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF HENNEPIN COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CD
    COMMUNITY DENTAL CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • LR
    LAKE RIDGE CARE CENTER OF BUFFALO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +55%

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 Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
4
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
5
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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6
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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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
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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9
Hope Haven Inc

As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.

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10
Community Resource Connections Inc

Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.

Community Improvement
11
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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12
Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc

Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Can Do Canines. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%41%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
14%
1,959/13,954

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.

04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
28/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $66,899 · Human ServicesWRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INCCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA — $55,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTAWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK IN…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $40,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTALOVE INC - HEARTLAND — $40,000 · Human ServicesLOVE INC - HEARTLANDSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $34,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICESRIVERWORKS — $21,996 · Human ServicesRIVERWORKSNEXUS-KINDRED FAMILY HEALING — $20,000 · Human ServicesNEXUS-KINDRED FAMILY HEALINGWISHES & MORE — $20,000 · Human ServicesWISHES & MORE+2 more — $13,585 · Human ServicesCAN DO CANINES — $46,400 · OtherCAN DO CANINESSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — $34,500 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCE…INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $22,645 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH…PARK VIEW CARE CENTER — $17,600 · OtherPARK VIEW CARE CENT…WRIGHT COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH — $17,000 · OtherWRIGHT COUNTY PUBLI…Cokato Charitable Trust — $10,000 · OtherCokato Charitable T…MIDWEST REGION WHEELCHAIR SPORTS — $6,160 · OtherLAKE RIDGE CARE CENTER OF BUFFALO INC — $10,000 · OtherLAKE RIDGE CARE CEN…ANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC — $10,000 · OtherANNANDALE YOUTH FIR…+2 more — $10,000 · Other+2 moreMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $59,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS F…THE HOPE CHEST FOR BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $47,500 · PhilanthropyTHE HOPE CHES…RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyRIDGEVIEW FOU…ANGEL FOUNDATION — $52,500 · HealthANGEL FOUNDAT…Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $46,500 · HealthMinnesota Tee…SECOND CHANCE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthSECOND CHANCE…COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY DEN…HAVEN HOMES INC — $7,500 · HealthHAVEN HOMES I…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF HENNEPIN COUNTY — $70,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY AC…ROTARY CLUB OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION — $41,000 · Community ImprovementROTARY CLUB …SPARE KEY — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) — $85,309 · ReligionCROSS (CHR…RIVERS OF HOPE — $15,000 · ReligionRIVERS OF …TRUE FRIENDS — $80,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$361,480Other$184,305Philanthropy$126,500Health$126,500Community Improvement$116,000Religion$100,309Recreation & Sports$80,000

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 budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) — $85,309 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS — $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF HENNEPIN COUNTY — $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $66,899 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $59,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA — $55,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION — $52,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HOPE CHEST FOR BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $47,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $46,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAN DO CANINES — $46,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION — $41,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE INC - HEARTLAND — $40,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $34,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $22,645 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERWORKS — $21,996 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEXUS-KINDRED FAMILY HEALING — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWISHES & MORE — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPARK VIEW CARE CENTER — $17,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERS OF HOPE — $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCokato Charitable Trust — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE RIDGE CARE CENTER OF BUFFALO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC — $10,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD — $8,585 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN HOMES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPARE KEY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHOICE INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Bame FoundationEdina Realty Foundati…Mardag FoundationHunger Solutions Minn…Pohlad Family Foundat…Initiative Foundation
Otto Bremer TrustMN25.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Bame Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Pohlad Family Foundation · Initiative 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 Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust 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%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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