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Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust at a glance

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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.

$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$399kHealth$271kFood & Nutrition$128kCommunity Improvement$75kRecreation & Sports$46kPhilanthropy$42kHousing & Shelter$37kAnimals$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $166,413, the rows itemized in this filing. The $267,631 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $101,218 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF HENNEPIN COUNTY$10,000
ROTARY CLUB OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION$10,000
TRUE FRIENDS$10,000
WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC$10,000
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
LOVE INC - HEARTLAND$10,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA$10,000
LAKE RIDGE CARE CENTER OF BUFFALO INC$8,795
HOPE CHEST FOR BREAST CANCER$8,000
PARENTING WITH GRACE$8,000
CROSS CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES$7,628
FAITH IN ACTION IN SHERBURNE COUNTY$7,500
ANGEL FOUNDATION$7,500
HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC$7,500
WISHES & MORE$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $382k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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 & MORE: $8k → 7%RIVERWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $6k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%WISHES AND MORE: $5k → 7%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%LSS CRISIS NURSERY SERVING WRIGHT COUNTY: $10k → 11%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%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%KINDRED FAMILY FOCUS NURSERY OF WRIGHT COUNTY: $5k → 5%FREEDOM FARM: $6k → 5%WECAN: $10k → 11%WECAN: $10k → 11%WECAN: $10k → 11%WECAN: $10k → 11%WECAN: $10k → 11%WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $10k → 11%THE GILLESPIE CENTER: $7k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MN: $8k → 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%LOVE INC HEARTLAND: $10k → 5%LOVE INC - HEARTLAND: $10k → 5%YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC: $8k → 11%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
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 28 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
8

Total granted

$1.2M
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+37%

Still filing today

93%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • C(
    CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)
    9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +189%
  • TF
    TRUE FRIENDS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +14%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF HENNEPIN COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CD
    COMMUNITY DENTAL CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +55%
  • HH
    HAVEN HOMES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +9%
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
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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2
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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3
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
4
Keystone Community Services

To strengthen the capacity of individuals and families to improve their quality of life.

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5
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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6
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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7
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
8
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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9
Able Inc

A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…

Human Services
10
The Lutheran Home Association Foundation

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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11
Residential Services of Northeastern Minnesota Inc

Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.

Human Services
12
Trinity Continuing Care Services

We, trinity senior living communities and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity continuing care services (d/b/a trinity health senior…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Freedom Farm. 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

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 41 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $66,899 · Human ServicesWRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INCCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: $62,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTAWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INCLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $50,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTALOVE INC - HEARTLAND: $50,000 · Human ServicesLOVE INC - HEARTLANDSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $44,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICESWISHES & MORE: $27,500 · Human ServicesWISHES & MORERIVERWORKS: $21,996 · Human ServicesNEXUS-KINDRED FAMILY HEALING: $20,000 · Human Services+5 more: $34,075 · Human Services+5 moreCAN DO CANINES: $53,900 · OtherCAN DO CANINESSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $34,500 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINC…INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $22,645 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREAC…PARK VIEW CARE CENTER: $17,600 · OtherPARK VIEW CARE CEN…WRIGHT COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH: $17,000 · OtherWRIGHT COUNTY PUBL…Cokato Charitable Trust: $10,000 · OtherParenting with Grace Inc: $8,000 · OtherLAKE RIDGE CARE CENTER OF BUFFALO INC: $18,795 · OtherLAKE RIDGE CARE CE…ANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $16,160 · Other+3 moreANGEL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthANGEL FOUNDA…Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $46,500 · HealthMinnesota Te…SECOND CHANCE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSECOND CHANC…COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY DE…HAVEN HOMES INC: $7,500 · HealthFAITH IN ACTION IN SHERBURNE COUNTY: $7,500 · HealthMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $65,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS …THE HOPE CHEST FOR BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $55,500 · PhilanthropyTHE HOPE CHE…RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyRIDGEVIEW FO…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF HENNEPIN COUNTY: $80,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY AC…ROTARY CLUB OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $51,000 · Community ImprovementROTARY CLUB …SPARE KEY: $5,000 · Community ImprovementCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $92,937 · ReligionCROSS (CH…RIVERS OF HOPE: $15,000 · ReligionRIVERS OF…TRUE FRIENDS: $90,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$436,970Other$208,600Health$141,500Philanthropy$140,500Community Improvement$136,000Religion$107,937Recreation & Sports$90,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $92,937 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $90,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF HENNEPIN COUNTY: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $66,899 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA: $62,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $60,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HOPE CHEST FOR BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $55,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $53,900 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE INC - HEARTLAND: $50,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $46,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $44,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWISHES & MORE: $27,500 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 budgetRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE RIDGE CARE CENTER OF BUFFALO INC: $18,795 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARK VIEW CARE CENTER: $17,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERS OF HOPE: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCokato Charitable Trust: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $8,585 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING PAWS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAVEN HOMES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION IN SHERBURNE COUNTY: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCHOICE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPARE KEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

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

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 Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 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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