· Private foundation
Z Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESURRECTION & LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $138,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY LACROSSE | $15,000 |
| TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS | $12,500 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $12,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE - SE MN & WESTERN WI | $10,000 |
| GIFT OF LIFE TRANSPLANT HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
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 +65% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GOGIFT OF LIFE INC4× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +18%
- BOBolder Options5× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +186%
- TITEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- LFLiving for Liz Foundationone grant, 2020 · $11k
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +55%
NEXT 18 INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +24%
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.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
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…
Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 24 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
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.
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Bolder Options ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES MIDWEST MN WI IA ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds NEXT 18 INC ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Z Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Z Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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