Minnesota · Nonprofit
HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,817,826 to it, the largest being LYNNE & ANDREW REDLEAF FOUNDATION ($12,005,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $61M
What Hennepin Health Foundation does
Mission
Hhf supports the mission of hhs: we partner with our community, our patients and their families to ensure access to outstanding care for everyone, while improving health and wellness through teaching, patient and community education, and research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Innovations in patient care: programs funded in this area help to improve the patient and family experience, reduce barriers to health care access, assist with social determinants of health and launch innovations in care delivery. Examples of funded activities include volunteer services, inspire arts program, children's literacy, redleaf center for family healing, renovations to patient and family waiting areas, and a variety of specific department funds for urgent patient needs.
$4,709,039 spentof which $6,380,278 as grants$195,832 earned by the program60% of program spendingEducating the workforce of tomorrow: hhs is the state's primary training center for physicians, nurses, ancillary care, pre-hospital emergency personnel and other health professions. Funded programs include: talent garden program with youth summits exposing youth to future careers in medicine, a scholarship program to assist employees in nonpatient care areas in entering health careers, various ongoing training funds for hospital departments and clinics, a fund to support emergency medicine residency education and hennepin medical history center which collects, preserves and interprets the history of hhs, metropolitan medical center and its organizational predecessors.
$1,377,021 spentof which $52,538 as grants18% of program spendingTrauma and critical care: provides funding to patient care services related to hhs's level 1 trauma designation. Funded programs include patient comfort in traumatic brain injury, the burn unit, stroke, heart health, poison control and toxicology care, care during and after transplant, and care in dealing with the effects of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse and neglect. Operating the largest multi-chamber hyperbaric oxygen (hbo) changer in the state, the hbo provided over 5,100 treatments in 2025. The minnesota regional poison center, north and south dakota, managed at hhs, handled over 61,800 calls in 2025.
$1,468,329 spentof which $2,293 as grants19% of program spendingClinical research: insights provided by medical research at hennepin healthcare look to lessen the impact of today's health problems. Research priorities include: addiction, covid-19, health services, infectious disease/hiv, and acute care/trauma. Financial support can impact the success of this research directed by hennepin healthcare research institute.
$248,426 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,802,815.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $43M to $54M (+27%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $348k → $2.9M.
16 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.6M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Minneapolis Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 95% · 2019 84% · 2020 42% · 2021 46% · 2022 57% · 2023 53% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
37% of HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
78% of HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Hennepin Healthcare System Inc · exempt
- Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute · exempt
- Hennepin County · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,817,826 to it, the largest being LYNNE & ANDREW REDLEAF FOUNDATION ($12,005,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $20,817,826 in grants to HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- LYNNE & ANDREW REDLEAF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,005,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 88 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing