Minnesota · Nonprofit
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,877,851 to it, the largest being Margaret A Cargill Foundation ($40,713,809). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year. SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$739M
Recipients
2,956
Contributions on record
$116M
Donors on record
162
Payments out run 6.4x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared funderslocal
- Securian Financial Foundationportfolio match
- Mary T and James J Hill Library Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 6% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $15M.
26 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $4.4M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Minneapolis Foundation); $315k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Saint Paul Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 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.
Where its funders are
92% of SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA 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. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 145 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 107 organizations near you
- Securian Financial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary T and James J Hill Library Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lilian Wright & C Emil Berglund Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr David & Karen Olson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- General Mills Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sandcastle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James M Stanton Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Mainshared funderslocalMO · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 107 organizations near you
- Mortenson Family Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 112 organizations that share your funders
- Wem Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesotashared fundersMN · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 17 related entities
- Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation Holdings I LLC · disregarded
- Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation Holdings II LLC · disregarded
- Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation Holdings III LLC · disregarded
- Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation Holdings IV LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,877,851 to it, the largest being Margaret A Cargill Foundation ($40,713,809). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year. SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $110,877,851 in grants to SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION?
- Margaret A Cargill Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $40,713,809 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 145funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing