Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL (Minnesota) receives grants from 150 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,472,944 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,597,638). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 671 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
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.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- George Washington Foundationportfolio match
- Minnesota Private College Fundportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
35% of UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 64 funders, grant income rose $573k → $2.6M.
39 of 150 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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: $1.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northwestern Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 150 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
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 12% · 2019 20% · 2020 21% · 2021 14% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% — broadly stable.
“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
48% of UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
65% of UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.4M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 26 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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.
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 150 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 93 organizations that share your funders
- George Washington Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Private College Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jack Petteys Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Scholarship Fndportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tobola Educational Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- Ernest Wentcher Educational Fundshared fundersIL · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
- Deloitte Foundationshared fundersCT · backs 106 organizations that share your funders
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 104 organizations that share your funders
- The George Washington Universityshared fundersVA · backs 59 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.
Government funding UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.9M on record.
- Department of Education$6.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 15 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Lincoln Drive Properties LLC · disregarded
- Unw Student Housing LLC · disregarded
- Centre Pointe Drive LLC · disregarded
- Unw Media Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Rosedale Square North LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: 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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL?
- UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL (Minnesota) receives grants from 150 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,472,944 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,597,638). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL have?
- IRS filings report 150 organizations giving $15,472,944 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL, 93 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,597,638 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL 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 150funders 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