Giving in Minnesota, 2006 Edition
Giving in Minnesota Sample Trends:
Grantmaking by Subject Area
This section is a detailed analysis of grantmaking trends and patterns within various subject areas by the Giving in Minnesota sample of 110 grantmakers in the state that made total grants of $1 million or more. The section also provides an overview of state and national giving comparisons and an in-depth analysis of patterns and trends in each subject area by subcategories, such as Performing Arts, Museums and Media/Communications within the Arts, Culture and Humanities subject area, and by grantmaker type. Each subject area also lists the five grantmakers that made the largest contributions and the five organizations that received the largest total grants in the category.
To analyze trends and patterns by subject area, the Council applied the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) coding system that classifies the subject areas into 26 categories and 49 subcategories. The eight main subject areas are Arts, Culture and Humanities; Education; Environment/Animals; Health; Human Services; International Affairs; Public Affairs/Society Benefit; and Religion, each of which have various subcategories.
It is important to note that the Council codes subject areas according to grant descriptions, and when no description is available, a grant is coded according to the purpose of the recipient organization. For example, a medical research grant given to the University of Minnesota would be coded under Education if its intended use for medical research is not discernible, based on the information provided.
Only grants of $2,000 and larger are coded and included in the tallies, so total grants in the Giving in Minnesota sample do not include smaller grants or represent the total grants paid by these grantmakers.
Note to readers: The state and national comparisons should be interpreted with caution, as the Council does not include grants made to organizations located outside the U.S. because they account for only 1 percent of total grants made in the state.
Overall Subject Areas Trends
In 2004, the Giving in Minnesota sample gave a total of $743 million in grants to the eight subject areas discussed in the report, comprising 69.4 percent of all 2004 grant dollars in the state.1
As in previous years, Education, Human Services and Public Affairs/Society Benefit ranked as the three subject areas with the highest percentage shares of grant dollars, despite shifts in percentage shares among the three subject areas.
Although Education ranked first in 2004, with a 25-percent share of grant dollars, this percentage was lower than the 27-percent share in both 2002 and 2003. Human Services ranked second among subject areas, up from the third position, with a 1-percent increase in share from 21 percent in 2003 to 22 percent in 2004. Public Affairs/Society Benefit ranked third, with a decline in share from 22 percent to 17 percent in 2004. For the third consecutive year, there was no increase in shares for either Environment/Animals and International Affairs, which had the smallest percentage shares of grant dollars, with 3 percent and 1 percent, respectively, for the third consecutive year.
Subject Area Grantmaking by Grantmaker Type
Although Education, Human Services and Public Affairs/Society Benefit continue
to rank as the three subject areas with the highest shares of Minnesota grant
dollars over the past three years, analysis by grantmaker type revealed
variations in ranking and percentage of share in the subject areas. [See
Appendix vii (PDF) for a complete list of grants by subject area and grantmaker type.]
Private foundations had the largest share of grant dollars for Environment/Animals (71 percent), Health (63 percent), Human Services (53 percent) and International Affairs (44 percent). These foundations as a group also had the same shares as corporate grantmakers in two other subject areas, and had just a 1-percent lower share in Religion than community foundations.
Corporate foundations and giving programs led giving to Education among the three types of grantmakers, with a 48-percent share of giving. In addition, corporate grantmakers matched private foundations’ shares of giving to Arts, Culture and Humanities (44 percent) and Public Affairs/Society Benefit (43 percent).
Community/public foundations, which comprise the smallest portion of total grantmaking, also had the smallest shares among the three types of grantmakers in all subject areas except Religion, with a 41-percent share of grantmaking dollars to religious organizations. The next highest share was 26 percent for International Affairs, still below both private foundations and corporate grantmakers.
Largest Minnesota Grantmakers
Minnesota's largest grantmakers across all subject areas in 2004:*
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The McKnight Foundation
$80,356,659
Private foundation
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Target Foundation and Corporation
$63,583,178
Corporate foundation and giving program
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General Mills Community Action
$53,931,350
Corporate foundation and giving program
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The Minneapolis Foundation
$41,291,440
Community foundation
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E.M. Pearson Foundation
$30,883,495
Private foundation (paid out assets in 2004, no longer making grants)
* Total grants made includes only grants of $2,000 and larger. Based on available grant lists.
Top Five Recipients
The following Minnesota grantees received the largest total grant dollars in 2004:**
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Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital
$20,000,000
Health (one grant)
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Greater Twin Cities United Way
$19,680,134
Philanthropy, community fund and federated giving programs
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University of Minnesota
$17,865,281
Grants mostly for Education
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Walker Art Center
$8,806,550
Art
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts
$7,520,616
Art
** Includes only grants of $2,000 and larger.
Comparison of Minnesota and
National Grantmaking
State and national grantmaking vary somewhat in the percentage shares of total grant dollars to the eight subject areas and in the ranking of total giving to the subject areas. In 2004, Education ranked first among subject areas at both the state and national levels, with a 25-percent share for Education in Minnesota, compared to 23-percent share for Education nationally. Human Services ranked second at the state level with 22 percent, yet had just a 14-percent share nationally. The reverse was true for the Health subject area, which garnered a 22-percent share at the national level and 11 percent at the state level.
A look at the state and national giving trends by subject areas between 2003 and 2004 reveals minimal percentage change in share of grant dollars at the state level. Public Affairs/Society Benefit dipped by 5 percent in Minnesota, though grantmaking share in the category remained the same as the national level.
Fluctuations at the state level can be attributed, as indicated in Giving in Minnesota, 2005 Edition, to special grantmaking activity of one or two grantmakers awarding unusually large grants in a given year. The increase in Health funding from 2003 to 2004 is directly related to a $20-million gift to the Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital from the Blandin Foundation and Health grants totaling $4 million from E.M. Pearson Foundation. The decrease in Public Affairs/Society Benefit is related to three large gifts totaling $15 million in 2003 that were not repeated in 2004.2
1 Grants paid to subject areas by the Giving in Minnesota sample have
been extrapolated to estimate grants paid by all grantmakers.
2 From time to time, large gifts can skew the comparisons and, in these cases, the gifts are mentioned in the discussion of trends and patterns of giving.
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Giving in Minnesota
2006 Edition
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Table of Contents
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Index
Section I:
Introduction
Section II:
Key Findings
Section III:
Minnesota Giving Overview
Section IV:
Sample Trends
Section V:
Methodology
Section VI:
Appendices
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About This Report
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Giving in Minnesota, an annual research report produced by the Minnesota Council on Foundations since 1984, provides a comprehensive analysis of the trends and patterns of giving by organized philanthropy in the state.
This report provides an overview of giving by Minnesota foundations and corporations domestically and internationally, as well as giving by individual Minnesotans. The report also provides an in-depth analysis of the Giving in Minnesota sample of the largest Minnesota foundations and corporations by subject area, geographic area, intended beneficiary and support type.
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