Funding search · EIN 464350306 · Minneapolis, MN

The Helgeson Foundation

Name: The Helgeson Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

148
grants reported: $829,000
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $4,500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Climate Generation3 grants · $40,500
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center3 grants · $36,500
Cedar Cultural Center3 grants · $36,000
Voyageur Outward Bound School3 grants · $36,000
Brownbody3 grants · $31,000
Interact3 grants · $30,000
The Loppet Foundation3 grants · $29,000
Wilderness Inquiry3 grants · $27,000
Penumbra Theatre Company3 grants · $27,000
Climate Generation2 grants · $26,000

Giving over time

$160,000

2022

$146,000

2023

$136,000

2024

$387,000

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 148 grants.

$18,000
Ernest Oberholtzer Foundation · Marine On Saint Croix, MN · 2022
General funding
$15,000
Climate Generation · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$15,000
Climate Generation · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$15,000
Sieg & Doris Fischer Fdn-Agy-Main · Fresno, CA · 2025
General Funding
$15,000
Climate Generation · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
General funding
$14,000
Cedar Cultural Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
General funding
$13,500
Voyageur Outward Bound School · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$13,500
Voyageur Outward Bound School · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$13,500
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center · Finland, MN · 2025
General Funding
$13,500
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center · Finland, MN · 2025
General Funding
$13,000
Cedar Cultural Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$13,000
Cedar Cultural Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$12,000
Center for Irish Music · St Paul, MN · 2022
General funding
$12,000
Voyageur Outward Bound School · St Paul, MN · 2022
General funding
$11,500
Brownbody · Vadnais Heights, MN · 2025
General Funding
$11,500
Brownbody · Vadnais Heights, MN · 2025
General Funding
$11,500
Interact · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$11,500
Interact · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$11,000
Cedar Cultural Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General funding
$11,000
Climate Generation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General funding
$10,500
The Loppet Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$10,500
The Loppet Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$10,500
Climate Generation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General Funding
$10,000
Penumbra Theatre Company · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$10,000
Penumbra Theatre Company · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$10,000
Wilderness Inquiry · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$10,000
Wilderness Inquiry · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$10,000
Cedar Cultural Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General Funding
$10,000
Brownbody · Vadnais Heights, MN · 2023
General funding
$10,000
Voyageur Outward Bound School · St Paul, MN · 2023
General funding
$10,000
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning · Finland, MN · 2023
General funding
$10,000
The Loppet Fndn · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
General funding
$10,000
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning · Finland, MN · 2022
General funding
$9,500
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center · Finland, MN · 2024
General Funding
$9,000
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$9,000
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$9,000
Voyageur Outward Bound School · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
General Funding
$9,000
Brownbody · Vadnais Heights, MN · 2022
General funding
$9,000
Wilderness Inquiry · St Paul, MN · 2022
General funding
$8,000
Brownbody · Vadnais Heights, MN · 2024
General Funding
$8,000
The Loppet Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General Funding
$8,000
Penumbra Theatre Company · St Paul, MN · 2023
General funding
$8,000
The Loppet Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General funding
$8,000
Wilderness Inquiry · St Paul, MN · 2023
General funding
$7,500
American Composers Forum · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$7,500
American Composers Forum · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$7,000
Twin Cities Jazz Festival · Maplewood, MN · 2025
General Funding
$7,000
Twin Cities Jazz Festival · Maplewood, MN · 2025
General Funding
$7,000
Interact · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
General Funding
$7,000
Penumbra Theatre Company · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
General Funding
$7,000
Twin Cities Jazz Festival · Maplewood, MN · 2024
General Funding
$7,000
Wilderness Inquiry · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
General Funding
$7,000
Interact · Saint Paul, MN · 2023
General funding
$7,000
Twin Cities Jazz Festival · St Paul, MN · 2023
General funding
$7,000
Penumbra Theatre Company · St Paul, MN · 2022
General funding
$6,500
Center for Irish Music · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$6,500
Center for Irish Music · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$6,000
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General Funding
$6,000
American Composers Forum · St Paul, MN · 2023
General funding
$6,000
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General funding
$6,000
Interact · Saint Paul, MN · 2022
General funding
$5,500
Tru Art Speaks · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$5,500
Tru Art Speaks · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$5,000
Friends of the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge · Zimmerman, MN · 2025
General Funding
$5,000
Friends of the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge · Zimmerman, MN · 2025
General Funding
$5,000
American Composers Forum · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
General Funding
$5,000
Center for Irish Music · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
General Funding
$5,000
Tru Art Speaks · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
General Funding
$5,000
Center for Irish Music · St Paul, MN · 2023
General funding
$5,000
Tru Art Speaks · St Paul, MN · 2023
General funding
$5,000
American Composers Forum · St Paul, MN · 2022
General funding
$5,000
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
General funding
$5,000
Twin Cities Jazz Festival · St Paul, MN · 2022
General funding
$4,500
Indigenous Roots · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$4,500
Indigenous Roots · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$4,500
Spark-Y · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$4,500
Spark-Y · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$4,000
Paramount Center for the Arts · St Cloud, MN · 2025
General Funding
$4,000
Paramount Center for the Arts · St Cloud, MN · 2025
General Funding
$4,000
Tru Art Speaks · St Paul, MN · 2022
General funding
$3,500
Walker West Music Academt · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$3,500
Walker West Music Academt · Saint Paul, MN · 2025
General Funding
$3,500
Friends of the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge · Zimmerman, MN · 2024
General Funding
$3,500
Friends of Sherburne Natl Wildlife · Zimmerman, MN · 2023
General funding
$3,000
Ernest Oberholtzer Foundation · Marine On Saint Croix, MN · 2025
General Funding
$3,000
Ernest Oberholtzer Foundation · Marine On Saint Croix, MN · 2025
General Funding
$3,000
Hopewell Music Cooperative - North · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$3,000
Hopewell Music Cooperative - North · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
General Funding
$3,000
Indigenous Roots · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
General Funding
$3,000
Spark-Y · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General Funding
$3,000
Walker West Music Academt · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
General Funding
$3,000
Youth Farm · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General Funding
$3,000
Ernest Oberholtzer Foundation · Marine On Saint Croix, MN · 2023
General funding
$3,000
Hopewell Music Cooperative North · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General funding
$3,000
Indigenous Roots · Saint Paul, MN · 2023
General funding
$3,000
Paramount Center for the Arts · St Cloud, MN · 2023
General funding
$3,000
Spark-Y · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General funding
$3,000
Walker West Music Academy · Saint Paul, MN · 2023
General funding
$3,000
Youth Farm · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
General funding
$3,000
Hopewell Music Cooperative North · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
General funding

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.