Minnesota · Community foundation
3m Open Fund
3M OPEN FUND is a nonprofit organization created to run an annual pga tour sanctioned professional golf tournament that will contribute positively to the life in the community through donations of the net proceeds from the event.
- $700k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $647k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $28,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 27
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations 3m Open Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $617k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $861k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $973k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $1.3M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.5M | 68% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview Health Services | $2,625,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $797,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc | $660,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $555,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Twin Cities Junior Golf Program | $281,750 | 5 | 13% |
| Minnesota Section Pga Foundation | $273,500 | 7 | 6% |
| YWCA of Minneapolis | $270,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Allina Health System | $263,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | $260,125 | 3 | 2% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul | $250,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 53 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget 3m Open Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Gift Fund · Allina Health System
How this is measured
About 3m Open Fund
- How much does 3m Open Fund give?
- 3m Open Fund reported 14 itemized grants totaling $647,100, out of $700,373 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does 3m Open Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are 3m Open Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Fairview Health Services ($2.6M), Greater Twin Cities United Way ($797k), Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc ($660k).
- Does 3m Open Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as 3m Open Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Pga Tour Inc, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is 3m Open Fund based?
- 3m Open Fund is based in MN.
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