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Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$205,898
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,171,043
Organizations funded a year
19 to 42
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$99M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $911k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$5.9M5%
FY202322$5.9M18%
FY202219$6.0M21%
FY202119$5.9M0%
FY202019$5.3M5%
FY201942$5.3Mn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$31MReligion$377kArts & Culture$31kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of St Thomas$3,731,66860%
St Olaf College$1,928,65560%
Gustavus Adolphus College$1,556,20160%
Augsburg University$1,421,36360%
Macalester College$1,353,88360%
St Catherine University$1,287,28160%
Carleton College$1,280,59260%
Bethel University$1,238,26060%
Concordia College Corporation$1,143,97860%
College of St Scholastica Inc$1,123,49960%
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All grantees of Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of St Thomas$3,731,66860%
St Olaf College$1,928,65560%
Gustavus Adolphus College$1,556,20160%
Augsburg University$1,421,36360%
Macalester College$1,353,88360%
St Catherine University$1,287,28160%
Carleton College$1,280,59260%
Bethel University$1,238,26060%
Concordia College Corporation$1,143,97860%
College of St Scholastica Inc$1,123,49960%
College of Saint Benedict$956,76560%
University of Northwestern - St Paul$908,52860%
Concordia University St Paul$857,23540%
Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota$737,96040%
St Marys University of Minnesota$593,90460%
Minneapolis College of Art and Design$344,95940%
St John's University$330,7232n/a
Saint John's University$153,46510%
Cretin-Derham Hall$30,8191n/a
Benilde St Margarets High School$26,9331n/a
Academy of the Holy Angels$19,5801n/a
Leech Lake Tribal College$16,5002n/a
The Blake School$15,84310%
Breck School$14,52810%
St Thomas Academy$13,7501n/a
Shattuck-St Mary's School$13,69110%
St Paul Academy and Summit School$12,52510%
Cathedral High School$12,4651n/a
Holy Family Catholic High School$11,9571n/a
Red Lake Nation College$11,50020%
Minnehaha Academy$9,95410%
Providence Academy$9,35610%
White Earth Tribal and Community College$6,50010%
Trinity Schools Inc$5,5601n/a
Lutheran High School$5,5001n/a
Legacy Christian Academy$4,57410%
Heritage Christian Academy$3,55710%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $3,731,668 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt Olaf College: $1,928,655 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGustavus Adolphus College: $1,556,201 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAugsburg University: $1,421,363 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMacalester College: $1,353,883 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt Catherine University: $1,287,281 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCarleton College: $1,280,592 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBethel University: $1,238,260 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetConcordia College Corporation: $1,143,978 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCollege of St Scholastica Inc: $1,123,499 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCollege of Saint Benedict: $956,765 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Northwestern - St Paul: $908,528 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetConcordia University St Paul: $857,235 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota: $737,960 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSt Marys University of Minnesota: $593,904 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMinneapolis College of Art and Design: $344,959 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSaint John's University: $153,465 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Blake School: $15,843 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreck School: $14,528 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShattuck-St Mary's School: $13,691 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Paul Academy and Summit School: $12,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRed Lake Nation College: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMinnehaha Academy: $9,954 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence Academy: $9,356 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWhite Earth Tribal and Community College: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegacy Christian Academy: $4,574 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeritage Christian Academy: $3,557 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

United Way WorldwideThe Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Catholic Community Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…The K FoundationIbm International Fou…The US Charitable Gif…The Blackbaud Giving …CommunitygivingKopp Family FoundationBaird Foundation Inc
United Way WorldwideVA33.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Communitygiving · Kopp Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity

How much does Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity give?
Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity reported 22 grants totaling $5,918,593 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (91%), Religion (1%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of St Thomas ($3.7M), St Olaf College ($1.9M), Gustavus Adolphus College ($1.6M).
Does Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way Worldwide, The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity based?
Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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