Minnesota · Private foundation
Athwin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $284k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Athwin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 47 | $284k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $288k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $285k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $308k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $308k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $295k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $345k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $315k | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota | $145,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Family Partnership | $145,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cantus | $134,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Southside Family Nurturing Center | $131,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Family Promise in Anoka County | $129,500 | 9 | 9% |
| Lakes Area Music Festival | $104,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Concordia University St Paul | $101,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Haven Housing | $101,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Minnesota Historical Society | $82,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Minnesota Land Trust | $76,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($432k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Athwin Foundation 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation
How this is measured
About Athwin Foundation
- How much does Athwin Foundation give?
- Athwin Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $284,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Athwin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Human Services (15%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Athwin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota ($145k), The Family Partnership ($145k), Cantus ($134k).
- Does Athwin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Athwin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Athwin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Athwin Foundation based?
- Athwin Foundation is based in MN.
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