Minnesota · Community foundation
Austin Area Foundation
Support nonprofit organizations by managing & distributing charitable gifts
- $221k
- Granted FY2023
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $40k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $27,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $27,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Total assets, FY2023
- $4.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Austin Area Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 2 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $97k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $138k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $68k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $31k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Olaf Lutheran Church Foundation | $77,000 | 3 | 79% |
| Austin Public Schools | $61,568 | 1 | n/a |
| Life Mower County | $58,722 | 3 | 19% |
| Friends of the Jc Hormel Nature Center | $52,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Mower County 4-H Leaders Council MN | $45,000 | 1 | 51% |
| Mower County Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Midland Institute for Entrepreneurship Nfp | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| The Austin Area Commission for the Arts Inc | $17,141 | 2 | 2% |
| Southern Minnesota Bicycling Club | $6,064 | 1 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Austin Area Foundation
- How much does Austin Area Foundation give?
- Austin Area Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $39,700, out of $221,465 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Austin Area Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (21%), Education (16%), Health (16%).
- Who are Austin Area Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: St Olaf Lutheran Church Foundation ($77k), Austin Public Schools ($62k), Life Mower County ($59k).
- Does Austin Area Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Austin Area Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Austin Area Foundation based?
- Austin Area Foundation is based in MN.
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