Minnesota · Private foundation
Bakken Family Wrc Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $268,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Bakken Family Wrc Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 23 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $1.0M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $1.0M | 3% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $1.2M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pavek Museum | $1,398,600 | 6 | 53% |
| The Bakken | $753,100 | 6 | 10% |
| Norway House | $730,600 | 6 | 7% |
| Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church | $398,600 | 6 | n/a |
| Southern Valley Alliance | $233,600 | 6 | 9% |
| Northern Star Council | $225,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Allina Health Foundation | $175,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Attach | $145,500 | 6 | 6% |
| Tanzania Health Partnership | $135,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Mitchell Hamline School of Law | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bakken Family Wrc Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bakken Family Wrc Foundation
- How much does Bakken Family Wrc Foundation give?
- Bakken Family Wrc Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bakken Family Wrc Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Religion (22%), Crime & Legal (7%).
- Who are Bakken Family Wrc Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pavek Museum ($1.4M), The Bakken ($753k), Norway House ($731k).
- Does Bakken Family Wrc Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bakken Family Wrc Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bakken Family Wrc Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation.
- Where is Bakken Family Wrc Foundation based?
- Bakken Family Wrc Foundation is based in MN.
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