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Bame Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
199
Grants FY2025
122
Organizations funded FY2024
37%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,560
Largest grant, FY2025
$278,949
Organizations funded a year
102 to 133
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
23
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, 37% of the organizations Bame Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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
FY2025still arriving126$1.3M50%
FY2024122$1.3M37%
FY2023111$609k43%
FY2022133$728k51%
FY2021103$785k35%
FY2020110$789k32%
FY2019105$522k37%
FY2018102$708k55%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.9MHuman Services$837kYouth Development$739kReligion$480kFood & Nutrition$411kEnvironment$386kEducation$374kPhilanthropy$353kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Cancer Research Fund$1,207,637911%
Crescent Cove$520,520810%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$388,17080%
Breakaway Inc$282,580913%
Engage Your Destiny$197,57453%
Autism Society of Mn$189,95492%
Angel Foundation$184,36091%
Riverside Church$181,2504n/a
Foundation for Essential Needs$141,300632%
Matter$126,55080%
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All grantees of Bame Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Cancer Research Fund$1,207,637911%
Crescent Cove$520,520810%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$388,17080%
Breakaway Inc$282,580913%
Engage Your Destiny$197,57453%
Autism Society of Mn$189,95492%
Angel Foundation$184,36091%
Riverside Church$181,2504n/a
Foundation for Essential Needs$141,300632%
Matter$126,55080%
Fishing For Life$116,325510%
Youth Frontiers Inc$107,80051%
Mn-Fish Sportfishing Foundation$80,478272%
Children's Surgery International$74,24093%
Blood Cancer United Inc$74,08580%
Stma Breakfast Club$70,10018%
Operation Gratitude Inc$68,66020%
Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc$65,00050%
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities$58,50550%
Paul's Pals Inc$49,520311%
True Friends$47,50050%
Wilderness Inquiry Inc$46,94270%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$44,70280%
The Banyan Foundation$44,57941%
Better Tomorrow Foundation$44,0261n/a
Ridgeview Foundation$43,72751%
Como Friends$42,89090%
Camp Hertko Hollow Inc$41,50017%
Spark Youth$33,37071%
Annandale Food Shelf$32,800210%
Mansfield Cares Inc$30,80063%
Crime Prevention Fund$30,400444%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$30,10020%
Mpma Education Foundation$29,902335%
Kids in Need Foundation$29,02520%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$29,00040%
Movember Foundation$26,26250%
Orono Ice Arena Inc$22,00013%
Venture$21,00940%
Treehouse Inc$20,73941%
Scenic Montana Trails$20,000112%
Inver Hills Community College Foundation$20,00052%
Western Communities Action Network Inc$17,67731%
Courage Kenny Foundation$17,65010%
The Reel Hope Project$16,85012%
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc$15,60040%
High School for Recording Arts$15,13010%
Dinomights$15,10072%
Project Success$14,60020%
Teen Challenge of the Midlands Inc$14,50020%
Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc$14,33070%
Hometown Heroes Inc$13,50031%
Minnesota Land Trust$12,50030%
Triple H Miniature Horse Rescue$11,80091%
Awaken INC$11,69020%
Midwest Animal Rescue and Services$11,39080%
The Lift Garage$11,32521%
Project Echelon Ltd$11,00022%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Georgia Inc$11,00020%
Bethel University$10,00010%
Humor to Fight the Tumor Foundation$10,00022%
Michigan State University$10,0002n/a
Folds of Honor Foundation$10,00010%
Her Alliance$9,6701n/a
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$9,64020%
Second Harvest Heartland$9,60030%
Cookies on Deployment Rvoc Tr$9,4003n/a
Flourish Placemaking Collective$9,20041%
Project Got Your Back$9,06034%
Rachel Foundation$9,00042%
Kortnis Path$8,7005n/a
Central Iowa Shelter & Services$8,00050%
Joppa$7,60030%
Resolute$7,60031%
Breakthrough Twin Cities$7,52011%
Achieve Services Inc$7,50020%
Orono Foundation for Education$7,50012%
HOPE 4 Youth$7,19070%
Global Action$7,16021%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$6,81020%
Camp Fire Minnesota$6,00010%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc$6,00010%
Spare Key$5,69521%
Fairview Health Services$5,50010%
Cross (Christians Reaching Out in Social Services)$5,08060%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa$5,05020%
Questscope Ltd$5,02811%
Jack's Basket$5,00010%
Beads of Courage Inc Dba Center for Arts in Nursing$5,00010%
Minnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund$5,00010%
Swan River Montessori Charter School$5,00010%
Central Michigan University$5,0001n/a
Sacred Journey Academy$5,00011%
Minnesota Fishing Museum & Hall of Fame$5,00022%
Eagle Brook Church$5,0001n/a
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$4,85050%
Tracy Area Animal Rescue$4,65042%
Community Emergency Assistance Programs Inc$4,50010%
Flatline Productions$4,5001n/a
The Shooting Star Foundation Inc$4,50013%
Mental Health America Inc$4,41010%
Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota Inc$4,32080%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mn$4,00630%
Hunger Related Events$4,00011%
Folds of Honor Foundation Minnesota Inc$4,00011%
Camp Shamineau of the Evangelical Free Church of America$3,9003n/a
Becker Youth Association$3,89060%
The Hendrickson Foundation Inc$3,82711%
3g Food Pantry$3,74039%
Jared Allens Homes for Wounded Warriors$3,64020%
Firefighters for Healing$3,64030%
Special Olympics Minnesota Inc$3,50020%
Washburn Center for Children$3,40030%
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc$3,37520%
Food Group Minnesota Inc The$3,35030%
Dare to Care Foundation Inc$3,156154%
Nami Minnesota$3,10020%
Shot for Hope Inc$3,04024%
Stma Youth Hockey Association Inc$3,00850%
Team Foundation$3,00011%
Northwest Louisiana Food Bank$3,00020%
Corrie's House$3,00011%
Monticello Soccer Club$3,00012%
Sojourner Foundation$3,00020%
Funky Minds$3,0001n/a
Branch Lutheran Schools of Haiti Inc$2,86040%
Wild and Free Wildlife Rehab Program$2,86031%
Isd 882 Monticello Public Schools$2,8503n/a
Rise Against Hunger Inc$2,60020%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$2,60010%
Maple Grove Youth Football Association$2,56041%
Park Nicollet Foundation$2,54010%
Magnus Veterans Foundation$2,50010%
Shreveport Green$2,50010%
Minnesota Diversified Industries Inc$2,50010%
Hugo Good Neighbors Food Shelf$2,50011%
Westonka Walleye Program$2,5001n/a
United Heroes League$2,50010%
A Night to Remember Prom$2,5001n/a
Hope International$2,5001n/a
Acres for Life - Therapy & Wellness Center$2,5001n/a
Milwaukee Baseball Club Inc$2,5001n/a
Living Word Bible Camp$2,50010%
Marannook Inc$2,50010%
Forethecure$2,50012%
Open Arms of Minnesota$2,50010%
Snocross Mobile Medical Team Inc$2,50012%
Confidence Learning Center Inc$2,50010%
Wisconsin Automotive and Truck Education Association Inc$2,40020%
No Stomach for Cancer Inc$2,20040%
The Bail Project Inc$2,08010%
Hudson Fire Company No 1 Inc$2,04024%
Sheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC$2,00010%
St Matthews House Inc$2,00020%
Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc$2,00010%
Winona Family YMCA Inc$2,00010%
La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc$2,0001n/a
Hugo Yellow Ribbon Network$2,00011%
Edina Baseball Association$2,00010%
In Sports Foundation$2,0001n/a
Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion School Parent Teacher Organization$1,88071%
Rogers-Otsego Youth Baseball Association Inc$1,76041%
Boys & Girls Club of Portage$1,70010%
Special Reach Inc$1,5001n/a
Guiding Star Wakota$1,50010%
Never Surrender Inc$1,5001n/a
Teamwomenmn$1,50010%
Autism Speaks Inc$1,50010%
Familymeans$1,40020%
Presbyterian Homes and Services$1,30010%
South East Metro Sharks Swim Club$1,30010%
Warrior Dog Rescue$1,28020%
American Heart Association Inc$1,24040%
Second Mile Haiti$1,22020%
Honor Flight Inc$1,20010%
Minnesota Council on Foundations$1,15010%
Wisconsin Humane Society$1,14030%
Girl Scouts - Dakota Horizons$1,12410%
North Wright County River Hawks Booster Club$1,10021%
Love Conquers Violence$1,1002n/a
Wisconsin Lions Foundation Inc$1,04010%
Gofundmeorg$1,02510%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Minnesota$1,02020%
Elmbrook Baseball Association Inc$1,0001n/a
Best Christmas Ever Inc$1,00010%
Middle Georgia Community Food Bank$1,00020%
Heartland Tire Foundation$1,0001n/a
Shayla Bee Fund Inc$1,00011%
Concerns of Police Survivors$1,0001n/a
Lakes Area Heroes$1,00012%
Carly May Foundation$1,00011%
Hallie Q Brown Community Center Inc$1,00010%
People Responding in Social Ministry$99110%
Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation$96010%
Africa Jam$86431%
Brighter Days Family Grief Center$85010%
Land Stewardship Project$82020%
Ireland's Hope$78011%
Anna Marie's Alliance$76010%
YMCA of Northwest Louisiana$75010%
Dawn of Hope Inc$75010%
Meals From the Heartland Inc$75010%
Minnesota Safety Council Inc$75010%
Celiac Disease Foundation$69040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$68010%
United Cerebral Palsy Inc$68010%
Direct Relief$66510%
Minnesota Boxer Rescue$62030%
Minute Men Amateur Athletics Foundation$6001n/a
Rivers of Hope$60010%
International Spanish Language Academy$53030%
Prolife Across America$5201n/a
Walker's Point Youth and Family Center Inc$52010%
Institute for Basic and Applied Research in Surgery Inc$50011%
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$5001n/a
Best Buddies International Inc$5001n/a
The Ranch - Teammates for Life Inc$50010%
Schimmy Scramble Inc$5001n/a
Ramsey County Sheriffs Foundation$5001n/a
Minnesota Fallen Firefighters Memorial Association$5001n/a
Princeton Football Booster Club Inc$5001n/a
Mtd Employee Support Foundation$50010%
Elk River Youth Baseball$50010%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$46520%
Ruff Start Rescue Inc$46030%
Grace Place Collaborative Inc$4351n/a
M State Foundation and Alumni$4301n/a
The Bond Between$40030%
Animal Humane Society$40030%
Beckys Troop Care Packages$4004n/a
Friends of Autism Inc$40010%
American Diabetes Association$35420%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$35020%
Urban Ecology Center Inc$32010%
Firefly Sisterhood$30010%
National Child Safety Council$30010%
Loretto Community Athletic Association$3001n/a
Minnesota Kitty Cat Racers Association$3001n/a
Children's Health Care Foundation$29030%
Rogers Youth Hockey Association$26010%
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education$26010%
Jl Griffis Twin Cities School Tcs$2601n/a
The American Legion$2601n/a
Chad Smith Ride for Life$25010%
Chainbreaker$2501n/a
St John the Baptist Catholic Parish$2501n/a
American Brain Tumor Association$24010%
Emerge Mothers Academy$2401n/a
Nashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society$2001n/a
The Outdoor Adventure Foundation Inc$2001n/a
Fox Valley Literacy Council Inc$2001n/a
Jordan Area Food Shelf$20020%
Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc$20020%
Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota$2001n/a
Hunger Task Force Inc$12020%
Give Kids the World Inc$11010%
Keystone Community Services$10410%
Mission Pre-Born Inc$10010%
Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation Inc$10010%
Pinky Swear Foundation$10010%
Providence House Inc$10010%
Evidence Action$10010%
Joined for Good Inc Dba Brackets for Good$1001n/a
Annandale Independent School District 876$1001n/a
Believet Canine Service Partners Inc$10010%
Rainforest Foundation Inc$10010%
Youth Service Bureau Inc$1001n/a
Karen Wyckoff Rein in Sarcoma$1001n/a
Somerset Youth Hockey Association$10010%
Lad Lake Inc$10010%
Brighter Days Ministry Inc$10010%
Food Bank of Iowa$10010%
The Good Food Institute Inc$1001n/a
Wigs For Kids Inc$10010%
Agate Housing & Services Inc$10010%
National Kidney Foundation Inc$10010%
Can Do Canines$10010%
Wildflyer Coffee$1001n/a
Curepsp Inc$10010%
Edina Athletic Boosters$10010%
Saving Shepherds of MN$10010%
Colorectal Cancer Alliance$10010%
Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (Usa)$10010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$10010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1001n/a
CaringBridge$10010%
Rocky Mountain Lutheran High School$1001n/a
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$10010%
Givedirectly Inc$10010%
Lower Twin Lake Association$1001n/a
Motorcycle Dial a Ride Inc$1001n/a
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$10010%
Abcd Inc$10010%
Samaritan's Purse$10010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities$10010%
Metavivor Research and Support Inc$10010%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 172 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bame Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Cancer Research Fund: $1,207,637 over 9y, 11% of budgetCrescent Cove: $520,520 over 8y, 10% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $388,170 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBreakaway Inc: $282,580 over 9y, 13% of budgetEngage Your Destiny: $197,574 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetAutism Society of Mn: $189,954 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetAngel Foundation: $184,360 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetFoundation for Essential Needs: $141,300 over 6y, 32% of budgetMatter: $126,550 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFishing For Life: $116,325 over 5y, 10% of budgetYouth Frontiers Inc: $107,800 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMn-Fish Sportfishing Foundation: $80,478 over 2y, 72% of budgetChildren's Surgery International: $74,240 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $74,085 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStma Breakfast Club: $70,100 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetOperation Gratitude Inc: $68,660 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities: $58,505 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPaul's Pals Inc: $49,520 over 3y, 11% of budgetTrue Friends: $47,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWilderness Inquiry Inc: $46,942 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $44,702 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $44,579 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRidgeview Foundation: $43,727 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetComo Friends: $42,890 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Hertko Hollow Inc: $41,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSpark Youth: $33,370 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAnnandale Food Shelf: $32,800 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetMansfield Cares Inc: $30,800 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetCrime Prevention Fund: $30,400 over 4y, 44% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $30,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMpma Education Foundation: $29,902 over 3y, 35% of budgetKids in Need Foundation: $29,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMovember Foundation: $26,262 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOrono Ice Arena Inc: $22,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVenture: $21,009 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTreehouse Inc: $20,739 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetScenic Montana Trails: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetInver Hills Community College Foundation: $20,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetWestern Communities Action Network Inc: $17,677 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCourage Kenny Foundation: $17,650 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Reel Hope Project: $16,850 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $15,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHigh School for Recording Arts: $15,130 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDinomights: $15,100 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetProject Success: $14,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeen Challenge of the Midlands Inc: $14,500 over 2y, 0.4% 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 200.

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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.

Xcel Energy FoundationMN51.3× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Graco Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The K Foundation · Tradition Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation

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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About Bame Foundation

How much does Bame Foundation give?
Bame Foundation reported 199 grants totaling $1,387,264 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 102 and 133 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bame Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Human Services (13%), Youth Development (11%).
Who are Bame Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children's Cancer Research Fund ($1.2M), Crescent Cove ($521k), Ducks Unlimited Inc ($388k).
Does Bame Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bame Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bame Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Graco Foundation.
Where is Bame Foundation based?
Bame Foundation is based in MN.

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 479 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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