How much does Baxter Family Foundation give?

Baxter Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $18,017 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 46 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Baxter Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (21%), Environment (15%), Housing & Shelter (14%).

Who are Baxter Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Aeon ($10k), Landmark Conservancy Inc ($7k), Commonbond Communities ($6k).

Does Baxter Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Baxter Family 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 Baxter Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is Baxter Family Foundation based?

Baxter Family Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Baxter Family 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.

$18k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2025: 24
Organizations funded FY2024: 25%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $800
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,500
Organizations funded a year: 24 to 46; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $251k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Baxter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionArts & CultureHealthOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	26	$18k	8%
FY2024	24	$16k	25%
FY2023	24	$17k	4%
FY2022	46	$30k	15%
FY2021	46	$32k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$24kEnvironment$17kHousing & Shelter$16kReligion$12kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$7kPublic Benefit$6kYouth Development$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Aeon	$10,000	5	0%
Landmark Conservancy Inc	$7,000	5	0%
Commonbond Communities	$5,500	5	0%
Salvation Army	$5,000	5	n/a
Food Group Minnesota Inc The	$4,000	5	0%
Dunn County Historical Society	$4,000	5	1%
Second Harvest Northland	$2,000	2	0%
Second Harvest Heartland	$2,000	2	0%
Union Gospel Mission Inc	$1,600	5	0%
Wayzata Community Church	$1,550	2	n/a

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All grantees of Baxter Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Aeon	$10,000	5	0%
Landmark Conservancy Inc	$7,000	5	0%
Commonbond Communities	$5,500	5	0%
Salvation Army	$5,000	5	n/a
Food Group Minnesota Inc The	$4,000	5	0%
Dunn County Historical Society	$4,000	5	1%
Second Harvest Northland	$2,000	2	0%
Second Harvest Heartland	$2,000	2	0%
Union Gospel Mission Inc	$1,600	5	0%
Wayzata Community Church	$1,550	2	n/a
The Marine Mammal Center	$1,500	5	0%
Children's Cancer Research Fund	$1,500	2	0%
Animal Humane Society	$1,300	5	0%
The Museum of Russian Art	$1,240	4	0%
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners	$1,100	1	0%
Matter	$1,000	1	0%
Lake Minnetonka Historical Society	$1,000	2	0%
Lake Superior Railroad Musuem	$950	4	0%
Presbyterian Homes Foundation	$800	1	0%
Park Nicollet Foundation	$500	1	0%
International Crane Foundation Inc	$400	2	0%
Stanford Health Care	$400	2	0%
Coastside Land Trust	$400	2	0%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$300	2	0%
Ducks Unlimited Inc	$200	2	0%
Judicial Watch Inc	$200	2	0%
Land Stewardship Project	$200	2	0%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts	$180	3	0%
Wayzata Symphony Orchestra	$100	1	0%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc	$75	1	0%
Wabasha County Historical Society	$50	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Baxter Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 28.

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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 FoundationMN18.3× affinity7 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 Minneapolis Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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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About Baxter Family Foundation

How much does Baxter Family Foundation give?: Baxter Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $18,017 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 46 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Baxter Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (21%), Environment (15%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
Who are Baxter Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Aeon ($10k), Landmark Conservancy Inc ($7k), Commonbond Communities ($6k).
Does Baxter Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Baxter Family 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 Baxter Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Baxter Family Foundation based?: Baxter Family Foundation is based in MN.