Minnesota · Private foundation
Better Way Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2024
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 41
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $68M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Better Way Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $2.5M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $2.0M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $1.7M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.9M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $2.2M | 54% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keres Children's Learning Center | $677,250 | 5 | 15% |
| Thunder Valley Community Development Cor | $632,250 | 5 | 3% |
| Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated | $557,250 | 6 | 17% |
| Hearts Gathered | $355,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee | $347,500 | 4 | 99% |
| St Catherine University | $342,879 | 2 | 0% |
| Naca-Inspired Schools Network | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Oceti Sakowin Community Academy | $250,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Little Earth Residents Association Inc | $234,475 | 2 | 6% |
| Red Cloud Indian School | $215,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Better Way Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: First Nations Development Institute · Northwest Area Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Ndn Collective Inc · Novo Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Opus Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Vadon Foundation
How this is measured
About Better Way Foundation
- How much does Better Way Foundation give?
- Better Way Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $2,695,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Better Way Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Community Improvement (10%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
- Who are Better Way Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Keres Children's Learning Center ($677k), Thunder Valley Community Development Cor ($632k), Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated ($557k).
- Does Better Way Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Better Way 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 Better Way Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Nations Development Institute, Northwest Area Foundation, Common Counsel Foundation.
- Where is Better Way Foundation based?
- Better Way Foundation is based in MN.
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