Minnesota · Private foundation
Big T 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.
- $354k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $93k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Big T Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 12 | $354k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $498k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $291k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $603k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $230k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every Third Saturday Inc | $1,174,050 | 5 | 32% |
| The Healthstore Foundation | $250,000 | 2 | 100% |
| United Heroes League | $201,385 | 3 | 3% |
| Northfield Hockey Association Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 24% |
| The Ranch - Teammates for Life Inc | $53,396 | 4 | 12% |
| Eagles Healing Nest | $50,925 | 3 | 3% |
| The Grief Club of Minnesota | $32,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Legacy Fishing Retreat | $30,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Faribault Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wiggle Your Toes Incorporated | $20,000 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every Third Saturday Inc | $1,174,050 | 5 | 32% |
| The Healthstore Foundation | $250,000 | 2 | 100% |
| United Heroes League | $201,385 | 3 | 3% |
| Northfield Hockey Association Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 24% |
| The Ranch - Teammates for Life Inc | $53,396 | 4 | 12% |
| Eagles Healing Nest | $50,925 | 3 | 3% |
| The Grief Club of Minnesota | $32,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Legacy Fishing Retreat | $30,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Faribault Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wiggle Your Toes Incorporated | $20,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Hopekids Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Allina Health Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Emmaus Lutheran Church | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hope Church | $5,600 | 1 | n/a |
| SATB2 Gene Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Big T Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 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: Tradition Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Big T Foundation
- How much does Big T Foundation give?
- Big T Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $353,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Big T Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (59%), Health (20%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are Big T Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Every Third Saturday Inc ($1.2M), The Healthstore Foundation ($250k), United Heroes League ($201k).
- Does Big T Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Big T 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 Big T Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tradition Family Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Big T Foundation based?
- Big T Foundation is based in MN.
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