Minnesota · Public charity
Blaze Credit Union
BLAZE CREDIT UNION's purpose is to create better lives for our members. Our core value is to be thoughtfully compassionate for our members. Our core vision is to be minnesota's best for our members. Our core action is to give back to our members, minnesota-based organizations, and the communities we serve.
- $621k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 33
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $601k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $101,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Blaze Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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 | 31 | $554k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $286k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $130k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $52k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $342k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salvation Army | $273,602 | 5 | n/a |
| The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library | $101,900 | 3 | 1% |
| The Bond Between | $101,350 | 4 | 1% |
| Como Friends | $98,200 | 3 | 1% |
| Blaze Credit Union Foundation | $63,500 | 2 | 16% |
| Bfw Institute for Education and Research | $56,750 | 2 | 9% |
| Julie and Kirk Cousins Foundation | $51,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Ordway Center for the Performing Arts | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bestprep | $31,165 | 3 | 1% |
| Because I Said I Would | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 57 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Blaze Credit Union supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Graco Foundation
How this is measured
About Blaze Credit Union
- How much does Blaze Credit Union give?
- Blaze Credit Union reported 33 itemized grants totaling $601,457, out of $621,457 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Blaze Credit Union fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Health (19%), Animals (13%).
- Who are Blaze Credit Union's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Salvation Army ($274k), The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library ($102k), The Bond Between ($101k).
- Does Blaze Credit Union fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blaze Credit Union?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Blaze Credit Union based?
- Blaze Credit Union is based in MN.
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