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Bud Rotter Family 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.

$34k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,800
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,550
Organizations funded a year
19 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$572k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Bud Rotter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving18$33k17%
FY202321$35k14%
FY202220$43k0%
FY202121$45k14%
FY202020$43k35%
FY201919$41k37%
FY201823$40k4%
FY201723$40kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$71kHealth$50kHuman Services$44kRecreation & Sports$30kEducation$17kReligion$16kFood & Nutrition$16kAnimals$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
MN
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$22,95080%
Pacific Northwest Ballet Association$20,50070%
Hennepin Theatre Trust$18,50080%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$16,95060%
Orono Foundation for Education$14,00080%
Every Meal$13,21580%
We Defy$10,65051%
Animal Humane Society$10,37180%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$9,6425n/a
The Sanneh Foundation$7,00050%
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Bud Rotter Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$22,95080%
Pacific Northwest Ballet Association$20,50070%
Hennepin Theatre Trust$18,50080%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$16,95060%
Orono Foundation for Education$14,00080%
Every Meal$13,21580%
We Defy$10,65051%
Animal Humane Society$10,37180%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$9,6425n/a
The Sanneh Foundation$7,00050%
Gesumaria Foundation Corp$5,3742n/a
Gigis Playhouse Inc$5,0002n/a
Metavivor Research and Support Inc$4,00020%
Youable Emotional Health Services$3,00020%
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners$2,32220%
College of Saint Benedict$2,00020%
The Bond Between$2,00020%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$2,00020%
Northside Boxing Club Inc$2,00010%
Bridges of Hope$2,00010%
Second Harvest Heartland$1,90010%
United Way of Central Minnesota$1,90010%
Pinky Swear Foundation$1,32530%
National Arbor Day Foundation$1,30010%
International Wolf Center$1,30010%
Open Arms of Minnesota$1,00010%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$1,00010%
Trevor Project Inc$1,00010%
The Humane Society for Seattleking County$71510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($134k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSharing and Caring Hands Inc: $22,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Northwest Ballet Association: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHennepin Theatre Trust: $18,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $16,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOrono Foundation for Education: $14,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEvery Meal: $13,215 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWe Defy: $10,650 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $10,371 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sanneh Foundation: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMetavivor Research and Support Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouable Emotional Health Services: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Outreach and Community Partners: $2,322 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of Saint Benedict: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bond Between: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthside Boxing Club Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBridges of Hope: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Central Minnesota: $1,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPinky Swear Foundation: $1,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Arbor Day Foundation: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Wolf Center: $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Arms of Minnesota: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humane Society for Seattleking County: $715 over 1y, 0.0% 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 26.

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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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL17× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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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How do I get to Bud Rotter Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bud Rotter Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bud Rotter Family Foundation

How much does Bud Rotter Family Foundation give?
Bud Rotter Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $34,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bud Rotter Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Health (16%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Bud Rotter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sharing and Caring Hands Inc ($23k), Pacific Northwest Ballet Association ($21k), Hennepin Theatre Trust ($19k).
Does Bud Rotter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bud Rotter 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 Bud Rotter Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Bud Rotter Family Foundation based?
Bud Rotter Family 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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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