Minnesota · Private foundation
Butzow 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.
- $380k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Butzow Family 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; $15k 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 | 22 | $380k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $343k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $316k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $393k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $344k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $340k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $247k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $348k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolder Options | $339,500 | 9 | 4% |
| Bridging Inc | $276,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Face It Foundation | $230,200 | 9 | 13% |
| Washburn Center for Children | $229,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mn Minnesotanorth Dakotasouth Dakota | $165,000 | 9 | 1% |
| True Friends | $155,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ridgeview Foundation | $140,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery | $116,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pinky Swear Foundation | $75,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Herb Brooks Foundation | $70,000 | 7 | 12% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($787k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Butzow Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fastbreak Foundation · Tradition Family Foundation · Minneapolis Jewish Federation
How this is measured
About Butzow Family Foundation
- How much does Butzow Family Foundation give?
- Butzow Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $380,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Butzow Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Philanthropy (11%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Butzow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bolder Options ($340k), Bridging Inc ($276k), Face It Foundation ($230k).
- Does Butzow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Butzow 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 Butzow Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Butzow Family Foundation based?
- Butzow Family Foundation is based in MN.
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