How much does Caliber Foundation give?

Caliber Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $37,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Caliber Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Philanthropy (13%), Education (13%).

Who are Caliber Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota Independence College and Community ($76k), American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota ($30k), Opportunity Partners ($24k).

Does Caliber Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Caliber Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Caliber Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

Where is Caliber Foundation based?

Caliber Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Caliber Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Grants FY2025: 14
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $2,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $6,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 23; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $304k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Caliber Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	14	$38k	36%
FY2024	14	$39k	7%
FY2023	15	$41k	33%
FY2022	16	$43k	44%
FY2021	14	$40k	57%
FY2020	23	$65k	30%
FY2019	18	$63k	28%
FY2018	15	$40k	53%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$84kPhilanthropy$63kEducation$61kHuman Services$57kArts & Culture$50kEnvironment$37kHousing & Shelter$30kCivil Rights$30kOther$0

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
Minnesota Independence College and Community	$76,100	8	1%
American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota	$30,000	6	1%
Opportunity Partners	$24,000	4	0%
Wilderness Inquiry Inc	$23,000	5	0%
Minnesota Historical Society	$21,000	5	0%
Wallin Education Partners	$18,750	3	0%
Family Pathways	$15,000	5	0%
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners	$14,000	3	0%
Isanti County Historical Society	$12,000	5	6%
Pacer Center Inc	$11,500	4	0%

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All grantees of Caliber Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota Independence College and Community	$76,100	8	1%
American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota	$30,000	6	1%
Opportunity Partners	$24,000	4	0%
Wilderness Inquiry Inc	$23,000	5	0%
Minnesota Historical Society	$21,000	5	0%
Wallin Education Partners	$18,750	3	0%
Family Pathways	$15,000	5	0%
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners	$14,000	3	0%
Isanti County Historical Society	$12,000	5	6%
Pacer Center Inc	$11,500	4	0%
Every Meal	$11,500	3	0%
Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation	$9,000	3	0%
Aeon	$9,000	5	0%
Project for Pride in Living Inc	$8,500	4	0%
Sibling Connections Inc	$7,500	3	1%
The Ferguson Library	$7,500	3	0%
Person to Person Inc	$7,500	3	0%
Minnehaha Academy	$7,000	2	0%
Pacific House Inc	$5,000	2	0%
Twin Cities Public Television Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Minnesota State Fair Foundation	$5,000	5	0%
Minnesota Computers for Schools	$3,000	1	0%
Connections to Independence	$3,000	1	0%
International Relief Teams	$2,500	1	0%
Greenwich Spanish School Corporation the Greenwich Spanish School Gss	$2,500	1	1%
Pbs Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Camp to Belong	$2,500	1	2%
Alpha Project for the Homeless	$2,500	1	0%
Page Education Foundation	$2,000	1	n/a
Project Diva	$2,000	1	1%
Success Academy	$2,000	1	0%
Second Harvest Heartland	$1,500	1	0%
Peacemaker Minnesota	$1,000	1	0%
Riverview School Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Books for Africa Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church	$1,000	1	n/a
Microgrants	$1,000	1	0%
Veterans for Peace Inc	$1,000	2	n/a
Salvation Army	$1,000	1	n/a
Helps International	$750	1	0%
American Diabetes Association	$200	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Caliber Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 37.

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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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN27.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hb Fuller Company Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide

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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About Caliber Foundation

How much does Caliber Foundation give?: Caliber Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $37,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Caliber Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Philanthropy (13%), Education (13%).
Who are Caliber Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota Independence College and Community ($76k), American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota ($30k), Opportunity Partners ($24k).
Does Caliber Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Caliber Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Caliber Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Caliber Foundation based?: Caliber Foundation is based in MN.