Minnesota · Private foundation
Charlson 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.
- $560k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Charlson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 19 | $560k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $385k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $330k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $302k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $580k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oasis for Youth | $180,000 | 6 | 3% |
| VEAP Inc | $170,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cornerstone | $140,000 | 4 | 20% |
| The Lift Garage | $135,217 | 6 | 2% |
| Vail Place | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc | $135,000 | 5 | 1% |
| HealthFinders Collaborative Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Washburn Center for Children | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| True Friends | $105,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ampersand Families | $93,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($658k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Charlson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mardag Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Wca Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation
How this is measured
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About Charlson Foundation
- How much does Charlson Foundation give?
- Charlson Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $560,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Charlson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Youth Development (14%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Charlson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Oasis for Youth ($180k), VEAP Inc ($170k), Cornerstone ($140k).
- Does Charlson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charlson 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 Charlson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation.
- Where is Charlson Foundation based?
- Charlson Foundation is based in MN.
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