Does Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio 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 Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust, Otter Tail Power Company Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio

THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR EDUCATION BEYOND THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, INCLUDING TRAINING AND INTERNSHIPS, TO YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHOSEN CAREERS THAT WILL SERVE THE RURAL AREA. THE PURPOSE IS TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG PEOPLE TO LIVE AND WORK IN RURAL AREAS. Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations…

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 7
Grants FY2025: 6
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,211,893
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 10; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $280k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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	7	$1.3M	57%
FY2024	6	$65k	50%
FY2023	5	$51k	40%
FY2022	6	$44k	33%
FY2021	7	$51k	71%
FY2020	7	$38k	57%
FY2019	10	$19k	90%
FY2017	2	$17k	n/a

92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.2MArts & Culture$80kHealth$67kEducation$48kFood & Nutrition$41kCommunity Improvement$20kHuman Services$19kInternational$10kOther$0

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
Smedsrud Foundation Inc	$1,211,893	1	90%
Medical Debt Resolution Inc	$37,000	2	0%
Giving Voice Initiative	$30,000	2	2%
Macphail Center for Music	$22,000	4	0%
Sonoma County Grape Growers Foundation	$20,000	1	9%
Ex-Students' Association of Ut	$20,000	1	0%
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery	$10,000	2	0%
Redwood Empire Food Bank	$10,000	1	0%
Greater Fergus Falls Corp	$10,000	4	2%
Global Minnesota	$10,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Smedsrud Foundation Inc	$1,211,893	1	90%
Medical Debt Resolution Inc	$37,000	2	0%
Giving Voice Initiative	$30,000	2	2%
Macphail Center for Music	$22,000	4	0%
Sonoma County Grape Growers Foundation	$20,000	1	9%
Ex-Students' Association of Ut	$20,000	1	0%
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery	$10,000	2	0%
Redwood Empire Food Bank	$10,000	1	0%
Greater Fergus Falls Corp	$10,000	4	2%
Global Minnesota	$10,000	2	0%
Fergus Area College Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Second Harvest Heartland	$7,500	1	0%
Friends and Allies Project Corp	$7,500	1	7%
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Colon Cancer Coalition Inc	$4,500	2	0%
Restored Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Northern Lights Council of the Boy Scouts of America Inc	$300	1	0%
Salvation Army	$200	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.

Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 15.

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.

Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable TrustND13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio

How much does Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio give?: Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio reported 7 grants totaling $1,297,893 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (76%), Arts & Culture (5%), Health (4%).
Who are Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Smedsrud Foundation Inc ($1.2M), Medical Debt Resolution Inc ($37k), Giving Voice Initiative ($30k).
Does Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio 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 Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust, Otter Tail Power Company Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
Where is Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio based?: Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio is based in MN.