How much does Community Charities of Minnesota give?

Community Charities of Minnesota reported 37 grants totaling $477,583 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Community Charities of Minnesota fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (23%), Youth Development (14%), Public Benefit (13%).

Who are Community Charities of Minnesota's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota American Legion Foundation ($318k), Smart Bowling Scholarship Funding Corporation ($250k), Park Nicollet Foundation ($120k).

Does Community Charities of Minnesota fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community Charities of Minnesota?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Russell T Lund Charitable Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

Where is Community Charities of Minnesota based?

Community Charities of Minnesota is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Public charity

Community Charities of Minnesota

To provide benefits to youth, disabled persons, and other charitable organizations with funds from our fundraising activities.

$478k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 37
Grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 56%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $40,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 16; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $824k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Community Charities of Minnesota funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePublic BenefitRecreation & SportsHealthEducationHuman ServicesOther

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	33	$442k	67%
FY2024	16	$287k	56%
FY2023	6	$100k	33%
FY2022	10	$205k	50%
FY2021	13	$184k	62%
FY2020	9	$128k	44%
FY2019	8	$113k	25%
FY2018	4	$63k	50%

99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$477kYouth Development$290kPublic Benefit$263kHuman Services$230kPhilanthropy$206kEducation$137kPublic Safety & Disaster$132kHealth$120kOther$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 American Legion Foundation	$318,279	8	15%
Smart Bowling Scholarship Funding Corporation	$249,783	9	0%
Park Nicollet Foundation	$120,000	8	1%
St Louis Park Emergency Program Inc	$113,000	6	1%
Bowling Proprietors Asso of Minn	$61,679	2	10%
Greater Mankato Rotary Foundation	$47,250	2	n/a
Fame Awards	$39,099	3	n/a
Park Tavern	$39,013	1	n/a
Independent School District 283	$37,000	3	n/a
Slp Nest	$30,000	2	20%

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All grantees of Community Charities of Minnesota by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota American Legion Foundation	$318,279	8	15%
Smart Bowling Scholarship Funding Corporation	$249,783	9	0%
Park Nicollet Foundation	$120,000	8	1%
St Louis Park Emergency Program Inc	$113,000	6	1%
Bowling Proprietors Asso of Minn	$61,679	2	10%
Greater Mankato Rotary Foundation	$47,250	2	n/a
Fame Awards	$39,099	3	n/a
Park Tavern	$39,013	1	n/a
Independent School District 283	$37,000	3	n/a
Slp Nest	$30,000	2	20%
Delano Area Scholarship Association	$27,000	3	18%
Marcell Snowdrifters Snowmobile Club	$25,000	3	16%
St Louis Park Crime Prevention	$24,500	3	n/a
Legionville School Safety Patrol Training Center Inc	$23,000	2	5%
Heroes Helping Heroes Heroes Helping Heroes	$21,549	1	11%
Step Inc	$21,000	1	n/a
Future for Minnesota Bowling	$21,000	1	n/a
Parktacular Incorporated	$18,500	3	66%
Wilderness Wheelers	$18,000	1	7%
Bigfork High School	$17,250	1	n/a
St Louis Park Friends of the Arts	$16,000	2	7%
Highland Friendship Club	$12,700	1	4%
Buffalo Rodeo Association	$12,000	1	n/a
Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc	$11,150	1	0%
New York Mills Education Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
American Legion Endowment Fund Corporation	$10,000	1	1%
Minnesota Patriot Guard	$10,000	1	68%
Northwoods Saddle Club Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Hallie Q Brown Community Center Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Choice Unlimited	$10,000	1	0%
St Paul's Church	$9,000	1	n/a
Mayo Clinic	$8,557	1	n/a
Saluting Branches	$7,570	1	10%
Hammer Residences Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Minnesota Military Family Foundation	$7,500	1	1%
St Louis Park Touchdown Club	$7,500	1	n/a
Leisure Education for Exceptional People Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
Magnus Veterans Foundation	$7,000	1	n/a
Northeast Minneapolis Arts Assoc	$7,000	1	2%
Wadena County Humane Society	$7,000	1	n/a
Mankato Community Education and Rec	$6,300	1	n/a
Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch Inc	$6,000	1	0%
The Mission Project	$6,000	1	9%
Isd #318	$6,000	1	n/a
Heritage Christian Academy	$5,600	1	0%
Over the Hill Nightriders	$5,500	1	n/a
Minnesota Emergency Care Association Inc	$5,500	1	1%
Delano Athletic Booster Club Inc	$5,500	1	2%
Stma Trap Team Booster Club	$5,200	1	n/a
Project Delta	$5,000	1	n/a
Buffalo Baseball Association of Buffalo Inc	$5,000	1	4%
Childhood Cancer Community	$5,000	1	4%
Time on the Water	$5,000	1	5%
Hammer Residences Fund Inc	$5,000	1	n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.

Community Charities of Minnesota supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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 31.

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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.

Russell T Lund Charitable TrustMN17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Russell T Lund Charitable Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · 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 Community Charities of Minnesota

How much does Community Charities of Minnesota give?: Community Charities of Minnesota reported 37 grants totaling $477,583 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Community Charities of Minnesota fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (23%), Youth Development (14%), Public Benefit (13%).
Who are Community Charities of Minnesota's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota American Legion Foundation ($318k), Smart Bowling Scholarship Funding Corporation ($250k), Park Nicollet Foundation ($120k).
Does Community Charities of Minnesota fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Charities of Minnesota?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Russell T Lund Charitable Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Community Charities of Minnesota based?: Community Charities of Minnesota is based in MN.