Minnesota · Private foundation
Cross Works Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $28,750
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 31
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $64M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Cross Works Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $4.1M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $3.3M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $3.2M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great River Childrens Museum | $2,000,000 | 3 | 34% |
| Hope Academy Inc | $1,498,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud | $1,100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Holy Family School | $700,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Monicas Montessori Inc | $500,001 | 3 | 85% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Thomas More Catholic Newman Center Parish of Mankato Minnesota | $420,000 | 4 | n/a |
| St Cloud Area Family YMCA | $400,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Inc | $350,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Erath County Humane Society | $250,000 | 2 | 34% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cross Works Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 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: Communitygiving · Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Morgan Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · United Way of Central Minnesota · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust
How this is measured
About Cross Works Foundation
- How much does Cross Works Foundation give?
- Cross Works Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $4,081,134 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Cross Works Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Religion (18%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Cross Works Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Great River Childrens Museum ($2.0M), Hope Academy Inc ($1.5M), Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud ($1.1M).
- Does Cross Works Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cross Works 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 Cross Works Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communitygiving, Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc, The US Charitable Gift Trust.
- Where is Cross Works Foundation based?
- Cross Works Foundation is based in MN.
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