Minnesota · Private foundation
David & Janis Larson 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.
- $8.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,301,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $140M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations David & Janis Larson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 41 | $8.1M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $7.7M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $9.0M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $7.2M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $7.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $8,485,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Pinky Swear Foundation | $7,580,000 | 5 | 42% |
| Voyageur Outward Bound School | $4,640,000 | 5 | 25% |
| The Sanneh Foundation | $1,451,500 | 2 | 14% |
| Pope County Historical Society | $1,390,000 | 5 | 66% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the North | $1,325,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $1,250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Redwood Area Library Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aahs DECA Foundation | $500,000 | 3 | 77% |
| Guthrie Theater Foundation | $425,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
David & Janis Larson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About David & Janis Larson Foundation
- How much does David & Janis Larson Foundation give?
- David & Janis Larson Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $8,390,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does David & Janis Larson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (21%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are David & Janis Larson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Kansas University Endowment Association ($8.5M), Pinky Swear Foundation ($7.6M), Voyageur Outward Bound School ($4.6M).
- Does David & Janis Larson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David & Janis Larson 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 David & Janis Larson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
- Where is David & Janis Larson Foundation based?
- David & Janis Larson Foundation is based in MN.
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