Minnesota · Private foundation
Donaldson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $205,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Donaldson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $407k 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 | 72 | $1.3M | 63% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $1.2M | 58% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.2M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $1.2M | 49% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $1.1M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $1,435,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mid-State Technical College | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| College Possible Inc | $175,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wallin Education Partners | $138,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pacer Center Inc | $131,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Dunwoody College of Technology | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Works | $120,000 | 5 | 2% |
| United Way of Portage County Inc | $112,543 | 4 | 1% |
| United Way of Clinton County Iowa | $109,482 | 4 | 9% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Donaldson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 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 · The Walser Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Hb Fuller Company Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Donaldson Foundation
- How much does Donaldson Foundation give?
- Donaldson Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $1,340,160 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Donaldson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Philanthropy (26%), Community Improvement (10%).
- Who are Donaldson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Greater Twin Cities United Way ($1.4M), Science Museum of Minnesota ($300k), Mid-State Technical College ($200k).
- Does Donaldson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donaldson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donaldson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The Walser Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Donaldson Foundation based?
- Donaldson Foundation is based in MN.
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