Minnesota · Private foundation
Dovenberg Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $993k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Dovenberg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 13 | $39k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $46k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $36k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $34k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $48k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $44k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $37k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Heartland | $55,900 | 7 | 0% |
| Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners | $53,023 | 6 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $50,454 | 7 | 0% |
| Every Meal | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lake Minnetonka Garden Club | $9,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Nourish Bridgeport Inc | $8,450 | 2 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $7,202 | 2 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dovenberg Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The John J and Maryanne T Mauriel Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Dovenberg Family Foundation
- How much does Dovenberg Family Foundation give?
- Dovenberg Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $39,295 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Dovenberg Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (27%), Human Services (26%), Philanthropy (17%).
- Who are Dovenberg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Second Harvest Heartland ($56k), Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners ($53k), Marine Toys for Tots Foundation ($50k).
- Does Dovenberg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dovenberg Family 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 Dovenberg Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Dovenberg Family Foundation based?
- Dovenberg Family Foundation is based in MN.
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