How much does Dv Foundation give?

Dv Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $402,166 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

What does Dv Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Civil Rights (19%), Education (15%).

Who are Dv Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota ($200k), Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc ($125k), Northern Star Council ($75k).

Does Dv 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 Dv Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Dv 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.

$402k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 11
Grants FY2024: 7
Organizations funded FY2023

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66% of Dv Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Dv Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $402k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $200,000
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $2.2M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$422kCivil Rights$200kEducation$160kCrime & Legal$85kYouth Development$75kRecreation & Sports$25kPublic Benefit$25kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota	$200,000	1	20%
Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc	$125,000	3	0%
Northern Star Council	$75,000	3	0%
Friends of Saint Paul College	$60,000	3	2%
Minnesota Justice Research Center	$55,000	2	4%
Breck School	$50,000	1	0%
American Law Institute	$30,000	1	0%
Clean Elections Minnesota	$25,000	1	14%
St Paul Urban Tennis Program	$15,000	1	1%
The Misty Copeland Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dv Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 9.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Dv Foundation

How much does Dv Foundation give?: Dv Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $402,166 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Dv Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Civil Rights (19%), Education (15%).
Who are Dv Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota ($200k), Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc ($125k), Northern Star Council ($75k).
Does Dv 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 Dv Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Dv Foundation based?: Dv Foundation is based in MN.