· Private foundation
Elizabeth Callender King Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WINONA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $17,500 |
| HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL | $8,500 |
| MN MARINE ART MUSEUM | $5,265 |
| READY SET SCHOOL | $5,200 |
| PROJECT FINE | $5,140 |
| WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WINONA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $4,750 |
| GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $4,500 |
| IMPACT CENTER | $3,750 |
| INTERNATIONAL OWL CENTER | $3,525 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WVWINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +48%
- MMMINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +130%
- FRFROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL7× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- BCBuffalo County Land & Trails Trust Incone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -95%
- WOWINONA OUTDOOR COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -59%
- WAWINONA AREA COMMUNITY EDUCATIONone grant, 2018 · $7k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote and support the arts in willmar and surrounding communities through coordination, communication and collaboration and promotion.
The theatre's mission is to provide affordable, quality performing arts to west central minnesota.
Our mission is to build a vibrant community fueled by the arts. We enrich lives by connecting, celebrating, inspiring, and leading through shared art experiences. Our vision is a community alive with creativity.
Live well winona has a mission to engage the community in a culture of wellness that is distinctively noticeable and results in people that live longer, better lives, and are measurably healthier.
Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.
Increase awareness of the fine arts through films
To enhance knowledge awareness and participation in the visual arts in the community
Advocating and promoting arts and culture as it relates to community and economic development, educating local artists/groups, and connecting the community to more arts and culture opportunities.
To gather, engage, and educate people to celebrate and preserve the history, arts, sciences, and rich diversity of our region.
To enrich lives by celebrating art, nourish imagination by inspiring creativity, and build understanding by connecting people.
Our mission is to relieve the suffering of and prevent cruelty to animals, and to increase humane education in the winona area.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MID WEST MUSIC FEST ↗
- Who funds WINONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WINONA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL OWL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINONA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Winona Civic Music Inc ↗
- Who funds HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Buffalo County Land & Trails Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds WINONA OUTDOOR COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Engage Winona ↗
- Who funds Theatre du Mississippi ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FINE ↗
- Who funds Winona Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds EAGLEWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Art of the Rural ↗
- Who funds HOME AND COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC ↗
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: Winona Community Foundation · Winona Foundation The · Slaggie Family Foundation · Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc · Dare Lamberton White & William F White Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Gostomski Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Rukavina Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elizabeth Callender King Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Callender King Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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