Minnesota · Private foundation
Elmar Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,474,952
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Elmar Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 21 | $3.3M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $943k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $889k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $407k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $104k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $26k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $1.7M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $82k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herzl Camp Foundation | $2,130,775 | 6 | 50% |
| Prager University Foundation | $287,500 | 7 | 0% |
| American Friends of Libi Inc | $240,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Chabad of Coronado | $204,300 | 4 | 1% |
| Northside Achievement Zone | $187,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Agamim Classical Academy | $120,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Friends of Arava the Institute Ltd | $87,500 | 6 | 1% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $75,180 | 4 | 0% |
| Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mission Animal Hospital | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Elmar Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 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 · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Rum Fund · Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation · Mark and Lisa Ratner Family Foundation Inc · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation · Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family Foundation · Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation · Beryl and Florence Miller Family Foundation · The Lynn and Gloria Johnson Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Elmar Family Foundation
- How much does Elmar Family Foundation give?
- Elmar Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $3,524,132 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Elmar Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (46%), Health (14%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Elmar Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Herzl Camp Foundation ($2.1M), Prager University Foundation ($288k), American Friends of Libi Inc ($240k).
- Does Elmar Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elmar Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elmar Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is Elmar Family Foundation based?
- Elmar Family Foundation is based in MN.
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