Minnesota · Public charity
Foundation for Essential Needs
To reshape the minnesota hunger relief system so that all food shelf shoppers (clients) are provided with predictable, healthy food options in a dignified and welcoming environment.
- $84k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,966
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $37,404
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $604k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Foundation for Essential Needs funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 6 | $84k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $193k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $108k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $251k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clifton Larson Allen LLP | $112,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Semcac | $91,307 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Freeborn County Inc | $78,094 | 1 | 16% |
| Red Wing Area Food Shelf | $75,243 | 2 | 19% |
| 360 Communities | $37,404 | 1 | 0% |
| Basic Needs Inc of South Washington County | $12,431 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud | $10,966 | 1 | n/a |
| Cross Center of Benton County | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Walker Area Food Shelf Inc | $7,800 | 1 | 3% |
| Shiloh Temple Church | $7,397 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clifton Larson Allen LLP | $112,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Semcac | $91,307 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Freeborn County Inc | $78,094 | 1 | 16% |
| Red Wing Area Food Shelf | $75,243 | 2 | 19% |
| 360 Communities | $37,404 | 1 | 0% |
| Basic Needs Inc of South Washington County | $12,431 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud | $10,966 | 1 | n/a |
| Cross Center of Benton County | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Walker Area Food Shelf Inc | $7,800 | 1 | 3% |
| Shiloh Temple Church | $7,397 | 1 | n/a |
| Wells Area Food Shelf | $6,846 | 1 | n/a |
| Joyce Uptown Foodshelf | $6,169 | 1 | 1% |
| Hometown Resource Center | $6,115 | 1 | 5% |
| Lifegate Services | $5,856 | 1 | n/a |
| NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc | $5,462 | 2 | n/a |
| Area Food Shelf of New Richland | $5,308 | 1 | 9% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($191k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foundation for Essential Needs 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: Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Channel One Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless · Food Group Minnesota Inc The · Minnesota Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Foundation for Essential Needs
- How much does Foundation for Essential Needs give?
- Foundation for Essential Needs reported 6 grants totaling $84,063 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Foundation for Essential Needs fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (73%), Human Services (18%), Community Improvement (6%).
- Who are Foundation for Essential Needs's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Clifton Larson Allen LLP ($112k), Semcac ($91k), United Way of Freeborn County Inc ($78k).
- Does Foundation for Essential Needs fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Essential Needs?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hunger Solutions Minnesota, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Channel One Inc.
- Where is Foundation for Essential Needs based?
- Foundation for Essential Needs is based in MN.
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