Minnesota · Private foundation
Frances & Frank Wilkinson 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.
- $163k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $72,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 90
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% 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 | 58 | $163k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 90 | $39k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $19k | 66% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $21k | 81% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $9k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $9k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York Shakespeare Festival | $109,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Walker Art Center | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Guthrie Theater Foundation | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Minneapolis Parks Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Project Success | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Penumbra Theatre Company Inc | $5,100 | 2 | 0% |
| The Film Society of Minneapolis St Paul | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Theater Latte Da | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frances & Frank Wilkinson 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 · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · George Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Phileona Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Lenfestey Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation with peer funders
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About Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation
- How much does Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation give?
- Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $163,328 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 90 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (71%), Environment (5%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
- Who are Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: New York Shakespeare Festival ($109k), Walker Art Center ($17k), Guthrie Theater Foundation ($13k).
- Does Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frances & Frank Wilkinson 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 Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.
- Where is Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation based?
- Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation is based in MN.
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