How much does Freshwater Society give?

Freshwater Society reported 5 itemized grants totaling $110,000, out of $140,735 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.

What does Freshwater Society fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (55%), Environment (29%), Education (16%).

Who are Freshwater Society's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Bolin-Zweig ($453k), Marine Area Community School ($68k), Carleton College ($57k).

Does Freshwater Society fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Freshwater Society?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Land Trust Alliance Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Freshwater Society based?

Freshwater Society is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Freshwater Society

Inspiring and empowering people to value and preserve our freshwater resources.

$141k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 5
Itemized grants FY2025: 8
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $110k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $30,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 10; FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $4.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Freshwater Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	5	$110k	0%
FY2024	8	$535k	0%
FY2023	10	$186k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$453kEnvironment$242kEducation$136k

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
Bolin-Zweig	$453,448	2	n/a
Marine Area Community School	$68,200	3	1%
Carleton College	$57,164	2	0%
Black Swamp Conservancy	$50,000	3	1%
Landmark Conservancy Inc	$50,000	3	1%
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc	$50,000	3	5%
Minnesota Land Trust	$50,000	3	0%
Water 365	$31,574	2	n/a
Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota	$10,727	1	0%
Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy	$10,000	1	2%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Freshwater Society 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 8.

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.

Land Trust Alliance IncDC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Land Trust Alliance Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Freshwater Society

How much does Freshwater Society give?: Freshwater Society reported 5 itemized grants totaling $110,000, out of $140,735 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Freshwater Society fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (55%), Environment (29%), Education (16%).
Who are Freshwater Society's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Bolin-Zweig ($453k), Marine Area Community School ($68k), Carleton College ($57k).
Does Freshwater Society fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Freshwater Society?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Land Trust Alliance Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Freshwater Society based?: Freshwater Society is based in MN.