Minnesota · Public charity
Friends of Education
The organization's mission is to improve the education of children.
- $145k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $135k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,350
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Friends of Education 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.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $135k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $81k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $84k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $131k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $141k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $59k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $92k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $48k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Ridge Academy | $168,129 | 8 | 0% |
| St Croix Preparatory Academy | $140,016 | 9 | 0% |
| Davinci Academy of Arts and Science | $77,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Cologne Academy | $72,850 | 7 | 0% |
| Seven Hills Preparatory Academy | $70,915 | 8 | 0% |
| Yinghua Academy | $66,888 | 6 | 0% |
| Hennepin Schools | $62,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ron Clark Academy Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Parnassus Preparatory School | $44,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Nova Classical Academy | $42,790 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Ridge Academy | $168,129 | 8 | 0% |
| St Croix Preparatory Academy | $140,016 | 9 | 0% |
| Davinci Academy of Arts and Science | $77,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Cologne Academy | $72,850 | 7 | 0% |
| Seven Hills Preparatory Academy | $70,915 | 8 | 0% |
| Yinghua Academy | $66,888 | 6 | 0% |
| Hennepin Schools | $62,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ron Clark Academy Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Parnassus Preparatory School | $44,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Nova Classical Academy | $42,790 | 5 | 0% |
| Aspen Academy | $30,500 | 4 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friends of Education 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Friends of Education
- How much does Friends of Education give?
- Friends of Education reported 7 itemized grants totaling $134,871, out of $144,870 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Friends of Education fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Friends of Education's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eagle Ridge Academy ($168k), St Croix Preparatory Academy ($140k), Davinci Academy of Arts and Science ($78k).
- Does Friends of Education fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Friends of Education?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Friends of Education based?
- Friends of Education is based in MN.
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