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Fruin - Colnon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$722k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Fruin - Colnon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$35k60%
FY20249$34k22%
FY202310$37k40%
FY202218$47k39%
FY202115$35k13%
FY202015$45k33%
FY201913$30k31%
FY201811$24k36%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$101kHuman Services$54kHealth$50kReligion$22kHousing & Shelter$22kArts & Culture$17kCommunity Improvement$13kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
MS
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($137k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fruin - Colnon Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $40,294 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Historical Society: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $11,640 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heights Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Patrick Center: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTutwiler Clinc Inc: $7,160 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetSt Louis Crisis Nursery: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Zachary & Elizabeth M Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation: $5,562 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity International Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZero Prostate Cancer: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $5,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreenpeace Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $4,320 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Triangle: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetScholarship America Inc: $2,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLydia's House Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $1,920 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Transportation and Development Policy: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthDance: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarpenter's Shelter Inc: $960 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 21.

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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.

Trio Foundation of St LouisMO22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trio Foundation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Regional Business Council · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Greater Saint Louis

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 Fruin - Colnon Foundation

How much does Fruin - Colnon Foundation give?
Fruin - Colnon Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $34,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Fruin - Colnon Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Human Services (17%), Health (16%).
Who are Fruin - Colnon Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($40k), Missouri Historical Society ($17k), Fisher House Foundation Inc ($12k).
Does Fruin - Colnon Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fruin - Colnon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fruin - Colnon Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trio Foundation of St Louis, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company.
Where is Fruin - Colnon Foundation based?
Fruin - Colnon Foundation is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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