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.

Fruin - Colnon Foundation

Fruin - Colnon Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Fruin - Colnon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% 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

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$722k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE	$5,000
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE	$3,000
ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY	$2,500
FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH	$2,500
THE MISSOURI HISTORY MUSEUM	$2,500
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY	$2,500
ST PATRICK CENTER	$2,500
ALMOST HOME INC	$2,000
SEED ST LOUIS	$2,000
LYDIAS HOUSE	$2,000
THE GREAT RIVERS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTE	$2,000
WOMENS SAFE HOUSE	$1,800
WELCOME NEIGHBOR STLOUIS	$1,500
MIGRANT & IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY ACTION PRO	$1,500
EARTHDANCE ORGANIC FARM SCHOOL	$1,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$261k · 27 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$261k

$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+89%

Still filing today

48%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPublic 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.

Backed again, and grew

STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +83%
MH
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +73%
FH
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +32%

Funded once

FU
FINLANDIA UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +39%
BO
BISHOP OCONNELL HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $5k
RM
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE TRIANGLEgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +65%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Build Missouri Health

To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.

Human Services

University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Health

University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Health

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery; the most unlike its peers is The Academy of the New Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/30

Grantees still filing

23/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$217,639Education$47,844Arts & Culture$17,000Health$16,222Human Services$6,300Food & Nutrition$5,820International$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fruin - Colnon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fruin - Colnon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home