How much does Frush Family Foundation give?

Frush Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $28,510 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Frush Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Religion (17%), Arts & Culture (15%).

Who are Frush Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hiawatha Academies ($80k), Mayflower Community Congregational ($18k), Minnesota Orchestral Association ($13k).

Does Frush Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Frush Family 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 Frush Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The K Foundation.

Where is Frush Family Foundation based?

Frush Family Foundation is based in MN.

Frush Family Foundation

Frush Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Frush Family 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.

$29k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$170kReligion$59kArts & Culture$53kHealth$26kCivil Rights$8kEnvironment$8kFood & Nutrition$7kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k26 grants · $19k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$400

Median grant

States reached

$145k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HIAWATHA ACADEMIES	$10,000
FILM NORTH	$5,000
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UCC OF MADISON	$2,000
THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION	$1,500
SOUTHERN POVERY LAW CENTER	$1,000
WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC	$1,000
ECHO THEATER COMPANY	$1,000
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UCC OF COLUMBUS OHIO	$1,000
RUSH UNIVERSITY	$1,000
MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY	$1,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$500
MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE	$500
BARTON SCHOOL FOUNDATION	$500
ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION	$400
ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE	$300

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 (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$295k · 48 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$295k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+14%

Still filing today

69%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthInternationalFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentOther

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

HA
HIAWATHA ACADEMIES
9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +61%
MA
MINNESOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION
6× · 2018–2023 · $7k · revenue +108%
MC
MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY
6× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +190%

Funded once

MC
MAYFLOWER COMMUNITY CONGREGATIONAL
one grant, 2024 · $18k
F
FILMSCENEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +53%
MA
MN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $2k

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.

Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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Minnesota Grocers Association

The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…

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Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement

Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit

Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement

University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education

Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is My Sisters Keeper of Atlanta. 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

53 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. 53 of the 81 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)

51/53

Grantees still filing

38/53

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$191,845Education$85,500Arts & Culture$36,731Health$12,850Environment$6,700Human Services$6,500Crime & Legal$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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN23.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mortenson Family Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing

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 Frush Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frush Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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