· Private foundation
Gandrud Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Owatonna Public Schools | $2,800 |
| Gamehaven Council BSA | $2,000 |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $2,000 |
| Florida Sheriff's Youth Ranch | $1,000 |
| United Way of Steele County | $1,000 |
| Healthy Seniors | $1,000 |
| Owatonna Children's Remedial Fund | $1,000 |
| Steele County Agricultural Society | $1,000 |
| Stout University Foundation | $500 |
| Steele County Historical Society | $500 |
| MicrobeTV Inc | $500 |
| Univeristy Episcopal Church | $500 |
| Owatonna Public Library Foundation | $500 |
| Owatonna Arts Center | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Gandrud Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
- UWUNITED WAY OF STEELE COUNTY6× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +12%
- SCSTEELE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MTMN Tourette Syndrome Associationone grant, 2019 · $2k
- CChapterone grant, 2020 · $2k
- FSFLORIDA SHERIFF YOUTH RANCHone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
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.
To foster education, entertainment, information and achievement for people of all ages in agriculture.
The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…
Operate and maintain the county fair, grounds, and related activities in stevens county, mn
To collect, preserve, and interpret the history of winona county.
The organization is an interfaith group responding to people with housing needs and working with groups to help create, locate, and enter affordable housing.
Provide grants to the state university of iowa foundation in accordance with exempt purpose, which in turn grants funds to the state university of iowa.
The association of minnesota counties is a voluntary non-partisan statewide organization that assists the state's 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of minnesota.
The stark county historical society is dedicated to collecting and preserving the significant materials and records related to the history of stark county and the presidential history of william mckinley. through the mckinley presidential…
The Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Foundation WPBF supports the work of the Educational Communications Board ECB a State of Wisconsin agency committed to ensuring that public media and public safety programs and services are available…
To cultivate civil discourse, increase understanding, and create common ground by connecting wisconsin people and ideas.
Promote, represent & advocate for the cooperative way of doing business
To foster the science and art of natural resource conservation. our work targets conservation of soil, water and related natural resources on working land-the land used to produce food, fiber, and other services that improve the quality of…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF STEELE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Steele County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds STEELE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEELE COUNTY CLOTHESLINE INC ↗
- Who funds MicrobeTV Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARASITES WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gandrud Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gandrud Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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