Minnesota · Private foundation
George Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 166
- Grants FY2024
- 141
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,038,245
- Organizations funded a year
- 124 to 141
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $51M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations George Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $247k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 152 | $4.8M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 141 | $4.4M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 131 | $4.0M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 124 | $3.2M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 138 | $4.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of the North | $3,833,254 | 5 | 1% |
| Duke University | $974,109 | 4 | 0% |
| Georgia Tech Foundation Inc | $551,609 | 5 | 0% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $477,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Guthrie Theater Foundation | $454,568 | 5 | 0% |
| University of St Thomas | $433,284 | 5 | 0% |
| The 1440 Foundation | $400,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Sojourners Inc | $375,000 | 5 | 2% |
| On Being Project | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Auburn Theological Seminary | $278,100 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 194 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
George Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 186 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Youthprise · Otto Bremer Trust · Target Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota
How this is measured
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About George Family Foundation
- How much does George Family Foundation give?
- George Family Foundation reported 166 grants totaling $5,017,464 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 124 and 141 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does George Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (21%), Human Services (20%), Health (16%).
- Who are George Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Young Mens Christian Association of the North ($3.8M), Duke University ($974k), Georgia Tech Foundation Inc ($552k).
- Does George Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George 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 George Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mortenson Family Foundation.
- Where is George Family Foundation based?
- George Family Foundation is based in MN.
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