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Granite Charitable

Provide funding via supported organizations to non-profit organizations in minnesota that reduce poverty, advance economic opportunity, and enhance community well-being.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
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100% of Granite Charitable’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Communitygiving, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$112,626
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,659,400
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$64M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.7MCommunity Improvement$487kHealth$113k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2025.

COMMUNITYGIVING$1,659,400
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$121,512
CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION$112,626
INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$56,685
MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION$32,073

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.

Rick and Helga Bauerly FoundationDE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Minnesota Community Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Granite Charitable?

Find your warmest path to Granite Charitable through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Granite Charitable

How much does Granite Charitable give?
Granite Charitable reported 5 grants totaling $1,982,296 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Granite Charitable fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Philanthropy (86%), Community Improvement (11%), Health (3%).
Which funders back the same organizations as Granite Charitable?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation, Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc, Minnesota Community Foundation.
Where is Granite Charitable based?
Granite Charitable 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 5 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 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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