Minnesota · Private foundation
Graybrier 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.
- $22k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $311k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Graybrier Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $20k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $35k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $21k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $18k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $11k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $16k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Community Services | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $14,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Project for Pride in Living Inc | $7,575 | 4 | 0% |
| Intercongregation Communities Association Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| St Francis Mission | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Luther College | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Minnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Resourcewest | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Community Services | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $14,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Project for Pride in Living Inc | $7,575 | 4 | 0% |
| Intercongregation Communities Association Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| St Francis Mission | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Luther College | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Minnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Resourcewest | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of Mn and Wi River Valleys Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| So-Hi Community Park | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Episcopal Relief and Development | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $1,950 | 5 | 0% |
| Twin Cities Public Television Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Therese | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lake Minnetonka Association | $550 | 2 | 0% |
| Reel Recovery Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Graybrier Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
About Graybrier Foundation
- How much does Graybrier Foundation give?
- Graybrier Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $22,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Graybrier Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (13%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Graybrier Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Senior Community Services ($14k), Salvation Army ($14k), Project for Pride in Living Inc ($8k).
- Does Graybrier Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Graybrier 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 Graybrier Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Graybrier Foundation based?
- Graybrier Foundation is based in MN.
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