How much does Great Mn Schools give?

Great Mn Schools reported 24 grants totaling $1,100,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Great Mn Schools fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (80%), Human Services (8%), Community Improvement (6%).

Who are Great Mn Schools's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hiawatha Academies ($1.5M), Prodeo Academy Charter School #4213 ($1.2M), Hennepin Schools ($839k).

Does Great Mn Schools fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Great Mn Schools?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mortenson Family Foundation.

Where is Great Mn Schools based?

Great Mn Schools is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. Ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 24
Grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 15%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $315,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 23; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $216k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Great Mn Schools funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalReligionPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	24	$1.1M	13%
FY2024	20	$966k	15%
FY2023	18	$605k	22%
FY2022	23	$1.1M	43%
FY2021	20	$1.2M	50%
FY2020	9	$1.5M	44%
FY2019	4	$790k	25%
FY2018	7	$723k	43%

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$7.2MHuman Services$707kCommunity Improvement$560kArts & Culture$315kCrime & Legal$120kPublic Benefit$45kCivil Rights$45k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hiawatha Academies	$1,502,000	6	2%
Prodeo Academy Charter School #4213	$1,170,000	7	2%
Hennepin Schools	$838,682	6	3%
Ed Allies	$410,000	6	19%
LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts	$405,000	1	12%
Global Academy	$394,100	5	2%
Northeast College Prep Charter School No 4219	$367,000	5	2%
Hope Academy Inc	$354,500	4	1%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School	$320,000	4	n/a
Friendship Academy of the Arts	$287,500	5	2%

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All grantees of Great Mn Schools by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hiawatha Academies	$1,502,000	6	2%
Prodeo Academy Charter School #4213	$1,170,000	7	2%
Hennepin Schools	$838,682	6	3%
Ed Allies	$410,000	6	19%
LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts	$405,000	1	12%
Global Academy	$394,100	5	2%
Northeast College Prep Charter School No 4219	$367,000	5	2%
Hope Academy Inc	$354,500	4	1%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School	$320,000	4	n/a
Friendship Academy of the Arts	$287,500	5	2%
Bellwether Education Partners Inc	$224,986	1	1%
Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation	$220,000	5	1%
KIPP Minnesota	$212,000	3	1%
Centro Tyrone Guzman	$204,000	4	2%
Lead the Way Mn	$180,000	3	97%
New City School	$166,500	4	2%
Way to Grow	$160,000	4	2%
National Parents Union Inc	$145,000	3	4%
Little Earth Residents Association Inc	$135,000	5	2%
Pillsbury United Communities	$125,000	5	0%
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc	$122,500	5	1%
Northside Achievement Zone	$120,000	4	0%
Educators for Excellence Inc	$115,000	4	0%
Minnesota Parent Union	$100,000	3	13%
Education Evolving	$90,000	3	2%
New Millennium Academy	$74,000	1	1%
Minneapolis Public School	$50,000	1	n/a
Ayada Leads	$45,000	2	6%
Minnesota Wildflower Montessori School	$45,000	2	2%
Mn Zej Zog	$45,000	2	2%
Minnesota Association of Charter School Authorizers	$40,000	2	36%
Standing Together and Never Divided Up Minnesota Parents United	$35,000	1	n/a
Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches	$35,000	1	2%
Somali American Parent Association	$30,000	1	14%
Southside Family Nurturing Center	$30,000	1	2%
Propel Nonprofits	$25,000	2	0%
Minnesota Association of Charter Schools	$20,000	1	4%
Agamim Classical Academy	$20,000	1	0%
Hmong American Partnership	$20,000	1	0%
Indigenous Roots	$20,000	2	1%
Partnership Academy Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Harweyn Founation	$15,000	1	n/a
African American Leadership Forum	$10,000	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Great Mn Schools supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

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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 FoundationMN47× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minnesota Community Foundation · Think Small · Ciresi Walburn Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · Wem Foundation

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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About Great Mn Schools

How much does Great Mn Schools give?: Great Mn Schools reported 24 grants totaling $1,100,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Great Mn Schools fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (80%), Human Services (8%), Community Improvement (6%).
Who are Great Mn Schools's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hiawatha Academies ($1.5M), Prodeo Academy Charter School #4213 ($1.2M), Hennepin Schools ($839k).
Does Great Mn Schools fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Great Mn Schools?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mortenson Family Foundation.
Where is Great Mn Schools based?: Great Mn Schools is based in MN.