Minnesota · Community foundation
Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation
The mission of the GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to inspire philanthropy and enrich the lives of people who live in the communities that share the shores of white bear lake.
- $275k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation’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. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $203k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2024
- $203k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $36,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $26k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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 | 16 | $203k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $164k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $94k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $653k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $606k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $470k | 89% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $110k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $69k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Bear Center for the Arts | $756,600 | 4 | 42% |
| Newtrax Inc | $465,137 | 5 | 8% |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| City of White Bear Lake | $185,000 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Mahtomedi | $120,066 | 1 | n/a |
| Lakeshore Players Inc | $56,000 | 5 | 1% |
| White Bear Lake Area Historical Society | $53,000 | 5 | 6% |
| White Bear Area Food Shelf | $40,108 | 3 | 1% |
| University of Northwestern - St Paul | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North Springs Church of the Assemblies of God | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Bear Center for the Arts | $756,600 | 4 | 42% |
| Newtrax Inc | $465,137 | 5 | 8% |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| City of White Bear Lake | $185,000 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Mahtomedi | $120,066 | 1 | n/a |
| Lakeshore Players Inc | $56,000 | 5 | 1% |
| White Bear Lake Area Historical Society | $53,000 | 5 | 6% |
| White Bear Area Food Shelf | $40,108 | 3 | 1% |
| University of Northwestern - St Paul | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North Springs Church of the Assemblies of God | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bethel University | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| UND Alumni Association and Foundation | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mahtomedi Area Educational Foundation | $29,000 | 2 | 4% |
| St Paul Academy and Summit School | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the North | $23,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Isd 624 | $23,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Children's Performing Arts | $21,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Bill Betchey Memorial Fund | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude of the Lake | $15,200 | 2 | n/a |
| St Andrews Evangelical Lutheran Church | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lake Links Association | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lyngblomsten Services Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| White Bear Lake Area Educational Foundat | $10,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Warren Community Hospital Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Animal Rescue League of Iowa Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| White Bear Sailing School | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Mission Safari | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Willow Lane Elementary Parent Teacher Organization | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Deloit Iowa | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Initiative for Orchestra Innovation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hammer Residences Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Guadalupe Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood North Central States | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rise Up Health Clinics | $7,500 | 1 | 3% |
| White Bear Lake Rotary Foundation | $5,660 | 1 | 7% |
| Solid Ground | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eagle Brook Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lutheran Braille Evangelism Association | $5,000 | 1 | 15% |
Where it is load-bearing
Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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.
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How this is measured
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About Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation
- How much does Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation give?
- Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $203,341, out of $274,597 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (68%), Arts & Culture (12%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: White Bear Center for the Arts ($757k), Newtrax Inc ($465k), Iowa State University Foundation ($200k).
- Does Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Osilas Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation based?
- Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation is based in MN.
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