Minnesota · Private foundation
Hardscrabble 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.
- $193k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $26,250
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Hardscrabble Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 5 | $193k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $209k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $197k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $194k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $221k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $195k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $194k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $67k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgeview Foundation | $589,000 | 5 | 4% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $130,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $72,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Chaska Area Fishing With Friends | $67,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Folds of Honor Foundation Minnesota Inc | $46,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation | $36,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Prager University Foundation | $36,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mission Pre-Born Inc | $30,001 | 1 | n/a |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gilda's Club Twin Cities Inc | $22,500 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hardscrabble 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Bame Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The K Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Ron and Kathy Colby Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust
How this is measured
About Hardscrabble Foundation
- How much does Hardscrabble Foundation give?
- Hardscrabble Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $193,251 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Hardscrabble Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (71%), Education (8%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
- Who are Hardscrabble Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ridgeview Foundation ($589k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($130k), Blood Cancer United Inc ($72k).
- Does Hardscrabble Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hardscrabble 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 Hardscrabble Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Hardscrabble Foundation based?
- Hardscrabble Foundation is based in MN.
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