Minnesota · Private foundation
Hartz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $177k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Hartz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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 | 21 | $177k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $165k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $133k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $39k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $215k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $122k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $89k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $83k | 28% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northland Community and Technical College Foundation | $241,200 | 9 | 5% |
| The Discovery Place | $98,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Pennington County Historical Society Inc | $58,000 | 4 | 29% |
| City of Warren | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Violence Intervention Project | $46,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Thief River Falls Area Community Theater | $28,250 | 5 | 13% |
| Warroad Community Childcare Center | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thief River Falls Athletic Association | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prairie Pines Childcare Center | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Girl Scouts - Dakota Horizons | $24,300 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($258k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hartz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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.
Open a dossier: Northwest Minnesota Foundation · Beito Foundation · Randall Noper Char Tr · Northwest Minnesota Arts Council · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Sanford Group Return · Minnesota Historical Society · North Dakota Community Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Hartz Foundation
- How much does Hartz Foundation give?
- Hartz Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $177,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hartz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (16%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Hartz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northland Community and Technical College Foundation ($241k), The Discovery Place ($99k), Pennington County Historical Society Inc ($58k).
- Does Hartz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hartz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hartz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Minnesota Foundation, Beito Foundation, Randall Noper Char Tr.
- Where is Hartz Foundation based?
- Hartz Foundation is based in MN.
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