Minnesota · Private foundation
Hiawatha Education Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $48,600
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $61M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Hiawatha Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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 | 34 | $3.0M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $2.3M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $2.6M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $2.5M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $1.9M | 16% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $1.7M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $2.0M | 29% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cotter Schools | $6,428,789 | 7 | 17% |
| Creekside Montessori School | $720,450 | 8 | 9% |
| Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated | $599,700 | 8 | 24% |
| Hmong American Partnership | $597,300 | 4 | 2% |
| Little Voyageurs' Montessori School Inc | $463,150 | 8 | 16% |
| White Bear Montessori School | $375,600 | 8 | 9% |
| Austin Catholic Schools Inc | $194,400 | 6 | n/a |
| Overbrook School | $160,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Wildwood Montessori | $142,950 | 4 | 26% |
| Sunny Hollow Montessori | $142,200 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hiawatha Education Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: Think Small · First Children's Finance · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Wildflower Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Hiawatha Education Foundation
- How much does Hiawatha Education Foundation give?
- Hiawatha Education Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $2,951,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Hiawatha Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (92%), Arts & Culture (4%), Employment (3%).
- Who are Hiawatha Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cotter Schools ($6.4M), Creekside Montessori School ($720k), Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated ($600k).
- Does Hiawatha Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hiawatha Education Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hiawatha Education Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Think Small, First Children's Finance, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is Hiawatha Education Foundation based?
- Hiawatha Education Foundation is based in MN.
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