Minnesota · Private foundation
Holmes Csm Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $570,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Holmes Csm Family Foundation 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.
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 | 7 | $1.1M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $985k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $303k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $1.3M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $935k | 90% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $718k | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allina Health Foundation | $2,464,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation | $2,441,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Friends of East Africa Foundation | $779,665 | 6 | 43% |
| Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $155,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Northern Star Council | $110,000 | 2 | 1% |
| University of St Thomas | $107,920 | 2 | 0% |
| Wayzata Community Church | $80,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Naples United Church of Christ | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Minneapolis Regional Chamber Development Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 23 grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($862k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Holmes Csm Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation · Longview Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The K Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Holmes Csm Family Foundation
- How much does Holmes Csm Family Foundation give?
- Holmes Csm Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $1,089,585 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Holmes Csm Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (69%), International (14%), Community Improvement (5%).
- Who are Holmes Csm Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Allina Health Foundation ($2.5M), Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation ($2.4M), Friends of East Africa Foundation ($780k).
- Does Holmes Csm Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Holmes Csm Family 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 Holmes Csm Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is Holmes Csm Family Foundation based?
- Holmes Csm Family Foundation is based in MN.
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