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Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$200
Largest grant, FY2024
$200
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$4k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$300100%
FY20232$750100%
FY20221$500n/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$700Health$500Education$250Human Services$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ukulele Festival Hawaii$50015%
The Butterfly Path Inc$5001n/a
The Foundation for Bayport Public Library$25010%
Orion Art Center$20010%
Valley Outreach$10010%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust

How much does Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust give?
Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust reported 2 grants totaling $300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Health (32%), Education (16%).
Who are Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Ukulele Festival Hawaii ($500), The Butterfly Path Inc ($500), The Foundation for Bayport Public Library ($250).
Does Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust based?
Instigation Foundation Charitable Trust is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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