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Inter City Oil Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
83%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$462k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Inter City Oil Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$13k50%
FY20246$18k83%
FY20236$11k67%
FY20223$6k67%
FY20219$14k78%
FY20208$21kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$22kHuman Services$19kYouth Development$9kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$5kReligion$4kRecreation & Sports$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northern Star Council$7,50020%
Damiano of Duluth Inc$6,00020%
Second Harvest Northland$3,50010%
Lake Superior Railroad Musuem$3,50010%
Women's Care Center Duluth Inc$3,00030%
Churches United in Ministry$2,50010%
American Legion Post 71$1,50011%
Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse$1,00010%
Rotary International$1,00011%
Superior Community Gardens Association$1,0001n/a
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All grantees of Inter City Oil Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northern Star Council$7,50020%
Damiano of Duluth Inc$6,00020%
Second Harvest Northland$3,50010%
Lake Superior Railroad Musuem$3,50010%
Women's Care Center Duluth Inc$3,00030%
Churches United in Ministry$2,50010%
American Legion Post 71$1,50011%
Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse$1,00010%
Rotary International$1,00011%
Superior Community Gardens Association$1,0001n/a
St Louis River Quest$1,0001n/a
St Louis River Alliance$1,00011%
Northwestern Tigers Education Foundation$5001n/a

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Inter City Oil Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthern Star Council: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDamiano of Duluth Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSecond Harvest Northland: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Superior Railroad Musuem: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWomen's Care Center Duluth Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChurches United in Ministry: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 71: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCenter Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRotary International: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSt Louis River Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Duluth-Superior Area Community FoundationMN17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Campbell Family Charitable Trust · Smdc Medical Center · Minnesota Power Foundation · Northland Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Inter City Oil Foundation

How much does Inter City Oil Foundation give?
Inter City Oil Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $12,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Inter City Oil Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Human Services (23%), Youth Development (10%).
Who are Inter City Oil Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Northern Star Council ($8k), Damiano of Duluth Inc ($6k), Second Harvest Northland ($4k).
Does Inter City Oil Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Inter City Oil Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Inter City Oil Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Campbell Family Charitable Trust, Smdc Medical Center.
Where is Inter City Oil Foundation based?
Inter City Oil Foundation 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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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