Minnesota · Private foundation
Inventure Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $13k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Inventure Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $999 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 | 4 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $37k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $17k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $13k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiet Oaks | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Anna Marie's Alliance | $2,035 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater St Cloud Development Corporation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Paramount Center for the Arts | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Sauk Rapids-Rice School District | $180 | 1 | n/a |
| St Cloud State University Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
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: Communitygiving · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Morgan Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Central Minnesota Arts Board · Initiative Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Inventure Foundation
- How much does Inventure Foundation give?
- Inventure Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $13,496 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Inventure Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (56%), Human Services (28%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Inventure Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Quiet Oaks ($13k), Anna Marie's Alliance ($2k), Greater St Cloud Development Corporation ($2k).
- Does Inventure Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Inventure 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 Inventure Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communitygiving, Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation, Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc.
- Where is Inventure Foundation based?
- Inventure Foundation is based in MN.
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