Florida · Private foundation
James and Nancy Holmgren 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.
- $332k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 26 | $332k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $319k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $328k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $286k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $196k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $123k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $92k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $239k | 33% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | $635,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dunwoody College of Technology | $107,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Life House Inc | $105,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Veterans Memorial Park | $95,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $85,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Best Christmas Ever Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 1% |
| First Witness Child Advocacy Center | $45,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Water Missions International | $41,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Minnesota Masonic Children's Clinic for Communication Disorders | $30,875 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($522k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
Compare James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation with peer funders
About James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation
- How much does James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation give?
- James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $332,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Youth Development (12%), Education (9%).
- Who are James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota ($635k), Dunwoody College of Technology ($108k), Life House Inc ($105k).
- Does James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James and Nancy Holmgren 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 James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Lloyd K Johnson Foundation, Northland Foundation.
- Where is James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation based?
- James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation is based in FL.
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