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James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
80%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,750
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,400
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$15k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 80% of the organizations James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
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 arriving5$10k40%
FY20245$9k80%
FY20237$9k29%
FY20226$9kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Environment$13kEducation$9kHealth$4kArts & Culture$4kHuman Services$2kEmployment$731Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Great River Greening$7,50030%
Rise Early Learning Center$6,90020%
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation$2,75020%
Upturnships Inc$2,25020%
Smithsonian Institution$1,75010%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$1,75020%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$1,00010%
YWCA of Minneapolis$75010%
Dress for Success Twin Cities$73110%
Hopekids Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreat River Greening: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRise Early Learning Center: $6,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUpturnships Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Public Radio American Public Media: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Minneapolis: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDress for Success Twin Cities: $731 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHopekids Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Xcel Energy FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Mightycause Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Xcel Energy FoundationMN17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation

How much does James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation give?
James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (34%), Education (25%), Health (11%).
Who are James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Great River Greening ($8k), Rise Early Learning Center ($7k), Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation ($3k).
Does James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is James D & Kathryn a Catalano Foundation based?
James D & Kathryn a Catalano 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 14 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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