Minnesota · Private foundation
James T Nystrom 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.
- $340k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $209k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations James T Nystrom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 41 | $340k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $279k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $278k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $220k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $173k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $123k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $114k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 53 | $107k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Western School of Law | $674,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $46,000 | 9 | 0% |
| African Wildlife Foundation Inc | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $41,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Big Life Foundation USA | $41,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Food Group Minnesota Inc The | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | $30,000 | 7 | 0% |
| People Serving People Inc | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Geographic Society | $28,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance | $27,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($272k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James T Nystrom 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.
Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The K Foundation · The Crosswols Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Longview Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation
How this is measured
About James T Nystrom Foundation
- How much does James T Nystrom Foundation give?
- James T Nystrom Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $339,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does James T Nystrom Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (38%), Environment (18%), Animals (11%).
- Who are James T Nystrom Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Western School of Law ($674k), Wildlife Conservation Network Inc ($46k), African Wildlife Foundation Inc ($44k).
- Does James T Nystrom Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James T Nystrom 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 T Nystrom Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is James T Nystrom Foundation based?
- James T Nystrom Foundation is based in MN.
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