Minnesota · Private foundation
John and Denise Graves Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2024
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 73
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $48M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations John and Denise Graves Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 | 67 | $2.7M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $2.9M | 53% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $2.7M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $2.4M | 66% |
| FY2020 | 68 | $3.0M | 59% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $2.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youthprise | $962,500 | 5 | 5% |
| The Link | $700,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | $661,094 | 2 | 0% |
| Achieve Twin Cities | $489,328 | 5 | 2% |
| Project for Pride in Living Inc | $390,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ed Allies | $360,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Great Mn Schools | $335,000 | 6 | 2% |
| PERIS Foundation | $330,500 | 3 | 38% |
| Foster Advocates | $317,516 | 5 | 13% |
| Pillsbury United Communities | $300,200 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 155 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 104 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John and Denise Graves Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family Foundation · Youthprise · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Mortenson Family Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Propel Nonprofits
How this is measured
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About John and Denise Graves Foundation
- How much does John and Denise Graves Foundation give?
- John and Denise Graves Foundation reported 85 grants totaling $2,801,285 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 73 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does John and Denise Graves Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Youth Development (24%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are John and Denise Graves Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Youthprise ($963k), The Link ($700k), Local Initiatives Support Corporation ($661k).
- Does John and Denise Graves Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Denise Graves Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John and Denise Graves Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.
- Where is John and Denise Graves Foundation based?
- John and Denise Graves Foundation is based in MN.
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