Minnesota · Private foundation
Joseph R Bayer Family 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.
- $121k
- Granted FY2023
- 34
- Grants FY2023
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Venn Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $121k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $76,095
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 39
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 9
- Total assets, FY2023
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 33 | $120k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $92k | 97% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $580k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annandale Art and Textile Center | $188,095 | 4 | 28% |
| Annandale Food Shelf | $8,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Pleasant Lake Improvement Association Inc | $7,550 | 3 | n/a |
| Union Gospel Mission Inc | $5,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Annandale Youth First Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $4,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Intercongregation Communities Association Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stearns County Historical Society | $3,250 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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
About Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation
- How much does Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation give?
- Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $120,995 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 39 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Religion (30%), Education (25%).
- Who are Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Annandale Art and Textile Center ($188k), Annandale Food Shelf ($9k), Pleasant Lake Improvement Association Inc ($8k).
- Does Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph R Bayer Family 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 Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Morgan Family Foundation, Central Minnesota Arts Board.
- Where is Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation based?
- Joseph R Bayer Family Foundation is based in MN.
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