Arizona · Private foundation
Joy in Blue 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 29
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- 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 Joy in Blue Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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 | 28 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $1.0M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.1M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $1.0M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $916k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $747k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $291k | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $868,708 | 7 | 0% |
| The Bail Project Inc | $499,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Solid Ground | $330,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Feeding America | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $260,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Women's Advocates Inc | $220,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $202,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Helping Paws Inc | $200,000 | 7 | 3% |
| For The Good | $190,000 | 7 | 20% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joy in Blue Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 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: Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Rathmann Family Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Margaret a Cargill Foundation
How this is measured
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About Joy in Blue Foundation
- How much does Joy in Blue Foundation give?
- Joy in Blue Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,171,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Joy in Blue Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Arts & Culture (11%), Crime & Legal (11%).
- Who are Joy in Blue Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Minnesota Foundation ($869k), The Bail Project Inc ($499k), Solid Ground ($330k).
- Does Joy in Blue Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joy in Blue 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 Joy in Blue Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hardenbergh Foundation, Fr Bigelow Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is Joy in Blue Foundation based?
- Joy in Blue Foundation is based in AZ.
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