Minnesota · Private foundation
Kirsch Scholarship Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,842
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,516
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 8
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Kirsch Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 7 | $61k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $72k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $55k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $72k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $69k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $74k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 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 Wisconsin | $49,718 | 3 | n/a |
| Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa | $35,976 | 3 | 0% |
| Marian University Inc | $7,073 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornell College | $7,073 | 1 | 0% |
| Mound Farm Holdings Inc | $5,962 | 1 | 0% |
| Lakeland University | $5,962 | 1 | 0% |
| Edgewood University Inc | $4,953 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Dubuque | $4,231 | 1 | 0% |
| Creighton University | $3,815 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($277k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kirsch Scholarship Fund 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Kirsch Scholarship Fund
- How much does Kirsch Scholarship Fund give?
- Kirsch Scholarship Fund reported 7 grants totaling $61,061 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Kirsch Scholarship Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Kirsch Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin ($50k), Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ($36k), Marian University Inc ($7k).
- Does Kirsch Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kirsch Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kirsch Scholarship Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Kirsch Scholarship Fund based?
- Kirsch Scholarship Fund is based in MN.
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