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Krisbin 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.

$454k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$95,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$6.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Krisbin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$447k13%
FY202325$351k24%
FY202233$412k21%
FY202130$332k27%
FY202032$293k41%
FY201919$289k0%
FY201820$297k90%
FY201716$259kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.4MPhilanthropy$363kHuman Services$283kHealth$251kYouth Development$102kHousing & Shelter$34kCrime & Legal$25kCivil Rights$23kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Krisbin Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Olaf College: $392,193 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetClose Gaps by 5: $255,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetBoston Medical Center Corporation: $171,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThink Small: $150,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Twin Cities United Way: $95,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Constellation Fund: $85,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBusinesses United in Investing Lending & Development: $54,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Blake School: $46,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRise Early Learning Center: $45,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt David's Center: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough Greater Boston Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Children: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthside Achievement Zone: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Outreach and Community Partners: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Odayin: $11,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPartnership Academy Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Leads Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCitrus County 4-H Association Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetMicrogrants: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTanzania Health Partnership: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMatter: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Resources for Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommonbond Communities: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRazom Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLift Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Ed Academy: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Francis House Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Lunch Place Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Wem Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation · BCBSM Foundation Inc · The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Krisbin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Krisbin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Krisbin Foundation

How much does Krisbin Foundation give?
Krisbin Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $453,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Krisbin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Philanthropy (13%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Krisbin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Olaf College ($392k), Close Gaps by 5 ($255k), Boston Medical Center Corporation ($171k).
Does Krisbin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Krisbin 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 Krisbin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Krisbin Foundation based?
Krisbin Foundation is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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