Minnesota · Private foundation
Mains'L 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.
- $409k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 86%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 50
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Mains'L Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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 | 47 | $409k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $492k | 86% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $138k | 88% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $500 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matter | $206,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Arc Minnesota Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Global Leadership Network | $73,500 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Northwestern - St Paul | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sai International Children Foundation | $47,110 | 3 | n/a |
| H2o for Life | $40,500 | 4 | 2% |
| The Dwelling Place | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Century College Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Emergency Assistance Programs Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Anoka-Ramsey Community College Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($282k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mains'L Foundation 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Allina Health System · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Land O'Lakes Foundation · North Valley Community Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Mains'L Foundation
- How much does Mains'L Foundation give?
- Mains'L Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $409,306 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 50 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Mains'L Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (32%), Environment (14%), Education (10%).
- Who are Mains'L Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Matter ($207k), The Arc Minnesota Inc ($75k), Global Leadership Network ($74k).
- Does Mains'L Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mains'L 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 Mains'L Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Mains'L Foundation based?
- Mains'L Foundation is based in MN.
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