Minnesota · Public charity
Mankato Area Foundation
The Mankato Area Foundation is a trusted resource that connects donors with causes they care about, provides funding to enhance our region and serves as a collaborative community partner.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 100
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $538,517
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 76
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Mankato Area Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $806k 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 | 95 | $3.5M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 71 | $3.0M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $3.0M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $2.0M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $1.6M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $1.1M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $765k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $739k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota | $1,671,382 | 8 | 22% |
| Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc | $937,073 | 7 | 6% |
| Creative Foundation | $880,941 | 3 | 66% |
| Mankato Youth Place Inc | $800,997 | 6 | 17% |
| Minnesota State University Mankato Foundation Inc | $707,057 | 8 | 1% |
| Feeding Our Communities Partners | $425,012 | 9 | 11% |
| Emergency Community Help Organization Inc | $418,432 | 9 | 5% |
| South Central College Foundation | $396,490 | 9 | 7% |
| Christ the King Lutheran Church | $362,613 | 8 | n/a |
| Mankato Symphony Orchestra Inc | $330,965 | 6 | 39% |
Show all 197 grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($232k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mankato Area Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 127 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: L & N Andreas Foundation · Glen a Taylor Foundation · Valley News Foundation · Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Jones Page Jacobson Family Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation
How this is measured
About Mankato Area Foundation
- How much does Mankato Area Foundation give?
- Mankato Area Foundation reported 100 itemized grants totaling $3,522,851, out of $4,059,579 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 76 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mankato Area Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (20%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Mankato Area Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota ($1.7M), Greater Mankato Area United Way Inc ($937k), Creative Foundation ($881k).
- Does Mankato Area Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mankato Area Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include L & N Andreas Foundation, Glen a Taylor Foundation, Valley News Foundation.
- Where is Mankato Area Foundation based?
- Mankato Area Foundation is based in MN.
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