Minnesota · Private foundation
Medtronic Communities Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Medtronic Communities Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Blackbaud Giving Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $253,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,119,681
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Medtronic Communities Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 15 | $7.7M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $5.4M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $16M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $13M | 49% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $17M | 82% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $16M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medtronic Global Health Foundation | $21,242,764 | 2 | 100% |
| Thurgood Marshall College Fund | $10,000,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Northside Achievement Zone | $5,000,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc | $3,250,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $3,175,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Medical Corps | $2,390,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc | $2,358,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Bakken | $2,302,500 | 5 | 53% |
| Children's Heartlink | $2,235,000 | 5 | 37% |
| Puerto Rico Science Technology and Research Trust | $1,400,000 | 1 | 6% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Medtronic Communities Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Cargill Foundation · Target Foundation · Northwest Area Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · George Family Foundation · The Bush Foundation
How this is measured
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About Medtronic Communities Foundation
- How much does Medtronic Communities Foundation give?
- Medtronic Communities Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $15,609,866 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Medtronic Communities Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), International (24%), Education (12%).
- Who are Medtronic Communities Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medtronic Global Health Foundation ($21M), Thurgood Marshall College Fund ($10M), Northside Achievement Zone ($5.0M).
- Does Medtronic Communities Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Medtronic Communities Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Medtronic Communities Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Medtronic Communities Foundation based?
- Medtronic Communities Foundation is based in MN.
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