Minnesota · Private foundation
Messerli & Kramer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $566k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Messerli & Kramer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | $35k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $31k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $24k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $32k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $28k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $23k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $20k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Side Learning Center | $28,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Breakthrough Twin Cities | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Keystone Community Services | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Reading Partners | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Commonbond Communities | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wallin Education Partners | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Literacy Minnesota | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| People Serving People Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Baby's Space a Place to Grow | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foster Advocates | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Side Learning Center | $28,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Breakthrough Twin Cities | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Keystone Community Services | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Reading Partners | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Commonbond Communities | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wallin Education Partners | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Literacy Minnesota | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| People Serving People Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Baby's Space a Place to Grow | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foster Advocates | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| 30000 Feet | $8,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Neighborhood House | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement North | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Perspectives Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Advancing Equity Coalition | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| College Possible Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Messerli & Kramer 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: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Warren Foundation
How this is measured
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About Messerli & Kramer Foundation
- How much does Messerli & Kramer Foundation give?
- Messerli & Kramer Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Messerli & Kramer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Human Services (28%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Messerli & Kramer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: East Side Learning Center ($28k), Breakthrough Twin Cities ($22k), Keystone Community Services ($21k).
- Does Messerli & Kramer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Messerli & Kramer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Messerli & Kramer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Walser Foundation.
- Where is Messerli & Kramer Foundation based?
- Messerli & Kramer Foundation is based in MN.
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