Minnesota · Private foundation
Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust
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.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,012
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,463
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $35k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $213k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $79k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immanuel Lutheran Church | $206,526 | 3 | n/a |
| Immanuel Lutheran Church | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Concordia Academy | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith Bible Church | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Andrew Lutheran Church | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
Compare Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust
- How much does Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust give?
- Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust reported 6 grants totaling $34,806 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (75%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Immanuel Lutheran Church ($207k), Immanuel Lutheran Church ($60k), Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies ($25k).
- Does Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust 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 Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust based?
- Milton and Dorothy Fricke Charitable Trust is based in MN.
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