Minnesota · Private foundation
Minnesota Power Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $655k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 143
- Grants FY2025
- 146
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $99,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 122 to 146
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $961k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Minnesota Power Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k 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 | 116 | $654k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 146 | $841k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 145 | $792k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 129 | $620k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 123 | $595k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 122 | $460k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 145 | $541k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of the Lakes United Way | $724,500 | 7 | 7% |
| United Way of 1000 Lakes | $323,750 | 7 | 17% |
| United Way of Ne Minnesota | $203,250 | 7 | 2% |
| Second Harvest Northland | $172,131 | 7 | 0% |
| Essentia Health Foundation | $110,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United Way of Carlton and Pine County Area | $96,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Morrison County United Way Inc | $71,000 | 7 | 8% |
| College of St Scholastica Inc | $61,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Duluth Playhouse Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| First Witness Child Advocacy Center | $51,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 216 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 293 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Minnesota Power 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: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Northland Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · C K Blandin Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mardag Foundation · Second Harvest Northland · Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation · Pachel Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way
How this is measured
About Minnesota Power Foundation
- How much does Minnesota Power Foundation give?
- Minnesota Power Foundation reported 143 grants totaling $654,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 122 and 146 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Minnesota Power Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Food & Nutrition (9%), Education (8%).
- Who are Minnesota Power Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Head of the Lakes United Way ($725k), United Way of 1000 Lakes ($324k), United Way of Ne Minnesota ($203k).
- Does Minnesota Power Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Minnesota Power Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Power Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Lloyd K Johnson Foundation, Northland Foundation.
- Where is Minnesota Power Foundation based?
- Minnesota Power Foundation is based in MN.
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