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Minnesota Private College Fund

The MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.

$919k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$51,449
Largest grant, FY2025
$132,988
Organizations funded a year
17 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Minnesota Private College Fund 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; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$933k0%
FY202417$1.0M0%
FY202317$899k0%
FY202217$991k0%
FY202117$1.1M0%
FY202017$765k0%
FY201917$954k0%
FY201817$1.0M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$8.5M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of St Thomas$1,477,86690%
Augsburg University$1,016,82390%
St Catherine University$539,57190%
St Olaf College$506,99990%
Concordia College Corporation$504,34890%
Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota$501,15690%
Concordia University St Paul$452,09490%
Gustavus Adolphus College$444,14590%
Saint John's University$440,26490%
Carleton College$397,85390%
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All grantees of Minnesota Private College Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of St Thomas$1,477,86690%
Augsburg University$1,016,82390%
St Catherine University$539,57190%
St Olaf College$506,99990%
Concordia College Corporation$504,34890%
Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota$501,15690%
Concordia University St Paul$452,09490%
Gustavus Adolphus College$444,14590%
Saint John's University$440,26490%
Carleton College$397,85390%
College of St Scholastica Inc$361,10490%
St Marys University of Minnesota$358,32190%
Macalester College$351,47190%
College of Saint Benedict$330,55190%
Bethel University$323,26790%
Minneapolis College of Art and Design$290,32890%
Bethany Lutheran College Inc$241,05990%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Minnesota Private College Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $1,477,866 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAugsburg University: $1,016,823 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSt Catherine University: $539,571 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSt Olaf College: $506,999 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia College Corporation: $504,348 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota: $501,156 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetConcordia University St Paul: $452,094 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGustavus Adolphus College: $444,145 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSaint John's University: $440,264 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCarleton College: $397,853 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of St Scholastica Inc: $361,104 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSt Marys University of Minnesota: $358,321 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMacalester College: $351,471 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of Saint Benedict: $330,551 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBethel University: $323,267 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMinneapolis College of Art and Design: $290,328 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBethany Lutheran College Inc: $241,059 over 9y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Alliss Educational Fo…Boston Scientific Fou…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Ibm International Fou…United Way WorldwideThe Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Alliss Educational Foundation-EquityWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity · Boston Scientific Foundation Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Minnesota Private College Fund

How much does Minnesota Private College Fund give?
Minnesota Private College Fund reported 17 grants totaling $918,864 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Minnesota Private College Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Minnesota Private College Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of St Thomas ($1.5M), Augsburg University ($1.0M), St Catherine University ($540k).
Does Minnesota Private College Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Private College Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity, Boston Scientific Foundation Inc, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Minnesota Private College Fund based?
Minnesota Private College Fund is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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