Minnesota · Public charity
Minnesota Wild Foundation
The MINNESOTA WILD FOUNDATION exists to support the game of hockey and improve the lives of families in the state of hockey through special events, auctions, and the sales of player autographed items.
- $485k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $388k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Minnesota Wild Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | $363k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $469k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $389k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $252k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $139k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $340k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $413k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $405k | 29% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Health Care Foundation | $1,208,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Minnesota Hockey Inc | $685,877 | 9 | 4% |
| Dinomights | $440,000 | 9 | 16% |
| Johnson Como North St Paul Hockey Association | $128,636 | 5 | 7% |
| Minnesota State High School Coaches Assn | $102,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Des Moines Youth Hockey Association Inc | $75,500 | 7 | 1% |
| United Heroes League | $70,970 | 5 | 1% |
| Crescent Cove | $65,500 | 3 | 2% |
| St Paul Capitals Hockey Association | $50,906 | 4 | 2% |
| Camp Cambria Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 14% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Minnesota Wild Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Tradition Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Fastbreak Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Minnesota Wild Foundation
- How much does Minnesota Wild Foundation give?
- Minnesota Wild Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $388,000, out of $484,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Minnesota Wild Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Recreation & Sports (39%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Minnesota Wild Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children's Health Care Foundation ($1.2M), Minnesota Hockey Inc ($686k), Dinomights ($440k).
- Does Minnesota Wild Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Wild Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Minnesota Wild Foundation based?
- Minnesota Wild Foundation is based in MN.
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