How much does Mortenson Family Foundation give?

Mortenson Family Foundation reported 262 grants totaling $6,205,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 119 and 213 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Mortenson Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), International (9%), Human Services (9%).

Who are Mortenson Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of Minnesota Foundation ($7.6M), Regents of the University of Colorado ($1.2M), World Savvy ($1.1M).

Does Mortenson Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mortenson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mortenson Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fr Bigelow Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

Where is Mortenson Family Foundation based?

Mortenson Family Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Mortenson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 262
Grants FY2024: 198
Organizations funded FY2023: 25%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 119 to 213; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 18
Total assets, FY2024: $142M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Mortenson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	193	$6.1M	21%
FY2023	198	$6.3M	25%
FY2022	213	$8.6M	31%
FY2021	162	$9.4M	28%
FY2020	140	$4.9M	31%
FY2019	119	$3.6M	n/a

99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$15MInternational$3.7MHuman Services$3.7MEnvironment$3.6MCommunity Improvement$2.9MCivil Rights$2.1MFood & Nutrition$1.5MYouth Development$1.5MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Minnesota Foundation	$7,596,000	6	1%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$1,200,000	6	n/a
World Savvy	$1,072,500	6	29%
Nexus Community Partners	$1,060,000	3	30%
Northside Achievement Zone	$815,500	6	2%
Coalition of Asian American Leaders	$751,750	5	34%
Macalester College	$700,000	6	0%
Dunwoody College of Technology	$550,000	2	1%
African American Leadership Forum	$459,750	5	40%
Thousand Currents	$433,700	6	1%

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All grantees of Mortenson Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Minnesota Foundation	$7,596,000	6	1%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$1,200,000	6	n/a
World Savvy	$1,072,500	6	29%
Nexus Community Partners	$1,060,000	3	30%
Northside Achievement Zone	$815,500	6	2%
Coalition of Asian American Leaders	$751,750	5	34%
Macalester College	$700,000	6	0%
Dunwoody College of Technology	$550,000	2	1%
African American Leadership Forum	$459,750	5	40%
Thousand Currents	$433,700	6	1%
Way to Grow	$385,000	6	2%
Onevillage Partners	$371,200	6	12%
University of Wisconsin Foundation	$370,000	5	0%
The Banyan Foundation	$320,000	4	5%
Amherst H Wilder Foundation	$305,000	6	0%
The Family Partnership	$290,000	6	1%
Fabretto Children's Foundation Inc	$278,200	5	2%
Mississippi Park Connection	$255,500	6	5%
The Tiwahe Foundation	$236,750	5	22%
Dream of Wild Health	$235,500	3	4%
Project for Pride in Living Inc	$235,000	6	0%
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc	$232,000	6	3%
Root Capital Inc	$231,900	6	0%
Guatemalan Tomorrow Fund Inc	$226,900	6	9%
Centro Tyrone Guzman	$222,500	6	2%
Common Hope	$212,420	6	1%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North	$210,000	6	0%
Urban Roots Mn	$205,000	4	5%
Cultural Wellness Center	$203,000	6	2%
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership	$200,000	5	12%
Allina Health Foundation	$200,000	2	0%
Wellshare International	$194,100	6	2%
Southside Family Nurturing Center	$190,000	6	4%
Groundswell International Inc	$189,500	5	2%
Neighborhood House	$185,000	6	0%
Northside Residents Redevelopment Council Inc	$183,700	3	7%
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery	$181,500	6	2%
Washburn Center for Children	$180,000	6	0%
Baby's Space a Place to Grow	$180,000	6	2%
Friends Of Raising The Village Incorporated	$178,700	6	3%
Eastern Congo Initiative	$175,000	2	3%
Climate Generation	$172,000	6	6%
Hallie Q Brown Community Center Inc	$169,000	5	2%
Keystone Community Services	$165,000	5	0%
Friends of the Mississippi River	$164,500	6	3%
Ed Allies	$160,000	5	4%
The Good Acre	$160,000	3	4%
Land Stewardship Project	$160,000	4	2%
Mama Hope Inc	$159,700	6	17%
Friends of the Hennepin County Library	$156,000	3	2%
Breakthrough Twin Cities	$155,000	4	3%
Latinolead Inc	$150,500	3	n/a
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media	$146,000	6	0%
Hamakua Health Center Inc	$145,000	3	1%
Hmong American Farmers Association	$144,300	4	3%
Minnesota Land Trust	$142,000	5	0%
Plymouth Christian Youth Center	$140,000	6	2%
Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated	$138,000	3	8%
Hospitality House Youth Development	$137,000	6	9%
Latino Economic Development Center	$136,250	4	1%
East Phillips Neighborhood Institute	$135,000	2	14%
Schwarz Africa Fund	$134,000	2	57%
We Win Institute Inc	$130,000	5	5%
African Economic Development Solutions	$128,250	4	1%
Hope Community Inc	$128,000	3	2%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$125,000	2	0%
Children's Defense Fund	$124,500	5	0%
Appetite for Change Inc	$123,000	5	3%
Mi Casa MN	$120,000	2	20%
Voices for Racial Justice	$120,000	5	4%
People Serving People Inc	$118,000	3	0%
Alight	$117,000	5	0%
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$117,000	4	0%
Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Envi	$116,600	4	11%
Junior Achievement North	$116,000	6	1%
Youthprise	$115,000	4	1%
Sol of the Cities	$115,000	2	29%
Reading Partners	$115,000	4	0%
Commusication	$115,000	4	9%
Seeds For Progress Foundation Inc	$113,800	6	4%
African Development Center	$113,250	4	1%
Isuroon	$112,500	4	3%
Juxtaposition Arts Inc	$111,500	5	2%
Rainbow Research Inc	$110,000	2	8%
The Sanneh Foundation	$110,000	4	1%
Partners in Food Solutions	$108,600	4	1%
Hiawatha Academies	$105,000	5	0%
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy	$104,000	5	1%
Mn350	$103,500	4	6%
KIPP Minnesota	$100,000	4	0%
The Museum of Russian Art	$100,000	1	6%
The Chain Collaborative	$99,800	6	8%
Metro Blooms	$97,000	6	3%
Northside Boxing Club Inc	$95,000	4	7%
Serveminnesota	$95,000	4	0%
Jeremiah Program	$95,000	4	0%
Kinnickinnic River Land Trust Inc	$92,000	4	12%
Prairie Island Indian Community	$90,000	2	n/a
Agua Para la Vida	$89,990	4	20%
Food Group Minnesota Inc The	$87,000	3	1%
Propel Nonprofits	$85,000	2	1%
Land Bank Twin Cities Inc	$84,000	4	0%
Neighborhood Healthsource	$80,000	1	1%
Hmong American Partnership	$80,000	2	0%
Somali Youth and Family Development Center	$80,000	2	32%
Think Small	$80,000	4	0%
Karen Organization of Minnesota	$75,000	3	1%
Athletes Committed to Educating Students	$75,000	4	3%
Education Evolving	$75,000	3	2%
The Blake School	$75,000	4	0%
International Institute of Minnesota	$75,000	6	1%
New Vision Foundation	$75,000	4	4%
30000 Feet	$75,000	2	8%
Black Men Teach	$73,500	4	1%
Honor the Earth	$73,000	1	n/a
Educate2Envision International Inc	$70,000	3	11%
Philadelphia Community Farm Inc	$70,000	2	12%
Pillsbury United Communities	$70,000	3	0%
Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute	$70,000	1	7%
Clean River Partners Inc	$68,000	3	5%
Family Tree Inc	$67,500	3	1%
Wild Rivers Conservancy of the St Croix & Namekagon	$66,000	2	3%
Unidos Minnesota Education Fund	$65,000	1	5%
Second Harvest Heartland	$64,000	5	0%
Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches	$63,500	3	2%
Friends of the Future	$60,000	2	1%
Minnesota African Womens Association	$60,000	2	6%
Augsburg University	$57,000	4	0%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$56,500	3	0%
Great Mn Schools	$55,000	4	1%
Irreducible Grace Foundation	$55,000	2	6%
Mavuno	$54,740	3	n/a
Our Turn Inc	$52,000	2	1%
Minnesota Zoo Foundation	$50,500	5	0%
Cantus	$50,500	6	1%
Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities	$50,000	1	2%
Twin Cities Rise	$50,000	6	1%
Bancroft Neighborhood Association	$50,000	1	19%
Teatro del Pueblo Inc	$50,000	3	10%
Belwin Conservancy	$50,000	2	1%
Minneapolis Parks Foundation	$50,000	1	1%
Minneapolis College of Art and Design	$50,000	2	0%
Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul	$50,000	3	n/a
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research	$49,000	2	3%
Ka Joog Nonprofit Organization	$45,000	3	2%
Fortis Capital	$45,000	2	2%
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness	$42,000	3	1%
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation	$40,000	1	1%
Center for Earth Energy and Democracy	$40,000	1	2%
African Collaborative Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Natik Esperanza	$40,000	1	13%
Minnesota Orchestral Association	$38,500	5	0%
Ujamaa Place	$35,500	6	0%
Lower Phalen Creek Project	$35,000	2	1%
Minnesota Parent Union	$35,000	2	4%
Advancing Equity Coalition	$35,000	2	3%
Great River Greening	$33,500	3	1%
The University of Puget Sound	$33,000	5	0%
Northside Economic Opportunity Network	$32,750	1	0%
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness	$31,000	3	1%
Wilderness Inquiry Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Owamniyomni Okhodayapi	$30,000	1	0%
Children's Heartlink	$30,000	6	0%
Upper Mississippi Academy	$30,000	3	0%
Seattle Pacific University	$30,000	6	0%
Youth Leadership Initiative	$30,000	1	10%
Copal Communidades Organizando El Poder y la A	$30,000	1	5%
Urban Strategies Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Legal Rights Center	$30,000	1	1%
826 Msp	$30,000	1	6%
Lake Street Council	$30,000	2	2%
Smart North	$30,000	1	4%
Sahan Journal	$29,000	4	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities	$29,000	6	0%
Urban Bird Collective	$29,000	1	12%
Macphail Center for Music	$29,000	6	0%
Minnesota Environmental Partnership	$28,000	3	3%
Microgrants	$26,000	2	2%
Maui United Way	$25,000	1	2%
East Side Learning Center	$25,000	2	2%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Friends of the Library of Hawaii	$25,000	1	2%
TEECH - Teaching for Equity Empowerment	$25,000	2	14%
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Alongside Network	$25,000	3	13%
One2One	$24,000	4	2%
Pilot Knob Preservation Association Inc	$24,000	2	n/a
Minnesota Historical Society	$22,500	5	0%
Neighborhood Development Alliance Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Chops Inc	$20,000	1	3%
Social Venture Partners Minnesota	$20,000	1	8%
Voyageurs Conservancy	$20,000	2	3%
Tower-Soudan Historical Society	$20,000	3	3%
Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance	$20,000	2	5%
Pueblo a Pueblo	$20,000	1	10%
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity	$20,000	2	0%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc	$19,000	2	0%
Minnesota Council on Foundations	$19,000	4	0%
Bridging Inc	$19,000	6	0%
YWCA of Minneapolis	$18,000	3	0%
MN Renewable Now	$17,500	4	n/a
Cornerstone	$17,000	6	2%
Ripple Effect Images	$15,000	6	1%
Mni Sota Fund	$15,000	1	1%
Takeaction Mn Education Fund	$15,000	1	0%
Special Olympics Minnesota Inc	$15,000	2	0%
Minnesota Trout Unlimited	$15,000	1	1%
Bolder Options	$15,000	3	0%
Friends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa	$13,500	3	0%
Silicon Valley Urban Debate League	$12,500	3	1%
Alia	$12,500	4	0%
North Star Community Rowing	$12,500	5	6%
Citizens League	$11,500	4	0%
Walker West Music Academy	$11,000	2	0%
The Calvary Group	$10,500	1	n/a
Student Clubs of HBS Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Monarch Joint Venture	$10,000	1	1%
Rural Renewable Energy Alliance	$10,000	4	2%
Harambee Sports Club	$10,000	3	n/a
Hamakua Youth Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	4%
MIGIZI Communications Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Community Stabilization Project	$10,000	2	n/a
Project Diva	$10,000	2	2%
St Cloud State University Foundation Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Settled Incorporated	$9,500	4	1%
Equal Justice Initiative	$8,000	3	0%
Robbinsdale Schools Isd 281	$8,000	1	n/a
All Square	$7,500	1	0%
Project Success	$7,500	3	0%
Family Housing Fund	$7,500	3	0%
Center School Inc	$7,500	2	1%
Equaspace	$7,500	1	1%
Benilde St Margarets High School	$7,500	2	n/a
Minnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund	$6,000	6	0%
The History Theatre Inc	$6,000	2	0%
Minneapolis Nature Preschool	$5,500	2	1%
Heritage Youth Sports Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	5%
Little Earth Residents Association Inc	$5,000	1	0%
YouthCARE	$5,000	1	n/a
Northeastern University	$5,000	1	0%
Maia	$5,000	1	0%
The Brandlab	$5,000	1	0%
Sickle Cell Support Services	$5,000	2	n/a
Ultimate Peace Inc	$5,000	1	1%
West Broadway Business and Area Coalition	$5,000	1	0%
Educate Tanzania Inc	$5,000	1	6%
The Cookie Cart	$5,000	2	0%
New Leaders Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Springboard for the Arts	$5,000	1	0%
Children's Health Care	$5,000	1	0%
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc	$5,000	2	0%
Sharing Our Roots	$5,000	1	1%
Westside Boosters Youth Athletic Club Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Freshwater Society	$5,000	1	0%
Midwest Farmers of Color Collective	$4,500	1	n/a
Esperanza United	$4,000	1	0%
Last Mile Health	$4,000	1	0%
Academias la Paz	$3,000	1	0%
Hmong Early Childhood Coalition	$3,000	1	n/a
The Carbon Underground	$2,500	1	1%
Green Card Voices	$2,500	1	0%
Thomas Irvine Dodge Nature Center	$2,500	1	0%
Makoce Ikikcupi	$2,500	1	1%
Zero Abuse Project	$2,500	1	0%
Indigenous Environmental Network	$2,500	1	0%
Duke University	$2,500	1	0%
Bridge House	$2,500	1	0%
Wallin Education Partners	$2,500	1	0%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services	$2,500	1	0%
Monitors Foundation	$2,500	1	9%
Smile Network International	$2,500	1	0%
In Black Ink	$2,000	1	1%
Innercity Tennis Foundation	$2,000	1	0%
Richfield Foundation	$2,000	1	n/a
Lasting Friends Inc	$2,000	1	1%
Filmnorth	$2,000	1	0%
Angelica Cantanti Youth Choirs	$2,000	1	1%
Christian Cupboard Emergency Food Shelf Dba Open Cupboard	$2,000	1	0%
Minnesota Association for Environmental Education	$2,000	1	3%
Commonbond Communities	$1,500	1	0%
North American Association for Environmental Educa	$1,000	1	0%
Sostenica Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Liberia Career Pathways	$1,000	1	14%
Hawaii Wildlife Center	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.

Mortenson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 200.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Fr Bigelow FoundationMN146.5× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Youthprise · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Target Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · The Bush Foundation · Marbrook Foundation

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 Mortenson Family Foundation

How much does Mortenson Family Foundation give?: Mortenson Family Foundation reported 262 grants totaling $6,205,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 119 and 213 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Mortenson Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), International (9%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Mortenson Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of Minnesota Foundation ($7.6M), Regents of the University of Colorado ($1.2M), World Savvy ($1.1M).
Does Mortenson Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mortenson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mortenson Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fr Bigelow Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Mortenson Family Foundation based?: Mortenson Family Foundation is based in MN.