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Mount Saint Benedict Foundation

Financial development and furtherance of the purposes of the sisters of st. Benedict and similar projects designed to assist their work.

$336k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$335,584
Largest grant, FY2024
$335,584
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Mount Saint Benedict Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23
ReligionOther
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
FY2024still arriving1$336k0%
FY20239$5.7M22%
FY202210$590k20%
FY20219$436k22%
FY20188$457k38%
FY20177$317kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$7.6MReligion$4.0MHealth$2.9MEducation$813kRecreation & Sports$40kHousing & Shelter$25kHuman Services$13k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sisters of St Benedict of Crookston$3,662,1188n/a
Villa St Vincent$2,921,820518%
St Marys Mission Church$278,0007n/a
St Michael Church of Mahnomen$230,7877n/a
Diocese of Crookston$227,4005n/a
Sacred Heart Church & School$143,7245n/a
Sacred Heart Foundation$120,00048%
St Josephs Church$50,0001n/a
St Bernards Church$46,1004n/a
Cathedral of Immaculate Conception$32,6385n/a
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All grantees of Mount Saint Benedict Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sisters of St Benedict of Crookston$3,662,1188n/a
Villa St Vincent$2,921,820518%
St Marys Mission Church$278,0007n/a
St Michael Church of Mahnomen$230,7877n/a
Diocese of Crookston$227,4005n/a
Sacred Heart Church & School$143,7245n/a
Sacred Heart Foundation$120,00048%
St Josephs Church$50,0001n/a
St Bernards Church$46,1004n/a
Cathedral of Immaculate Conception$32,6385n/a
Care and Share Inc$27,98045%
St Ann's Catholic Church$25,0001n/a
Assumption Abbey Inc$20,6361n/a
St Thomas Aquines Newman Center$20,0003n/a
St Theodores Church Ponsford$10,0001n/a
Sunrise Center for Children and Families$9,6002n/a

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.

The Diocese of Crookston Catholic Community FoundationMN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Diocese of Crookston Catholic Community Foundation · Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe) · Northwest Minnesota Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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Find your warmest path to Mount Saint Benedict Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Mount Saint Benedict Foundation

How much does Mount Saint Benedict Foundation give?
Mount Saint Benedict Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $335,584 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mount Saint Benedict Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (49%), Religion (26%), Health (19%).
Who are Mount Saint Benedict Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sisters of St Benedict of Crookston ($3.7M), Villa St Vincent ($2.9M), St Marys Mission Church ($278k).
Does Mount Saint Benedict Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mount Saint Benedict Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Diocese of Crookston Catholic Community Foundation, Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe), Northwest Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Mount Saint Benedict Foundation based?
Mount Saint Benedict Foundation 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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