How much does Northfield Shares give?

Northfield Shares reported 16 itemized grants totaling $829,165, out of $1,049,325 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Northfield Shares fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Religion (13%), International (10%).

Who are Northfield Shares's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Carleton College ($1.4M), St Olaf College ($510k), Doane University ($489k).

Does Northfield Shares fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Northfield Shares?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The American Center for Philanthropy Inc, Minnesota Community Foundation.

Where is Northfield Shares based?

Northfield Shares is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Northfield Shares

NORTHFIELD SHARES seeks to sustain and transform the northfield community by advancing philanthropy, inspiring volunteerism and promoting collaborative leadership.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 16
Itemized grants FY2024: 13
Organizations funded FY2023: 15%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $829k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $24,329
Largest grant, FY2024: $137,100
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 17; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Northfield Shares funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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	15	$817k	47%
FY2023	13	$156k	15%
FY2022	11	$137k	9%
FY2021	17	$2.1M	65%
FY2020	10	$181k	60%
FY2019	5	$71k	20%
FY2018	8	$1.2M	50%
FY2017	6	$262k	n/a

97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.8MReligion$679kInternational$499kHuman Services$360kYouth Development$206kArts & Culture$189kEnvironment$87kPhilanthropy$82kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Carleton College	$1,363,640	5	0%
St Olaf College	$510,090	2	0%
Doane University	$488,579	1	1%
American Friends of Asian Rural Institute Inc	$488,579	1	n/a
First United Church of Christ	$488,579	1	n/a
Northfield Senior Citizens Inc FiftyNorth	$241,797	8	10%
Northfield Healthy Community Initiative	$169,589	8	1%
Center for Courage & Renewal	$150,000	5	12%
Community Action Center Inc	$145,371	7	3%
The College of Wooster	$137,100	1	0%

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All grantees of Northfield Shares by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Carleton College	$1,363,640	5	0%
St Olaf College	$510,090	2	0%
Doane University	$488,579	1	1%
American Friends of Asian Rural Institute Inc	$488,579	1	n/a
First United Church of Christ	$488,579	1	n/a
Northfield Senior Citizens Inc FiftyNorth	$241,797	8	10%
Northfield Healthy Community Initiative	$169,589	8	1%
Center for Courage & Renewal	$150,000	5	12%
Community Action Center Inc	$145,371	7	3%
The College of Wooster	$137,100	1	0%
Northfield United Methodist	$137,100	1	n/a
Eastman School of Music	$82,260	1	n/a
University of Minnesota Foundation	$67,038	1	0%
Great River Shakespeare Festival	$54,400	4	2%
St Johns Lutheran Church	$53,000	4	n/a
HealthFinders Collaborative Inc	$51,500	5	1%
Rotary Club of Northfield	$50,000	1	27%
Clean River Partners Inc	$34,850	4	2%
Rice County Neighbors United	$29,000	3	n/a
Northfield Arts Guild	$21,000	2	2%
Dam Preservation Corp	$20,800	1	n/a
Northfield Area Family YMCA	$19,680	2	1%
Valley Grove Preservation Society	$16,500	1	n/a
Northfield Soccer Association	$15,500	1	50%
St Dominic Catholic Church	$14,908	2	n/a
Northfield Public Schools	$11,000	1	n/a
Project Friendship Inc	$10,000	1	9%
Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us	$10,000	1	0%
Filmnorth	$8,000	1	0%
Matter	$8,000	1	0%
Sharing Our Roots	$8,000	1	1%
Defeat of Jesse James Days Committee Inc	$7,000	1	3%
Boeckman Middle School	$6,000	1	n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.

Northfield Shares supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 22.

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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 Minneapolis FoundationMN25.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The American Center for Philanthropy Inc · Minnesota Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Rice County Area United Way · Youthprise · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc · Allina Health System · The McKnight Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Otto Bremer Trust

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 Northfield Shares

How much does Northfield Shares give?: Northfield Shares reported 16 itemized grants totaling $829,165, out of $1,049,325 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Northfield Shares fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Religion (13%), International (10%).
Who are Northfield Shares's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Carleton College ($1.4M), St Olaf College ($510k), Doane University ($489k).
Does Northfield Shares fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northfield Shares?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The American Center for Philanthropy Inc, Minnesota Community Foundation.
Where is Northfield Shares based?: Northfield Shares is based in MN.