Minnesota · Private foundation
Olga B Hart Education Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $220k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Olga B Hart Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 17 | $220k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $220k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $230k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $230k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $198k | 65% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $207k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $247k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $247k | 11% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luther Seminary | $246,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Saint Paul Public Schools | $104,000 | 9 | n/a |
| South St Paul Educational Foundation | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Udac Inc | $40,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Ebenezer Society Foundation | $36,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Olaf College | $32,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Concordia Lutheran Church | $31,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Southwest High School Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Camp Omega Inc | $29,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Ascension Catholic Grade School | $28,250 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luther Seminary | $246,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Saint Paul Public Schools | $104,000 | 9 | n/a |
| South St Paul Educational Foundation | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Udac Inc | $40,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Ebenezer Society Foundation | $36,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Olaf College | $32,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Concordia Lutheran Church | $31,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Southwest High School Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Camp Omega Inc | $29,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Ascension Catholic Grade School | $28,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Wartburg Theological Seminary | $27,250 | 7 | n/a |
| Peace in Christ Lutheran Church | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Choice Unlimited | $19,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $13,500 | 4 | 0% |
| University of St Thomas | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Msl Northland of Duluth Minnesota | $6,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Minnehaha Academy | $2,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Normandale Housing Corporation | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Olga B Hart Education Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
About Olga B Hart Education Foundation
- How much does Olga B Hart Education Foundation give?
- Olga B Hart Education Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $220,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Olga B Hart Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Religion (23%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
- Who are Olga B Hart Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Luther Seminary ($246k), Saint Paul Public Schools ($104k), South St Paul Educational Foundation ($60k).
- Does Olga B Hart Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Olga B Hart Education Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Olga B Hart Education Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation.
- Where is Olga B Hart Education Foundation based?
- Olga B Hart Education Foundation is based in MN.
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