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Onan Family 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.

$298k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
32
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 32
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$4.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Onan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY2025still arriving30$298k7%
FY202432$274k22%
FY202328$263k11%
FY202232$274k28%
FY202124$233k17%
FY202027$233kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$527kHuman Services$351kYouth Development$181kRecreation & Sports$126kArts & Culture$112kHealth$91kAnimals$60kReligion$57kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Onan Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
People Responding in Social Ministry$90,00060%
Hopekids Inc$70,00060%
Urban Boatbuilders Inc$66,00061%
Friends & Co$60,00062%
Can Do Canines$55,00040%
Child Loss Foundation$55,00061%
Vasaloppet Inc$52,00069%
Northwood Technical College Foundation Inc$52,00028%
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery$51,00060%
Wayzata Sailing Foundation$50,00062%
Salvation Army$40,0004n/a
Youth Ministry Consultants$32,50055%
Boys' Club of Duluth$30,00031%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts$27,00060%
Dunwoody College of Technology$26,00010%
The Minnesota Opera$21,00060%
Christ Community Lutheran School$20,0001n/a
Minnesota Orchestral Association$17,50050%
Stone Soup Cafe Inc$17,5003n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of the North$15,00020%
Cactus Foothills Little League$15,00016%
Walker Art Center$14,00060%
Lakes Area Habitat for Humanity$14,00021%
The Alano Society of Minneapolis Inc$11,00042%
Wayzata Community Church$10,0002n/a
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners$10,00010%
Minnesota Recovery Connection$10,00011%
Duluth Area Family YMCA$10,00010%
Minneapolis Sailing Center$9,00021%
Charities Review Council$6,00060%
Minnesota Holiday Light Show Enthusiasts$5,0001n/a
Plymouth Crime and Fire Prevention Fund$5,0001n/a
Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives$5,00010%
Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($598k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Onan Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPeople Responding in Social Ministry: $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHopekids Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Boatbuilders Inc: $66,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFriends & Co: $60,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCan Do Canines: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChild Loss Foundation: $55,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetVasaloppet Inc: $52,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetNorthwood Technical College Foundation Inc: $52,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetGreater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $51,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWayzata Sailing Foundation: $50,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetYouth Ministry Consultants: $32,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetBoys' Club of Duluth: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMinneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDunwoody College of Technology: $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Orchestral Association: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the North: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCactus Foothills Little League: $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetWalker Art Center: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLakes Area Habitat for Humanity: $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Alano Society of Minneapolis Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetInterfaith Outreach and Community Partners: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Recovery Connection: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDuluth Area Family YMCA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinneapolis Sailing Center: $9,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCharities Review Council: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 28.

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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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN23.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Communitygiving · Hardenbergh Foundation · Target Foundation · The K 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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How do I get to Onan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Onan Family 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 Onan Family Foundation

How much does Onan Family Foundation give?
Onan Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $297,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Onan Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (22%), Youth Development (11%).
Who are Onan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: People Responding in Social Ministry ($90k), Hopekids Inc ($70k), Urban Boatbuilders Inc ($66k).
Does Onan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Onan Family 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 Onan Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
Where is Onan Family Foundation based?
Onan Family 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 53 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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