Minnesota · Private foundation
Osilas 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $585,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Osilas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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 | 33 | $1.4M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $1.4M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $1.4M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $1.6M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $1.2M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Bear Lake Area Historical Society | $2,471,000 | 6 | 58% |
| White Bear Center for the Arts | $1,699,500 | 6 | 25% |
| Children's Performing Arts | $865,000 | 6 | 64% |
| Thomas Irvine Dodge Nature Center | $615,250 | 4 | 5% |
| St Catherine University | $142,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Liberty Classical Academy | $140,000 | 2 | 1% |
| White Bear Area Food Shelf | $132,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Century College Foundation | $130,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Stages Theatre Company Inc | $123,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Minnesota News Media Institute Inc | $100,600 | 3 | 64% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($806k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Osilas Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Dellwood Foundation Inc · William Boss Foundation
How this is measured
About Osilas Foundation
- How much does Osilas Foundation give?
- Osilas Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $1,757,315 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Osilas Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (67%), Philanthropy (13%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Osilas Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: White Bear Lake Area Historical Society ($2.5M), White Bear Center for the Arts ($1.7M), Children's Performing Arts ($865k).
- Does Osilas Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Osilas 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 Osilas Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Nicholson Family Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Osilas Foundation based?
- Osilas Foundation is based in MN.
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