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Owatonna Foundation Inc

To provide money grants to non-profit agencies located in steele county to acquire property & equipment and to provide scholarships to local high school students.

$393k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$357k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$22,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Owatonna Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
AnimalsArts & CultureOther
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 arriving9$357k78%
FY20237$256k57%
FY20227$118k57%
FY20215$344k60%
FY202010$427kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$441kEducation$250kAnimals$210kArts & Culture$146kRecreation & Sports$97kEnvironment$75kFood & Nutrition$66kScience & Tech$63kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Pathways of Steele County$267,49238%
Steele County Humane Society$200,000253%
Little Theatre of Owatonna Inc$100,000247%
Exchange Club Center for Family Unity$60,000217%
Lets Smile$45,13528%
Moonlighters Exchange Club Corp$40,0002n/a
Hospitality House of Owatonna Inc$18,75114%
Steele County Historical Society$16,33821%
American Legion Post 77$13,88816%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($739k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Owatonna Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Pathways of Steele County: $267,492 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetSteele County Humane Society: $200,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetLittle Theatre of Owatonna Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetExchange Club Center for Family Unity: $60,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLets Smile: $45,135 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetHospitality House of Owatonna Inc: $18,751 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSteele County Historical Society: $16,338 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 77: $13,888 over 1y, 5.6% 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 8.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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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About Owatonna Foundation Inc

How much does Owatonna Foundation Inc give?
Owatonna Foundation Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $356,558, out of $393,058 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Owatonna Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Education (17%), Animals (14%).
Who are Owatonna Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Community Pathways of Steele County ($267k), Steele County Humane Society ($200k), Little Theatre of Owatonna Inc ($100k).
Does Owatonna Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Owatonna Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Owatonna Foundation Inc based?
Owatonna Foundation Inc 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 28 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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