· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEELE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| OWATONNA GUN CLUB | $60,000 |
| OWATONNA BUSINESS & DEV CENTER | $30,000 |
| STEELE COUNTY FREE FAIR | $22,500 |
| EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR FAMILY UNI | $20,000 |
| OWATONNA EAGLES CLUB 1791 | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,058 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +136% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCOMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY3× · 2020–2022 · $267k · revenue +215%
- LTLITTLE THEATRE OF OWATONNA INC2× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +136% · 47% of their budget
- ECEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR FAMILY UNITY2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- OIOWATONNA ISD 761 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $36k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $33k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Humane treatment of animals through adoption, care, and education
Rescue and adopt domestic animals. Low cost spay and neuter programs. Prevent animal abuse.
To collect, preserve, and interpret the history of winona county.
Preserve & promote Waynesboro history
Oconto area humane society is an open-admission shelter dedicated to providing protection, care and shelter for abandoned and homeless campanion animals
To provide a histroical museum for the pipestone county, minnesota region
Combining leadership and teamwork to provide caring, high quality, efficient, and affordable primary health care for all segments of the community.
To collect, preserve, interpret, and share the history and culture of clay county, minnesota.
Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.
To honor and celebrate our rich theatrical heritage while establishing a sustainable foundation for the years to come.
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STEELE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF OWATONNA INC ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR FAMILY UNITY ↗
- Who funds LETS SMILE ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF OWATONNA INC ↗
- Who funds Steele County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 77 ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Owatonna Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Owatonna Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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