Minnesota · Private foundation
Piper Sandler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 83
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,078,802
- Organizations funded a year
- 83 to 136
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Piper Sandler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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 | 59 | $4.5M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 83 | $4.5M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 101 | $3.4M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 104 | $3.9M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 123 | $3.5M | 55% |
| FY2020 | 136 | $2.4M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwood Project | $708,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Studentsponsor Partners Inc | $670,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Posse Foundation Inc | $593,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chinquapin Preparatory School | $585,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Wallin Education Partners | $552,567 | 6 | 2% |
| Cristo Rey New York High School | $465,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Bestprep | $445,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Streetwise Partners Inc | $433,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School of Houston Inc | $430,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Scholars of Finance | $429,000 | 6 | 5% |
Show all 216 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 98 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Piper Sandler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 195 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Sit Investment Associates Foundation · The K Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust
How this is measured
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About Piper Sandler Foundation
- How much does Piper Sandler Foundation give?
- Piper Sandler Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $4,482,177 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 83 and 136 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Piper Sandler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (53%), Education (29%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are Piper Sandler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Greenwood Project ($708k), Studentsponsor Partners Inc ($670k), The Posse Foundation Inc ($593k).
- Does Piper Sandler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Piper Sandler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Piper Sandler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation.
- Where is Piper Sandler Foundation based?
- Piper Sandler Foundation is based in MN.
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