· Private foundation
Piper Sandler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORPORATE MATCH | $2,078,802 |
| STUDENT SPONSOR PARTNERS INC | $260,000 |
| GREENWOOD PROJECT | $204,000 |
| WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS | $197,075 |
| DOUGHERTY FAMILY COLLEGE UNIVERSITY ST THOMAS | $155,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL TWIN CITIES | $150,300 |
| CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| NJ LEEP INC | $150,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF HOUSTON | $150,000 |
| CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $120,000 |
| THE POSSE FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| MINDS MATTER BAY AREA | $110,000 |
| SCHOLARS OF FINANCE | $108,000 |
| STREETWISE PARTNERS | $100,000 |
| DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | $75,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
133 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 81 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GPGREENWOOD PROJECT5× · 2020–2025 · $708k · revenue +84%
- SPSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $670k · revenue +35%
- CPCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $585k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- LSLake Street Councilone grant, 2020 · $114k · revenue -85%
- CCCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolisone grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue -19%
- CRCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL (CRNYHS)one grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
How this is measured
206 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 206 of the 316 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GREENWOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BESTPREP ↗
- Who funds STREETWISE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARS OF FINANCE ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds NJ LEEP Inc ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds Right Moves for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds VIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWN ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS DOWNTOWN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Piper Sandler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Piper Sandler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc: 29% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Union City Music Project Inc: 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Venice Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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