How much does Prospect Creek Foundation give?

Prospect Creek Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $4,858,565 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 78 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Prospect Creek Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Philanthropy (24%), Health (21%).

Who are Prospect Creek Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Great Mn Schools ($4.5M), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($2.8M), Summit Academy Oic ($1.7M).

Does Prospect Creek Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Prospect Creek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Prospect Creek Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.

Where is Prospect Creek Foundation based?

Prospect Creek Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Prospect Creek Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 20
Grants FY2024: 25
Organizations funded FY2023: 24%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $3,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 25 to 78; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $25M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Prospect Creek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	20	$4.9M	10%
FY2023	25	$3.5M	24%
FY2022	44	$1.5M	14%
FY2021	57	$1.9M	21%
FY2020	78	$2.8M	n/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.

Education$6.6MPhilanthropy$3.5MHealth$3.0MArts & Culture$960kCrime & Legal$102kEnvironment$70kCivil Rights$50kHuman Services$32kOther$0

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Great Mn Schools	$4,526,115	5	33%
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$2,800,000	2	0%
Summit Academy Oic	$1,740,000	5	3%
Guthrie Theater Foundation	$325,000	3	0%
Walker Art Center	$254,114	2	2%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$151,065	4	0%
Ole Health Foundation	$110,000	1	4%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts	$100,000	5	0%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence	$100,000	1	1%
The Blake School	$70,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Prospect Creek Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Great Mn Schools	$4,526,115	5	33%
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$2,800,000	2	0%
Summit Academy Oic	$1,740,000	5	3%
Guthrie Theater Foundation	$325,000	3	0%
Walker Art Center	$254,114	2	2%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$151,065	4	0%
Ole Health Foundation	$110,000	1	4%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts	$100,000	5	0%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence	$100,000	1	1%
The Blake School	$70,000	4	0%
Minnesota Orchestral Association	$60,000	4	0%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence	$50,000	1	1%
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
St Helena Hospital Foundation	$40,000	1	1%
Los Angeles Leadership Foundation	$30,000	1	5%
The Minnesota Opera	$25,000	5	0%
Napa County Land Trust	$25,000	2	0%
Science Museum of Minnesota	$20,000	4	0%
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society	$20,000	4	0%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media	$20,000	5	0%
The Thacher School Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Minnetonka Center for the Arts	$12,500	5	0%
Twin Cities Public Television Inc	$12,000	4	0%
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery	$11,000	4	0%
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation	$11,000	4	0%
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation	$10,000	2	0%
St Helena Community Food Pantry	$10,000	1	14%
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums	$10,000	1	0%
Minnesota Historical Society	$10,000	5	0%
Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Graywolf Press	$8,000	5	0%
Etc Foundation	$7,500	1	3%
Highpoint Center for Printmaking	$6,000	3	0%
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners	$6,000	3	0%
National Park Foundation	$6,000	3	0%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School	$5,000	1	n/a
Academic Freedom Alliance	$5,000	1	1%
Northern Clay Center	$5,000	3	0%
Tubman	$4,000	2	0%
Lake Minnetonka Association	$4,000	3	1%
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts	$4,000	2	0%
Summer Search	$4,000	2	0%
Friends of the Hennepin County Library	$4,000	2	0%
Theater Latte Da	$4,000	2	0%
Trailblazer Foundation	$4,000	3	1%
Minnesota Children's Museum	$3,000	2	0%
Womenventure	$3,000	3	0%
Berkeley Repertory Theatre	$3,000	1	0%
Parks & Trails Council of Minnesota	$3,000	3	0%
Minnesota Land Trust	$3,000	3	0%
Second Harvest Heartland	$2,500	3	0%
Minneapolis Parks Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc	$2,000	1	0%
The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust	$2,000	2	0%
Page Education Foundation	$2,000	2	0%
Upvalley Family Centers of Napa County	$2,000	1	0%
Gladstone Foundation	$2,000	1	0%
St Helena Farmers Market	$2,000	2	n/a
Project for Pride in Living Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Ukiah Junior Academy	$1,000	2	n/a
Kipp Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Society of Architectural Historians	$1,000	1	0%
Save the Lakes	$1,000	1	n/a
Macphail Center for Music	$1,000	1	0%
Outward Bound California	$1,000	1	0%
Aussie Rescue of Minnesota Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Women Candidate Development Coalition	$1,000	1	2%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Napa Police Officers Association	$500	1	0%
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.

Prospect Creek Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 65.

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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.

Xcel Energy FoundationMN27.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Frances & Frank Wilkinson Foundation · The Crosswols Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Longview Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · William Boss Foundation · Greystone 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 Prospect Creek Foundation

How much does Prospect Creek Foundation give?: Prospect Creek Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $4,858,565 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 78 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Prospect Creek Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Philanthropy (24%), Health (21%).
Who are Prospect Creek Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Great Mn Schools ($4.5M), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($2.8M), Summit Academy Oic ($1.7M).
Does Prospect Creek Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Prospect Creek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Prospect Creek Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.
Where is Prospect Creek Foundation based?: Prospect Creek Foundation is based in MN.