Minnesota · Private foundation
Quetico Superior Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $101k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Quetico Superior Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $101k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $81k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $106k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $86k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $88k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $95k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy | $205,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness | $180,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Waterlegacy | $50,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Voyageurs Conservancy | $30,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Urban Boatbuilders Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ernest C Oberholtzer Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Quetico Superior Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Elmer L & Eleanor J Andersen Foundation · Longview Foundation · The Nash Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Quetico Superior Foundation
- How much does Quetico Superior Foundation give?
- Quetico Superior Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $101,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Quetico Superior Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (92%), Youth Development (4%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are Quetico Superior Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy ($205k), Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness ($180k), Waterlegacy ($50k).
- Does Quetico Superior Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Quetico Superior Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Quetico Superior Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Elmer L & Eleanor J Andersen Foundation.
- Where is Quetico Superior Foundation based?
- Quetico Superior Foundation is based in MN.
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