South Dakota · Private foundation
Raft Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $260,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Raft Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 31 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $1.6M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $1.6M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $1.4M | 4% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $1.5M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $1.4M | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $2,070,000 | 9 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $910,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $880,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Many Rivers Montessori | $820,500 | 8 | 8% |
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $450,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Fund of Cumberland Inc | $450,000 | 9 | 67% |
| Minnesota Historical Society | $450,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $410,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of the Hennepin County Library | $270,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Ramsey County Library Friends | $270,000 | 9 | 13% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Raft Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Lahti Family Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Raft Charitable Foundation
- How much does Raft Charitable Foundation give?
- Raft Charitable Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $1,630,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Raft Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Raft Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ($2.1M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($910k), Salvation Army ($880k).
- Does Raft Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Raft Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Raft Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Raft Charitable Foundation based?
- Raft Charitable Foundation is based in SD.
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