How much does Rahr Foundation give?

Rahr Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $265,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Rahr Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (40%), Education (31%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are Rahr Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Montana Trout Unlimited ($113k), Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts ($80k), Earthjustice ($65k).

Does Rahr Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rahr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Rahr Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Patagoniaorg.

Where is Rahr Foundation based?

Rahr Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Rahr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$265k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 28
Grants FY2024: 26
Organizations funded FY2023: 23%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $7,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $20,000
Organizations funded a year: 25 to 33; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 11
Total assets, FY2024: $7.5M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Rahr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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	27	$265k	59%
FY2023	26	$250k	23%
FY2022	33	$313k	33%
FY2021	26	$293k	38%
FY2020	25	$273k	n/a

92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$570kEducation$440kArts & Culture$128kAnimals$55kScience & Tech$43kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$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
Montana Trout Unlimited	$112,500	5	5%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts	$80,000	3	0%
Earthjustice	$65,000	4	0%
Minnesota Land Trust	$60,000	4	0%
Sustainable Northwest	$50,000	5	0%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$50,000	5	0%
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota	$40,000	4	1%
Chiricahua Land Conservancy	$30,000	3	4%
The Montana Land Reliance	$25,000	5	0%
Children's Theatre Company and School	$25,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Rahr Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Montana Trout Unlimited	$112,500	5	5%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts	$80,000	3	0%
Earthjustice	$65,000	4	0%
Minnesota Land Trust	$60,000	4	0%
Sustainable Northwest	$50,000	5	0%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$50,000	5	0%
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota	$40,000	4	1%
Chiricahua Land Conservancy	$30,000	3	4%
The Montana Land Reliance	$25,000	5	0%
Children's Theatre Company and School	$25,000	3	0%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$25,000	2	0%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Fairfield University	$22,500	3	0%
Climate Generation	$20,000	2	1%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$20,000	1	0%
Montana Environmental Information Center	$17,500	4	1%
Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies	$15,000	3	0%
University of St Thomas	$15,000	2	0%
Trustees of Purdue University	$15,000	2	n/a
Wild Salmon Center	$15,000	2	0%
Marin Agricultural Land Trust	$10,000	1	0%
Defenders of Wildlife	$10,000	1	0%
American Rivers Inc	$10,000	1	0%
University of Wisconsin	$7,500	1	n/a
President and Trustees of Bates College	$7,500	1	0%
University of Minnesota	$7,500	1	n/a
Depaul University	$7,500	1	0%
Concordia College Corporation	$7,500	1	0%
Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota	$7,500	1	0%
Owl Research Institute Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Friends of the Columbia Gorge	$5,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($580k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rahr Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 28.

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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 FoundationMN16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Crosswols Foundation · The K Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ibm International 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 Rahr Foundation

How much does Rahr Foundation give?: Rahr Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $265,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Rahr Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (40%), Education (31%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Rahr Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Montana Trout Unlimited ($113k), Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts ($80k), Earthjustice ($65k).
Does Rahr Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rahr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rahr Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Patagoniaorg.
Where is Rahr Foundation based?: Rahr Foundation is based in MN.