Minnesota · Private foundation
Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,840
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,360
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $449k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 12 | $26k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $22k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $24k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $24k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $19k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $20k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $11k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $25k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dordt University | $7,051 | 5 | 0% |
| New York University | $6,881 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $6,381 | 5 | 0% |
| Msu Billings | $4,350 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Jamestown | $3,805 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Mary | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Seattle Pacific University | $2,850 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas State University | $2,826 | 2 | n/a |
| Northwest College | $2,680 | 2 | n/a |
| Utah State University | $2,350 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dordt University | $7,051 | 5 | 0% |
| New York University | $6,881 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $6,381 | 5 | 0% |
| Msu Billings | $4,350 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Jamestown | $3,805 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Mary | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Seattle Pacific University | $2,850 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas State University | $2,826 | 2 | n/a |
| Northwest College | $2,680 | 2 | n/a |
| Utah State University | $2,350 | 2 | n/a |
| Concordia College Corporation | $2,350 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Minot State University | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Providence | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Maranatha Baptist University Inc | $850 | 1 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain College | $850 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Christian University | $850 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust 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 Darcy Lynn Dengel Foundation Inc · The Leonard Rydell Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust
- How much does Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust give?
- Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust reported 12 grants totaling $25,920 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Religion (0%), Arts & Culture (0%).
- Who are Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dordt University ($7k), New York University ($7k), University of Denver ($6k).
- Does Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Darcy Lynn Dengel Foundation Inc, The Leonard Rydell Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust based?
- Ralph H Foss Memorial Trust is based in MN.
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