South Dakota · Private foundation
Rau Family Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $540k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Rau Family Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363 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 | 16 | $24k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $20k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $24k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $23k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $22k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $22k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $19k | 20% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emanuel Lutheran Church | $116,002 | 8 | n/a |
| Coteau Des Prairies Hospital | $6,550 | 8 | 0% |
| Sisseton Youth Baseball Assoc Inc | $4,612 | 8 | 1% |
| Community Transit Inc | $4,150 | 9 | 0% |
| Family Life Assembly of God | $2,200 | 9 | n/a |
| Roberts County Sportsmens Club Inc | $500 | 2 | 1% |
| Coteau Des Prairies Hospital and Clinic Foundation | $500 | 1 | 9% |
| Sisseton Area Ministerial Association | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Sisseton Arts Council Inc | $200 | 2 | n/a |
| Sisseton Swimming Pool Assoc Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.
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: Welk Family Foundation · William J Holland and Alyce I Holland Foundation
How this is measured
About Rau Family Trust
- How much does Rau Family Trust give?
- Rau Family Trust reported 16 grants totaling $23,556 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rau Family Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (64%), Education (7%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
- Who are Rau Family Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Emanuel Lutheran Church ($116k), Coteau Des Prairies Hospital ($7k), Sisseton Youth Baseball Assoc Inc ($5k).
- Does Rau Family Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rau Family Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rau Family Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Welk Family Foundation, William J Holland and Alyce I Holland Foundation.
- Where is Rau Family Trust based?
- Rau Family Trust is based in SD.
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