Missouri · Private foundation
Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $62k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 60 | $62k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $128k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $79k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $91k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $74k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $71k | 62% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $70k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $64k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gustavus Adolphus College | $134,315 | 9 | 0% |
| Intercongregation Communities Association Inc | $28,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Edina Give and Go | $16,750 | 8 | 1% |
| Ridgeview Foundation | $11,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Bethany Lutheran College Inc | $11,000 | 8 | 0% |
| National Lutheran Choir Corp | $10,950 | 7 | 1% |
| Emergency Community Help Organization Inc | $9,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Grunewald Guild | $9,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Ready Readers | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Salem Lutheran Church | $8,250 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 142 recipients with no EIN on record ($269k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Raymond H & Florence Sponberg 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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Mankato Area Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · St Louis Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · L & N Andreas Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return
How this is measured
Compare Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation with peer funders
About Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation
- How much does Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation give?
- Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $62,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Religion (15%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gustavus Adolphus College ($134k), Intercongregation Communities Association Inc ($28k), Edina Give and Go ($17k).
- Does Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation, Whitefish Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation based?
- Raymond H & Florence Sponberg Foundation is based in MO.
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