Minnesota · Private foundation
Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2022
- 90
- Grants FY2022
- 84
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Givinga Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 53 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $128,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 84 to 105
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 16
- Total assets, FY2022
- $604k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 36% of the organizations Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 84 | $1.0M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 105 | $823k | 65% |
| FY2020 | 86 | $672k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creekstone Montessori School | $178,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Riseup Partnership | $146,151 | 3 | 19% |
| Friends of the Friedrich Civic Center | $100,000 | 1 | 15% |
| United Way of Goodhuewabasha & Pierce Counties | $91,700 | 1 | 20% |
| Red Wing Ignite | $66,667 | 2 | 7% |
| Red Wing Arts Association | $63,500 | 4 | 8% |
| Eaglewatch Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hope & Harbor | $51,700 | 3 | 15% |
| Universal Music Center Inc | $46,000 | 3 | 14% |
| C A R E Clinic | $45,300 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 124 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Jones Family Foundation · Givinga Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Goodhuewabasha & Pierce Counties · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Albrecht-Poss Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation
- How much does Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation give?
- Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation reported 90 grants totaling $1,031,472 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 84 and 105 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (45%), Community Improvement (23%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Creekstone Montessori School ($179k), Riseup Partnership ($146k), Friends of the Friedrich Civic Center ($100k).
- Does Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Jones Family Foundation.
- Where is Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation based?
- Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation is based in MN.
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