· Private foundation
Robert and Dolores Buril Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $15,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ALEXANDRA HOUSE | $10,000 |
| RISEN CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| CHRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WOMENS ADVOCATES | $2,500 |
| PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE | $2,500 |
| HELPING HANDS HEALING HOOVES | $2,500 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $1,500 |
| THE DRAWER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OLOUR LADY OF PEACE6× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +76%
- ELElevate Life6× · 2018–2023 · $34k · revenue +34%
- AHALEXANDRA HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES HOPE STREETone grant, 2021 · $20k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST PAUL AND Mone grant, 2020 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Benedictine living community - st. peter is a catholic organization entrusted with advancing the health care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. our mission is to witness to god's love by providing compassionate,…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.
Lss housing will support the continued vitality of north dakota communities by providing housing and housing-related services.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds Elevate Life ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Presentation College ↗
- Who funds NATIVE ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands Healing Hooves Inc ↗
- Who funds PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds The Drawer ↗
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: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert and Dolores Buril Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Dolores Buril Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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