Minnesota · Private foundation
Robert W Carlson 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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Robert W Carlson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 7 | $27k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $54k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $45k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $40k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $57k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $48k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $35k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $42k | 53% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $71,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Artis-Naples Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dunwoody College of Technology | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Health Care Foundation | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ascension Catholic Grade School | $11,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Urban Roots Mn | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ed Allies | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Animal Humane Society | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Naples Botanical Garden Inc | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($121k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert W Carlson 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · AB CarVal Foundation · Wem Foundation · Minneapolis Jewish Federation · The Walser Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota
How this is measured
About Robert W Carlson Foundation
- How much does Robert W Carlson Foundation give?
- Robert W Carlson Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $28,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert W Carlson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Philanthropy (20%), Health (19%).
- Who are Robert W Carlson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Minnesota Foundation ($71k), Artis-Naples Inc ($30k), Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation ($23k).
- Does Robert W Carlson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert W Carlson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert W Carlson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation.
- Where is Robert W Carlson Foundation based?
- Robert W Carlson Foundation is based in MN.
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