Minnesota · Private foundation
Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $109k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $49,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 8 | $109k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $129k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $174k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $162k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $143k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $67k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $112k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 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 | $27,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ashland University | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Concordia University Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Mount Mary University Inc | $18,750 | 2 | 0% |
| St Norbert College Inc | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Alverno College | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Milwaukee School of Engineering | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Mount Marty University | $11,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Carthage College | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota | $27,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ashland University | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Concordia University Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Mount Mary University Inc | $18,750 | 2 | 0% |
| St Norbert College Inc | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Alverno College | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Milwaukee School of Engineering | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Mount Marty University | $11,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Carthage College | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Concordia University | $4,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Concordia University St Paul | $4,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($727k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd
- How much does Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd give?
- Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd reported 8 grants totaling $109,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Religion (0%).
- Who are Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Minnesota ($27k), Ashland University ($23k), Concordia University Inc ($23k).
- Does Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd based?
- Rolfs Educational Foundation Ltd is based in MN.
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