Minnesota · Private foundation
Russell T Lund Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $132k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations Russell T Lund Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | 43 | $82k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $93k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $92k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $105k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $112k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $493k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $84k | 76% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $72k | 54% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of the North | $151,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Open Arms of Minnesota | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Twin Cities Public Television Inc | $48,996 | 2 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Operation Gratitude Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Minnesota Military Family Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($316k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Russell T Lund Charitable Trust 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 · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Pohlad Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation
How this is measured
About Russell T Lund Charitable Trust
- How much does Russell T Lund Charitable Trust give?
- Russell T Lund Charitable Trust reported 44 grants totaling $132,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Russell T Lund Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Philanthropy (19%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Russell T Lund Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Mens Christian Association of the North ($151k), Open Arms of Minnesota ($105k), The Salvation Army ($75k).
- Does Russell T Lund Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Russell T Lund Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Russell T Lund Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation.
- Where is Russell T Lund Charitable Trust based?
- Russell T Lund Charitable Trust is based in MN.
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