Minnesota · Private foundation
Sampson Family Charitable 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.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,365
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $555k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Sampson Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 27 | $116k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $99k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $105k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $97k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $85k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $85k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $88k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $70k | 7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Generation | $45,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Bright Water Montessori School | $42,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $39,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lyric Arts Company of Anoka Inc | $34,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Food Group Minnesota Inc The | $32,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Twin Cities Public Television Inc | $29,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Agate Housing & Services Inc | $24,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Sharing and Caring Hands Inc | $23,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Airport Foundation Msp | $23,120 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($254k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sampson Family Charitable 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Crosswols Foundation · Longview Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Sampson Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Sampson Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Sampson Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Sampson Family Charitable Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $116,485 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sampson Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (19%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Sampson Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Climate Generation ($45k), Bright Water Montessori School ($42k), Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc ($39k).
- Does Sampson Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sampson Family Charitable 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 Sampson Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The K Foundation.
- Where is Sampson Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Sampson Family Charitable Foundation is based in MN.
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