Minnesota · Private foundation
Samsara 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.
- $210k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $46,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Samsara Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 11 | $210k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $204k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $221k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $206k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $225k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $216k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $222k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $231k | 35% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nonviolent Peaceforce | $395,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $165,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Domestic Abuse Legal Advocacy Center Psc | $50,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $44,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Just Detention International | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Animal Humane Society | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| All Stars Project Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunset Hill PTSA | $19,000 | 4 | 9% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($957k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Samsara 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 · The Minneapolis Foundation · Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation · Marbrook Foundation · Lenfestey Family Foundation Inc · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Samsara Foundation
- How much does Samsara Foundation give?
- Samsara Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $210,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Samsara Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), International (21%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Samsara Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nonviolent Peaceforce ($395k), Connecticut Foodshare Inc ($165k), Domestic Abuse Legal Advocacy Center Psc ($50k).
- Does Samsara Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samsara 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 Samsara Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation.
- Where is Samsara Foundation based?
- Samsara Foundation is based in MN.
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