Minnesota · Private foundation
Schwan's Corporate Giving 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.
- $534k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $155,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 28
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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 | 21 | $534k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $531k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $461k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $733k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $815k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $1.3M | 46% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $1.1M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding America | $1,110,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $1,027,670 | 5 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $689,880 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of Southwest Minnesota | $291,430 | 7 | 11% |
| Youth Farm and Market Project | $276,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $212,012 | 2 | 0% |
| Bolder Options | $116,826 | 6 | 2% |
| Southwest Minnesota State University Foundation | $101,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Salina Emergency Aidfood Bank Inc | $56,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Adair County Resource Center Inc | $41,885 | 1 | 57% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Communitygiving · Grotto Foundation Inc · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
Compare Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation with peer funders
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About Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation
- How much does Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation give?
- Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $534,463 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Food & Nutrition (43%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Feeding America ($1.1M), University of Minnesota Foundation ($1.0M), Second Harvest Heartland ($690k).
- Does Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schwan's Corporate Giving 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 Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
- Where is Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation based?
- Schwan's Corporate Giving Foundation is based in MN.
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