Minnesota · Private foundation
Severson Family 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.
- $178k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $748k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Severson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | $178k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $174k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $365k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $193k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $310k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $68k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $308k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $69k | 20% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luther Seminary | $260,330 | 3 | n/a |
| First Lutheran Church | $241,000 | 3 | n/a |
| First Luthern Church | $202,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Augustana University Association | $178,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pickerel Lake Conservancy | $117,200 | 7 | 62% |
| Rise Early Learning Center | $75,350 | 5 | 4% |
| Westwood Lutheran Church | $71,420 | 9 | n/a |
| The Banquet | $34,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $28,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Education | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($615k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Severson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Jerstad Family Foundation · First Lutheran Church Foundation · Tenfold Foundation Inc · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation
How this is measured
About Severson Family Foundation
- How much does Severson Family Foundation give?
- Severson Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $178,120 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Severson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Education (15%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Severson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Luther Seminary ($260k), First Lutheran Church ($241k), First Luthern Church ($203k).
- Does Severson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Severson Family 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 Severson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Severson Family Foundation based?
- Severson Family Foundation is based in MN.
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