Minnesota · Private foundation
Sewell Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $164k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $51,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Sewell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $164k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $162k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $172k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $144k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $181k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $206k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $161k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $152k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballet Works Inc | $445,500 | 8 | 12% |
| Global Grassroots | $122,500 | 7 | 6% |
| International Cello Institute | $93,000 | 8 | 21% |
| Animal Humane Society | $84,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $42,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Woman's Club of Minneapolis | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Commusication | $27,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Earthjustice | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Arts Partnership | $21,750 | 7 | 2% |
| Schubert Club The | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sewell Family 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 McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Hrk Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Fdn · Xcel Energy Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · William Boss Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sewell Family Foundation
- How much does Sewell Family Foundation give?
- Sewell Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $163,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sewell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), Education (12%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Sewell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ballet Works Inc ($446k), Global Grassroots ($123k), International Cello Institute ($93k).
- Does Sewell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sewell Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sewell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
- Where is Sewell Family Foundation based?
- Sewell Family Foundation is based in MN.
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