Minnesota · Private foundation
Skanse 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.
- $539k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Skanse Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 32 | $524k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $790k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $820k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $480k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $770k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $605k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $601k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $279k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnehaha Academy | $1,032,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Jeremiah Program | $326,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Twin Cities Rise | $195,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Avenues for Youth | $156,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $116,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $110,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sharing and Caring Hands Inc | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Skanse 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · American Gift Fund · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Skanse Family Foundation
- How much does Skanse Family Foundation give?
- Skanse Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $538,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Skanse Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (23%), Human Services (19%).
- Who are Skanse Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnehaha Academy ($1.0M), Jeremiah Program ($327k), Twin Cities Rise ($195k).
- Does Skanse Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Skanse 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 Skanse Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Pohlad Family Foundation.
- Where is Skanse Family Foundation based?
- Skanse Family Foundation is based in MN.
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