Minnesota · Private foundation
Squam Lake 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.
- $400k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Squam Lake Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $150k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $150k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $155k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $135k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $95k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $91k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $91k | 9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macphail Center for Music | $190,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners | $159,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Madeline Island Chamber Music co Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | $158,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Sharing and Caring Hands Inc | $93,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Simpson Housing Services Inc | $71,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc | $67,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Agate Housing & Services Inc | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $52,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Banyan Foundation | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Tubman | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macphail Center for Music | $190,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners | $159,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Madeline Island Chamber Music co Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | $158,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Sharing and Caring Hands Inc | $93,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Simpson Housing Services Inc | $71,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc | $67,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Agate Housing & Services Inc | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $52,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Banyan Foundation | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Tubman | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $23,750 | 5 | n/a |
| Minnesota Military Family Foundation | $22,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia | $3,500 | 2 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($324k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Squam Lake 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 · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Squam Lake Foundation
- How much does Squam Lake Foundation give?
- Squam Lake Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Squam Lake Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Squam Lake Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Macphail Center for Music ($190k), Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners ($159k), Madeline Island Chamber Music co Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP ($158k).
- Does Squam Lake Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Squam Lake 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 Squam Lake Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Squam Lake Foundation based?
- Squam Lake Foundation is based in MN.
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