Wisconsin · Community foundation
St Croix Valley Foundation
The mission of the st. Croix valley foundation is to enhance the quality of life in the st. Croix valley.
- $4.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 93
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of St Croix Valley Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 100 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year St Croix Valley Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 90 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,708
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 95
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $125M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations St Croix Valley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $657k 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 | 90 | $2.3M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 81 | $2.0M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $3.7M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $1.8M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $3.0M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $1.1M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $584k | 45% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $2.1M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarship America Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Somerset Public Library | $1,135,684 | 2 | n/a |
| Lakeview Health Foundation | $1,031,646 | 7 | 16% |
| Wild Rivers Conservancy of the St Croix & Namekagon | $854,263 | 9 | 13% |
| Amherst H Wilder Foundation | $853,725 | 5 | 2% |
| University of St Thomas | $620,053 | 2 | 0% |
| Courage Kenny Foundation | $581,281 | 4 | 11% |
| Hudson Hockey Association Inc | $519,287 | 2 | 12% |
| Allina Health Foundation | $496,365 | 3 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the North | $473,208 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 266 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
St Croix Valley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 176 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: Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Hardenbergh Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · United Way St Croix and Red Cedar Valleys Inc · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hrk Foundation · Mardag Foundation · United Way of Washington County-East
How this is measured
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About St Croix Valley Foundation
- How much does St Croix Valley Foundation give?
- St Croix Valley Foundation reported 93 itemized grants totaling $2,335,315, out of $4,232,786 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 95 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does St Croix Valley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (66%), Health (9%), Education (8%).
- Who are St Croix Valley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Scholarship America Inc ($1.5M), Somerset Public Library ($1.1M), Lakeview Health Foundation ($1.0M).
- Does St Croix Valley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as St Croix Valley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation, Hugh J Andersen Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is St Croix Valley Foundation based?
- St Croix Valley Foundation is based in WI.
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