Minnesota · Public charity
St Olaf College
St. Olaf college challenges students to excel in the liberal arts, examine faith and values, and explore meaningful vocation in an inclusive, globally engaged community nourished by lutheran tradition.
- $141M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $53k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $28,240
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations St Olaf College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 4 | $53k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $63k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $39k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $22k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $13k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $7k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luther Seminary | $64,690 | 3 | n/a |
| Lutheran Campus Ministry Network | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wartburg Theological Seminary | $21,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Reconcilingworks Lutherans for Full Participation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| St Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denton Wesley Foundation | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Olivet Lutheran Church | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Capital University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lutherans Concernednorth America | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lutheran Campus Council of Corvallis | $6,650 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luther Seminary | $64,690 | 3 | n/a |
| Lutheran Campus Ministry Network | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wartburg Theological Seminary | $21,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Reconcilingworks Lutherans for Full Participation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| St Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Denton Wesley Foundation | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Olivet Lutheran Church | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Capital University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lutherans Concernednorth America | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lutheran Campus Council of Corvallis | $6,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Emmaus Campus Ministry | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of Colorado | $5,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of Arizona | $5,417 | 1 | n/a |
| Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries | $5,080 | 1 | 2% |
| Lutheran Campus Council of Grand Forks | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
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 Charitable Impact & Investing · Lilly Endowment Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About St Olaf College
- How much does St Olaf College give?
- St Olaf College reported 4 itemized grants totaling $53,240, out of $141,165,957 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does St Olaf College fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (89%), Education (7%), Civil Rights (4%).
- Who are St Olaf College's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Luther Seminary ($65k), Lutheran Campus Ministry Network ($25k), Wartburg Theological Seminary ($21k).
- Does St Olaf College fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as St Olaf College?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Lilly Endowment Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is St Olaf College based?
- St Olaf College is based in MN.
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