· Private foundation
Stiles 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Normandale Community College Founda | $10,000 |
| VEAP | $10,000 |
| Oasis for Youth | $2,500 |
| Aavishkaar USA | $2,500 |
| Voyageurs Lutheran Ministry | $2,500 |
| International Village Clinic | $2,500 |
| PROP | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Three Rivers Park District Foundati | $2,000 |
| Cornerstone | $2,000 |
| Bloomington Symphony Orchestra | $2,000 |
| True Friends | $1,000 |
| The Rotary Foundation | $1,000 |
| Education Foundation of Bloomington | $500 |
| Minnesota Chiefs of Police Fdn | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNormandale Community College Foundation Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +106%
- OFOASIS FOR YOUTH5× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +58%
- AUAAVISHKAAR USA6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +187%
Funded once
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +50%- NCNormandale Community Collegeone grant, 2020 · $3k
- BZBRAVO ZULU HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Normandale Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds AAVISHKAAR USA ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Steve Rummler Hope Network ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
- Who funds BRAVO ZULU HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE BOND BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds South Metro Community Services ↗
- Who funds ACT UNITED ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGTON ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Tradition Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · American Gift Fund · Charlson Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stiles Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stiles Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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