Minnesota · Private foundation
Sundance Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $940k
- Granted FY2023
- 49
- Grants FY2023
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 48
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 7
- Total assets, FY2023
- $127k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Sundance Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 48 | $923k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $549k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $2.8M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $647k | 76% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $474k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
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, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Softec Education Inc | $180,600 | 4 | 47% |
| Urban Strategies Inc | $138,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Elpis Enterprises | $125,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Wallin Education Partners | $114,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Urban Roots Mn | $100,000 | 5 | 4% |
| All Square | $99,200 | 4 | 2% |
| Dunwoody College of Technology | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Summit Academy Oic | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Goodwill Industries Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Newgate Education and Research Center Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sundance Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Youthprise · The McKnight Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Target Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Xcel Energy Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sundance Family Foundation
- How much does Sundance Family Foundation give?
- Sundance Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $940,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 48 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Sundance Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Employment (13%), Education (11%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Sundance Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Softec Education Inc ($181k), Urban Strategies Inc ($139k), Elpis Enterprises ($125k).
- Does Sundance Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sundance 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 Sundance Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Sundance Family Foundation based?
- Sundance Family Foundation is based in MN.
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