Minnesota · Private foundation
Sundet 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,645
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $271,259
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 79
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Sundet Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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 | 53 | $1.8M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $1.8M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $1.6M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $1.7M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 74 | $2.6M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway House | $1,373,759 | 6 | 13% |
| Anselm House | $1,062,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Giants of the Earth Heritage Center Inc | $740,000 | 6 | 55% |
| True Friends | $635,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Navigators | $495,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Minnehaha Academy | $457,703 | 6 | 1% |
| Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $328,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | $300,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Focus on the Family | $228,950 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway House | $1,373,759 | 6 | 13% |
| Anselm House | $1,062,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Giants of the Earth Heritage Center Inc | $740,000 | 6 | 55% |
| True Friends | $635,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Navigators | $495,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Minnehaha Academy | $457,703 | 6 | 1% |
| Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $328,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | $300,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Focus on the Family | $228,950 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $114,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $86,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $80,891 | 6 | n/a |
| Evangelical Mount Olivet Lutheran Church | $80,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Creative Church | $76,310 | 6 | n/a |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $63,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Allina Health Foundation | $58,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Heritage Christian Academy | $49,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Westgate Church | $39,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc | $31,500 | 2 | 1% |
| River Valley Church | $29,088 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $29,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Christian Network Team | $28,000 | 4 | 35% |
| First Baptist Church of Sturgeon Bay | $27,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Center of the American Experiment | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Family Research Council | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada Adoption Services Inc | $23,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nokomis Heights Lutheran Church | $15,279 | 2 | n/a |
| Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ave Maria Academy Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 3% |
| People Serving People Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bsf International LLC | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Angel Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sharing and Caring Hands Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Perspectives Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Spring Grove Scholar Dollars | $9,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Mountain Ministries | $9,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $8,074 | 6 | 0% |
| Duke University | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Loppet Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ruff Start Rescue Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dillon Community Church | $5,931 | 4 | n/a |
| Bible Study Fellowship | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ski for Light Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Johns Catholic Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oaks International | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Prayer Breakfast Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Williams College | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Revive Our Hearts Ministries | $550 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sundet Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · United Way Worldwide · The K Foundation · American Gift Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
How this is measured
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About Sundet Foundation
- How much does Sundet Foundation give?
- Sundet Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $1,823,868 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 79 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sundet Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (28%), Education (18%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are Sundet Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Norway House ($1.4M), Anselm House ($1.1M), Giants of the Earth Heritage Center Inc ($740k).
- Does Sundet Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sundet 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 Sundet Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing.
- Where is Sundet Foundation based?
- Sundet Foundation is based in MN.
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