Minnesota · Private foundation
The Bwbr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $71k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 68
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $930k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Bwbr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 65 | $66k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $61k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $62k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $60k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $53k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $42k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $34k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $33k | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Architectural Foundation | $20,000 | 5 | 3% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $18,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Canvas Health Inc | $13,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hennepin Health Foundation | $13,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Aia Minnesota | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Merrick Community Services | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Northwestern - St Paul | $9,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Carleton College | $8,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Carroll University Inc | $8,200 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bwbr Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Communitygiving · Nicholson Family Foundation · The American Center for Philanthropy Inc
How this is measured
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About The Bwbr Foundation
- How much does The Bwbr Foundation give?
- The Bwbr Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $70,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bwbr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (32%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are The Bwbr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota Architectural Foundation ($20k), University of Minnesota Foundation ($18k), Canvas Health Inc ($13k).
- Does The Bwbr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bwbr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bwbr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Bwbr Foundation based?
- The Bwbr Foundation is based in MN.
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