Minnesota · Private foundation
The Depot 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.
- $559k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,153
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $149,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Depot 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; $16k 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 | 12 | $559k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $493k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $475k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $394k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $320k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $430k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $303k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $310k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duluth Playhouse Inc | $599,002 | 7 | 11% |
| St Louis County Historical Society | $511,087 | 9 | 13% |
| Minnesota Ballet Inc | $507,185 | 9 | 23% |
| Lake Superior Railroad Musuem | $457,090 | 9 | 7% |
| Duluth Art Institute Assoc | $367,834 | 8 | 22% |
| Duluth Superior Symphony Associatio | $273,628 | 9 | 5% |
| Historic Union Depot Corp | $89,535 | 3 | 14% |
| Arrowhead Chorale | $60,102 | 8 | n/a |
| Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community | $46,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Arts Project Inc | $21,909 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duluth Playhouse Inc | $599,002 | 7 | 11% |
| St Louis County Historical Society | $511,087 | 9 | 13% |
| Minnesota Ballet Inc | $507,185 | 9 | 23% |
| Lake Superior Railroad Musuem | $457,090 | 9 | 7% |
| Duluth Art Institute Assoc | $367,834 | 8 | 22% |
| Duluth Superior Symphony Associatio | $273,628 | 9 | 5% |
| Historic Union Depot Corp | $89,535 | 3 | 14% |
| Arrowhead Chorale | $60,102 | 8 | n/a |
| Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community | $46,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Arts Project Inc | $21,909 | 2 | n/a |
| Duluth Children's Museum Inc | $18,123 | 4 | 4% |
| Lyric Opera of the North | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The 24 Hour Company | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Matinee Musicale Inc | $1,711 | 3 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($686k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Depot 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: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Arrowhead Regional Arts Council · Pachel Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · Northland Foundation · Wildey Mitchell Family Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Minnesota Humanities Center · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About The Depot Foundation
- How much does The Depot Foundation give?
- The Depot Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $558,841 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Depot Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Community Improvement (2%), Philanthropy (1%).
- Who are The Depot Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Duluth Playhouse Inc ($599k), St Louis County Historical Society ($511k), Minnesota Ballet Inc ($507k).
- Does The Depot Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Depot 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 The Depot Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lloyd K Johnson Foundation, Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council.
- Where is The Depot Foundation based?
- The Depot Foundation is based in MN.
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