Minnesota · Public charity
The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation
Supporting tax exempt charitable and educational organizations.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $726k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 64
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $324k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 47 | $716k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $2.1M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $2.1M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $2.3M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $2.8M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $1.8M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $2.1M | 22% |
| FY2017 | 56 | $2.6M | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Heartland | $1,652,214 | 6 | 1% |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $1,500,080 | 1 | 1% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $1,200,350 | 8 | 0% |
| Summit Academy Oic | $1,000,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Simpson Housing Services Inc | $800,300 | 2 | 4% |
| Guthrie Theater Foundation | $660,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Northside Achievement Zone | $600,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Children's Theatre Company and School | $580,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Minnesota Historical Society | $569,980 | 8 | 0% |
| The Fund for Legal Aid | $534,360 | 8 | 5% |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 130 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Target Foundation · Faegre Drinker Foundation · William Boss Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation
- How much does The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation give?
- The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation reported 48 itemized grants totaling $725,940, out of $1,005,433 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (12%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Second Harvest Heartland ($1.7M), Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media ($1.5M), Greater Twin Cities United Way ($1.2M).
- Does The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation.
- Where is The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation based?
- The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation is based in MN.
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