Minnesota · Private foundation
The Frandsen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,018,802
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 34
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Frandsen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 10 | $1.0M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $781k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $508k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $330k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $365k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $412k | 62% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $255k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Age Trail Alliance Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dunwoody College of Technology | $27,900 | 2 | 0% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | $11,341 | 1 | n/a |
| Rush City Firemans Relief Assn | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Rush City Cares | $2,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Lakes Region EMS Inc | $1,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Acres for Life - Therapy & Wellness Center | $600 | 2 | 0% |
| Chisago County Historical Society | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rush City Food Shelf Inc | $200 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Age Trail Alliance Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dunwoody College of Technology | $27,900 | 2 | 0% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | $11,341 | 1 | n/a |
| Rush City Firemans Relief Assn | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Rush City Cares | $2,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Lakes Region EMS Inc | $1,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Acres for Life - Therapy & Wellness Center | $600 | 2 | 0% |
| Chisago County Historical Society | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rush City Food Shelf Inc | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Seneca Family of Agencies | $191 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Frandsen Family Foundation
- How much does The Frandsen Family Foundation give?
- The Frandsen Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,042,802 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Frandsen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (93%), Human Services (2%), Health (2%).
- Who are The Frandsen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Ice Age Trail Alliance Inc ($30k), Dunwoody College of Technology ($28k), Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College ($11k).
- Does The Frandsen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Frandsen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Frandsen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Frandsen Family Foundation based?
- The Frandsen Family Foundation is based in MN.
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