How much does The James R Thorpe Foundation give?

The James R Thorpe Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $342,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

What does The James R Thorpe Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (8%), Youth Development (4%), Arts & Culture (3%).

Who are The James R Thorpe Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Community Emergency Service Inc ($45k), Children's Law Center of Minnesota ($30k), LongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program ($29k).

Does The James R Thorpe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The James R Thorpe Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.

Where is The James R Thorpe Foundation based?

The James R Thorpe Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

The James R Thorpe Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$342k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 32
Grants FY2025: 24
Organizations funded FY2020

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $25,000
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $6.6M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$158kYouth Development$79kArts & Culture$66kFood & Nutrition$62kHousing & Shelter$55kHealth$48kCrime & Legal$38kEducation$30kOther$0

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
Community Emergency Service Inc	$45,000	2	1%
Children's Law Center of Minnesota	$30,000	2	1%
LongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program	$28,500	2	6%
Senior Community Services	$28,000	2	1%
Hospitality House Youth Development	$27,500	2	1%
Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities	$24,000	2	1%
Minnesota Elder Justice Center	$22,500	2	1%
Help at Your Door	$22,500	2	1%
Movefwd Inc	$22,500	2	1%
Centro Tyrone Guzman	$18,000	2	0%

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All grantees of The James R Thorpe Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Emergency Service Inc	$45,000	2	1%
Children's Law Center of Minnesota	$30,000	2	1%
LongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program	$28,500	2	6%
Senior Community Services	$28,000	2	1%
Hospitality House Youth Development	$27,500	2	1%
Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities	$24,000	2	1%
Minnesota Elder Justice Center	$22,500	2	1%
Help at Your Door	$22,500	2	1%
Movefwd Inc	$22,500	2	1%
Centro Tyrone Guzman	$18,000	2	0%
Spark Youth	$18,000	2	0%
Alive & Kickin	$17,500	1	n/a
Compas Inc	$16,500	2	1%
Southeast Seniors A living at homeblock nurse program	$16,000	1	4%
Creatempls	$15,000	1	n/a
Dinomights	$15,000	2	1%
Illusion Theater and School Inc	$14,000	1	2%
Dream of Wild Health	$13,500	2	0%
Kairos Alive	$12,000	1	5%
Center School Inc	$10,000	1	1%
The Cookie Cart	$10,000	1	1%
Community Emergency Assistance Programs Inc	$10,000	1	0%
La Oportunidad Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Open Hands Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Start Senior Solutions	$8,500	1	n/a
Ka Joog Nonprofit Organization	$8,000	1	1%
Community Mediation & Restorative Servic Es Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Hope Community Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Western Communities Action Network Inc	$7,500	1	1%
African Immigrants Community Servic	$7,500	1	1%
Highpoint Center for Printmaking	$6,000	1	1%
Faith Community Nurse Network of the Greater Twin Cities	$5,000	1	2%
826 Msp	$5,000	1	1%
People Responding in Social Ministry	$3,000	1	0%
Sojourner Project Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Age Well at Home	$1,000	1	1%
Trellis Co	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James R Thorpe Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN57× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Stevens Square Foundation · Youthprise · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Target Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The James R Thorpe Foundation

How much does The James R Thorpe Foundation give?: The James R Thorpe Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $342,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The James R Thorpe Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (8%), Youth Development (4%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are The James R Thorpe Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Community Emergency Service Inc ($45k), Children's Law Center of Minnesota ($30k), LongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program ($29k).
Does The James R Thorpe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The James R Thorpe Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
Where is The James R Thorpe Foundation based?: The James R Thorpe Foundation is based in MN.