Minnesota · Private foundation
The Joel and Teresa Pfister 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.
- $115k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations The Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 | 23 | $115k | 83% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $87k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $64k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $56k | 90% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $31k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $100k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $36k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $34k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities | $81,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Student Television Network Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Open Arms of Minnesota | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Upstate Nevada Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Eddy House | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Semcac | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Simpson Housing Services Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vail Place | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Preston Historical Society | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Rise Up Ninja Foundation | $13,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joel and Teresa Pfister 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 · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust
How this is measured
Compare The Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation with peer funders
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About The Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation
- How much does The Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation give?
- The Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $115,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (30%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are The Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities ($81k), Student Television Network Inc ($50k), Open Arms of Minnesota ($50k).
- Does The Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joel and Teresa Pfister 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 Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Xcel Energy Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is The Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation based?
- The Joel and Teresa Pfister Foundation is based in MN.
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