Minnesota · Private foundation
The Patch 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.
- $923k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Patch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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 | 37 | $923k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $962k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $1.1M | 2% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $1.1M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $1.1M | 4% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $1.2M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $1.3M | 2% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $1.2M | 8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem Covenant Church New Brighton Mn | $1,369,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $900,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Evangelical Covenant Church | $705,900 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $450,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $420,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $260,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Metro Hope Ministries Inc | $260,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| People Serving People Inc | $215,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Simpson Housing Services Inc | $195,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Patch Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · The K Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation
How this is measured
About The Patch Foundation
- How much does The Patch Foundation give?
- The Patch Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $923,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Patch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (51%), Human Services (13%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Patch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Salem Covenant Church New Brighton Mn ($1.4M), Salvation Army ($900k), Evangelical Covenant Church ($706k).
- Does The Patch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Patch 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 Patch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation.
- Where is The Patch Foundation based?
- The Patch Foundation is based in MN.
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