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The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$51k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 9
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$18k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$51k17%
FY20246$46k33%
FY20235$29k20%
FY20229$55k67%
FY20218$103k50%
FY20206$101k33%
FY20195$89kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$234kHealth$96kArts & Culture$60kFood & Nutrition$29kAnimals$17kYouth Development$11kInternational$9kHuman Services$9kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Twin Cities Public Television Inc$60,00060%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$39,50070%
Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation$20,00020%
Pacer Center Inc$20,00020%
Animal Humane Society$16,50030%
Bolder Options$11,00040%
Global Minnesota$9,02011%
Bloom Early Learning$7,00020%
Mg Charities$5,00012%
Forman School Inc$2,50010%
YWCA of Minneapolis$1,50010%
Benilde St Margarets High School$1,0001n/a
Franklin Center$1,00010%
Intercongregation Communities Association Inc$1,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($277k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTwin Cities Public Television Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $39,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAbbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPacer Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBolder Options: $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGlobal Minnesota: $9,020 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBloom Early Learning: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMg Charities: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetForman School Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Minneapolis: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIntercongregation Communities Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 13.

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.

Sit Investment Associates FoundationMN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sit Investment Associates Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · AB CarVal Foundation · Wem Foundation · Longview Foundation · The Walser Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation

How much does The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation give?
The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $51,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (50%), Health (20%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Twin Cities Public Television Inc ($60k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($40k), Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation ($20k).
Does The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sit Investment Associates Foundation, The Head Family Foundation, Margaret a Cargill Foundation.
Where is The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation based?
The Robert William and Nina Gayle Sit Foundation is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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