Minnesota · Private foundation
The Rum Fund
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.
- $289k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $103,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Rum Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 39 | $264k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $424k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $361k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $474k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $393k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $533k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Israel | $421,053 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $403,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $272,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Minnesota Orchestral Association | $239,666 | 5 | 0% |
| Sholom Foundation | $204,560 | 6 | 3% |
| Children's Theatre Company and School | $147,992 | 6 | 1% |
| The Blake School | $135,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $126,167 | 6 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $91,630 | 3 | 0% |
| Guthrie Theater Foundation | $71,167 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rum Fund 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation · Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family Foundation · Elmar Family Foundation · Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation · Stanley M & Luella G Goldberg Family Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation
How this is measured
About The Rum Fund
- How much does The Rum Fund give?
- The Rum Fund reported 40 grants totaling $288,592 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Rum Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (21%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are The Rum Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Temple Israel ($421k), University of Minnesota Foundation ($403k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($273k).
- Does The Rum Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rum Fund 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 Rum Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Rum Fund based?
- The Rum Fund is based in MN.
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