· Private foundation
The Scrooby 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| THE ART PARTNERSHIP | $200,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| TPT | $25,000 |
| OCEAN REEF CUTURE CENTER | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES | $25,000 |
| GRAYVIL ANIMAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| MN LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| ORDWAY CENTER - PERFORMANING ART | $20,000 |
| BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDEN | $15,000 |
| MN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The Scrooby Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 58%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TAThe Arts Partnership5× · 2019–2025 · $550k · revenue +22%
- AHAnimal Humane Society7× · 2018–2025 · $291k · revenue +14%
THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- MHMIN HISTORICALSOCIETYFIRST INSTALLone grant, 2023 · $250k
- 4F4 FOR ONE ARTS PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2023 · $125k
- RCRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -53%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To support charitable, plant-based scientific, and educational activities exclusively for the benefit of the minnesota landscape arboretum of the university of minnesota
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The Minnesota Opera connects people in the shared pursuit of a more empathetic, equitable, joyful life by expanding the circle of musical storytelling.
To create community vibrancy by making strong parks superb. our vision is that everyone has equitable access to truly great green spaces where they feel welcomed, pursue wellness and find joy.
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
The minneapolis institute of art (mia) enriches the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world's diverse cultures.
The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) is a non-profit educational and cultural institution established in 1849. MNHS collects, preserves, and tells the story of Minnesota's past through museum exhibits, libraries and collections,…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The mission of minnesota public radio is creating the future of public media by amplifying voices to inform, include, and inspire.
The Minneapolis Parks Foundation transforms human lives through parks and public spaces by aligning philanthropic investment and community vision.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds COMO FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST ↗
- Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER LATTE DA ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARK SQUARE THEATRE ↗
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: Ibm International Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Dellwood Foundation Inc · Fleetwood Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · William Boss Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Scrooby Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scrooby Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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