Minnesota · Private foundation
The Shared Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $218k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,265
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Shared Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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 | 46 | $213k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $169k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $131k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $153k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $197k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $129k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $109k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $120k | 45% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association | $196,181 | 8 | 0% |
| Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego | $135,500 | 9 | 0% |
| North Coast Repertory Theatre | $74,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple Solel of Northern San Diego County Inc | $44,490 | 7 | n/a |
| Conflict Resolution Center | $43,000 | 7 | 2% |
| La Jolla Music Society | $35,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Museum of Photographic Arts | $34,000 | 8 | 0% |
| San Diego Museum of Art | $25,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Voices for Children Advocacy | $25,450 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis | $22,800 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($551k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Shared 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 San Diego Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust · The Cushman Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation
How this is measured
About The Shared Fund
- How much does The Shared Fund give?
- The Shared Fund reported 47 grants totaling $218,365 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Shared Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Philanthropy (13%), Religion (5%).
- Who are The Shared Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association ($196k), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego ($136k), North Coast Repertory Theatre ($75k).
- Does The Shared Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shared Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Shared Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego.
- Where is The Shared Fund based?
- The Shared Fund is based in MN.
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