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The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$149k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEnvironmentCivil RightsInternationalOther
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
FY2024still arriving9$16k44%
FY202313$10k15%
FY202212$10k50%
FY202110$12k60%
FY202022$14k73%
FY201911$10k64%
FY20183$12k33%
FY201710$13kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$29kCommunity Improvement$15kPublic Benefit$13kHousing & Shelter$12kPhilanthropy$5kAnimals$4kCivil Rights$4kArts & Culture$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Avenues for Youth$11,75840%
St Andrews Church$8,0002n/a
Project Success$2,86530%
Twin Cities Paddlesports$1,4373n/a
Caring for Cats Inc$1,0001n/a
Friends of the Mississippi River$79420%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$72040%
The Museum of Russian Art$60720%
Matthew Shepard Foundation$50010%
Ashland Productions Inc$3001n/a
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All grantees of The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Avenues for Youth$11,75840%
St Andrews Church$8,0002n/a
Project Success$2,86530%
Twin Cities Paddlesports$1,4373n/a
Caring for Cats Inc$1,0001n/a
Friends of the Mississippi River$79420%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$72040%
The Museum of Russian Art$60720%
Matthew Shepard Foundation$50010%
Ashland Productions Inc$3001n/a
Can Do Canines$29910%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$22510%
Ann Bancroft Foundation$21410%
American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota$20010%
Twin Cities Public Television Inc$10010%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$4020%

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAvenues for Youth: $11,758 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetProject Success: $2,865 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Mississippi River: $794 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $720 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Museum of Russian Art: $607 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew Shepard Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCan Do Canines: $299 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Public Radio American Public Media: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn Bancroft Foundation: $214 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Cities Public Television Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $40 over 2y, 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 12.

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust

How much does The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust give?
The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $15,652 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Community Improvement (16%), Public Benefit (14%).
Who are The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Avenues for Youth ($12k), St Andrews Church ($8k), Project Success ($3k).
Does The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust 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 Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust based?
The Susan a and Kevin P Grelling Charitable Trust 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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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