Minnesota · Private foundation
The Walser Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 189
- Grants FY2024
- 172
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 49%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 95 to 172
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 49% of the organizations The Walser Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $491k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 185 | $1.4M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 172 | $1.2M | 49% |
| FY2022 | 134 | $986k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 112 | $756k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 95 | $580k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 116 | $630k | 59% |
| FY2018 | 100 | $478k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunwoody College of Technology | $147,256 | 6 | 0% |
| Hope Academy Inc | $92,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | $85,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Achieve Twin Cities | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Way to Grow | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Fraser | $81,326 | 6 | 0% |
| Summit Academy Oic | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Banyan Foundation | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Minnesota Independence College and Community | $67,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Perspectives Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 262 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 195 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Walser Foundation 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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Hb Fuller Company Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Target Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Walser Foundation
- How much does The Walser Foundation give?
- The Walser Foundation reported 189 grants totaling $1,420,365 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 95 and 172 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Walser Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (14%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are The Walser Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Dunwoody College of Technology ($147k), Hope Academy Inc ($92k), Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation ($85k).
- Does The Walser Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Walser Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Walser Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is The Walser Foundation based?
- The Walser Foundation is based in MN.
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