South Dakota · Private foundation
Thomas and Julianne Youngren 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.
- $331k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation 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; $10k 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 | 23 | $329k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $325k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $296k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $300k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $370k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $355k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $371k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $331k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Historical Society | $540,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Science Museum of Minnesota | $396,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Zero Abuse Project | $340,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Children's Shelter of Cebu | $190,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Theater Latte Da | $175,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Healtheast Foundation | $140,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Many Rivers Montessori | $120,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Guthrie Theater Foundation | $95,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Heart of Dance | $89,000 | 5 | 7% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas and Julianne Youngren 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Raft Charitable Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · The Graco Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Edward Jones Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation with peer funders
About Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation
- How much does Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation give?
- Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $331,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Health (15%), Crime & Legal (11%).
- Who are Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota Historical Society ($540k), Science Museum of Minnesota ($396k), Zero Abuse Project ($340k).
- Does Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation 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 Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Raft Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation based?
- Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation is based in SD.
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