Minnesota · Private foundation
Tobola Educational Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $87k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,397
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,392
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 59% of the organizations Tobola Educational Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 20 | $85k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $90k | 59% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $100k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $114k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $98k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $95k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $99k | 46% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $96k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin | $94,571 | 8 | n/a |
| Viterbo University | $7,685 | 5 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $6,772 | 2 | 0% |
| St Olaf College | $5,694 | 4 | 0% |
| St Norbert College Inc | $5,036 | 4 | 0% |
| Western Technical College | $3,520 | 2 | n/a |
| Edgewood University Inc | $2,601 | 2 | 0% |
| University of St Thomas | $2,397 | 1 | 0% |
| Ripon College | $2,397 | 1 | 0% |
| Concordia University Inc | $2,286 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin | $94,571 | 8 | n/a |
| Viterbo University | $7,685 | 5 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $6,772 | 2 | 0% |
| St Olaf College | $5,694 | 4 | 0% |
| St Norbert College Inc | $5,036 | 4 | 0% |
| Western Technical College | $3,520 | 2 | n/a |
| Edgewood University Inc | $2,601 | 2 | 0% |
| University of St Thomas | $2,397 | 1 | 0% |
| Ripon College | $2,397 | 1 | 0% |
| Concordia University Inc | $2,286 | 2 | 0% |
| Colorado Christian University | $1,550 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint Joseph's University | $1,550 | 1 | 0% |
| Luther College | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Macalester College | $1,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Northland College | $1,320 | 1 | 0% |
| Dordt University | $1,320 | 1 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $1,275 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Indiana Wesleyan University | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($634k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tobola Educational Trust 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: Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc · Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc · Lee Griffin Scholarship Fund · Culver's Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Tobola Educational Trust
- How much does Tobola Educational Trust give?
- Tobola Educational Trust reported 22 grants totaling $87,154 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Tobola Educational Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (82%), Arts & Culture (5%), Recreation & Sports (2%).
- Who are Tobola Educational Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin ($95k), Viterbo University ($8k), Cornell University ($7k).
- Does Tobola Educational Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tobola Educational Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tobola Educational Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc, Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc, Lee Griffin Scholarship Fund.
- Where is Tobola Educational Trust based?
- Tobola Educational Trust is based in MN.
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