Minnesota · Private foundation
Tradition Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 118
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Tradition Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 4 | $4k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $52k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $760k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $777k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 118 | $577k | 79% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $147k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whispers of Hope | $574,215 | 3 | 56% |
| Every Third Saturday Inc | $407,000 | 4 | 19% |
| United Heroes League | $175,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Eagles Healing Nest | $75,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Dinomights | $74,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Center City Housing Corp | $66,178 | 3 | 0% |
| Education Foundation of Bloomington | $52,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hopekids Inc | $40,823 | 5 | 0% |
| Lakes Area Habitat for Humanity | $35,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Community Action Center Inc | $33,729 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 162 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($362k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tradition Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 144 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Graco Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Russell T Lund Charitable Trust · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Bame Foundation
How this is measured
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About Tradition Family Foundation
- How much does Tradition Family Foundation give?
- Tradition Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $4,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 118 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Tradition Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Human Services (21%), Animals (11%).
- Who are Tradition Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Whispers of Hope ($574k), Every Third Saturday Inc ($407k), United Heroes League ($176k).
- Does Tradition Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tradition Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tradition Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Tradition Family Foundation based?
- Tradition Family Foundation is based in MN.
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