Minnesota · Private foundation
Trillium Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $496k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 27
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Trillium Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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 | 25 | $451k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $341k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $382k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $387k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lander Climate Action Network | $122,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Wyoming Outdoor Council | $120,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Amherst H Wilder Foundation | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wyofile | $91,200 | 3 | 3% |
| Friends of the Mississippi River | $90,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Neighborhood Development Center Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mn350 | $70,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Jugaad Leadership Program | $45,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Lander Art Center | $42,000 | 4 | 10% |
| The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($363k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Trillium Family 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Elmer L & Eleanor J Andersen Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fairview Foundation · Lander Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Trillium Family Foundation
- How much does Trillium Family Foundation give?
- Trillium Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $496,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Trillium Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (18%), Arts & Culture (9%), Community Improvement (5%).
- Who are Trillium Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lander Climate Action Network ($123k), Wyoming Outdoor Council ($120k), Amherst H Wilder Foundation ($110k).
- Does Trillium Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Trillium Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Trillium Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Fr Bigelow Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.
- Where is Trillium Family Foundation based?
- Trillium Family Foundation is based in MN.
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