Minnesota · Private foundation
Trustone 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.
- $475k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $71,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 61
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $349k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 59% of the organizations Trustone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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 | 62 | $475k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $208k | 59% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $209k | 65% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $176k | 68% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $100k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $159k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolder Options | $102,500 | 6 | 4% |
| The Sanneh Foundation | $102,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Highland Friendship Club | $62,346 | 6 | 3% |
| 360 Communities | $43,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Tee It Up for the Troops Inc | $37,177 | 5 | 0% |
| Spare Key | $34,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Suicide Awareness Voices of Education | $33,882 | 3 | 1% |
| Minnesota State University Mankato Foundation Inc | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $28,327 | 6 | 0% |
| People Reaching Out to Other People Inc | $23,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 133 recipients with no EIN on record ($483k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Trustone 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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Russell T Lund Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Trustone Foundation
- How much does Trustone Foundation give?
- Trustone Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $474,512 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Trustone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (29%), Education (26%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Trustone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bolder Options ($103k), The Sanneh Foundation ($103k), Highland Friendship Club ($62k).
- Does Trustone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Trustone 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 Trustone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation.
- Where is Trustone Foundation based?
- Trustone Foundation is based in MN.
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