Minnesota · Private foundation
Valley News 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.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Valley News Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 43 | $51k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $47k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $51k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $42k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $42k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $45k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $45k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $41k | 17% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mankato Youth Place Inc | $26,417 | 6 | 1% |
| Twin Rivers Council for the Arts | $17,500 | 9 | 4% |
| Tee It Up for the Troops Inc | $16,107 | 8 | 0% |
| South Central College Foundation | $14,440 | 9 | 0% |
| Educare Foundation Inc | $11,800 | 9 | 2% |
| Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota | $11,105 | 9 | 0% |
| Bethany Lutheran College Inc | $10,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Feeding Our Communities Partners | $8,250 | 7 | 0% |
| One Bright Star | $6,600 | 8 | 2% |
| The Young Men's Christian Assoc of Mankato Inc | $6,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Valley News 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: Mankato Area Foundation · Glen a Taylor Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · L & N Andreas Foundation · Jones Page Jacobson Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Olseth Foundation · Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation · Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council · The Taylor Foundation
How this is measured
About Valley News Foundation
- How much does Valley News Foundation give?
- Valley News Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $50,884 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Valley News Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Human Services (14%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Valley News Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mankato Youth Place Inc ($26k), Twin Rivers Council for the Arts ($18k), Tee It Up for the Troops Inc ($16k).
- Does Valley News Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Valley News 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 Valley News Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mankato Area Foundation, Glen a Taylor Foundation, Mayo Clinic Group Return.
- Where is Valley News Foundation based?
- Valley News Foundation is based in MN.
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