Minnesota · Private foundation
W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $523k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 10 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $46k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $38k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $38k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $44k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $45k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $39k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $30k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| College of St Scholastica Inc | $61,250 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota | $54,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Elmhurst University | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Drake University | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Northwestern - St Paul | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin | $10,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Northern Michigan University | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($161k), not named here.
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust
- How much does W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust give?
- W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust reported 10 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (95%), Community Improvement (3%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: College of St Scholastica Inc ($61k), University of Minnesota ($55k), Elmhurst University ($14k).
- Does W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust based?
- W & a Soneson Scholarship Trust is based in MN.
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