Minnesota · Private foundation
W G Christianson 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.
- $645k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations W G Christianson 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; $34k 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 | 37 | $643k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $535k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $531k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $486k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $590k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $153k | 70% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $234k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $112k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery | $425,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Hope Academy Inc | $321,333 | 7 | 0% |
| University Life-Care Center Inc | $206,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Jeremiah Program | $201,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Martha's Village and Kitchen Inc | $171,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Way to Grow | $130,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Southwest Options for Women | $130,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Project for Pride in Living Inc | $115,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart | $115,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Voice of Virtue International | $101,500 | 3 | 35% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($775k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
W G Christianson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Engelsma Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Kimley-Horn Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About W G Christianson Foundation
- How much does W G Christianson Foundation give?
- W G Christianson Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $645,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does W G Christianson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Education (21%), Religion (15%).
- Who are W G Christianson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery ($425k), Hope Academy Inc ($321k), University Life-Care Center Inc ($206k).
- Does W G Christianson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does W G Christianson 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 W G Christianson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is W G Christianson Foundation based?
- W G Christianson Foundation is based in MN.
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