Minnesota · Private foundation
We Can Learn
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.
- $477k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,707
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $439,375
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $167k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations We Can Learn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 9 | $477k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $75k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $1.7M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $117k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Breakthrough Collaborative | $2,205,568 | 2 | 38% |
| Alight | $85,080 | 3 | 0% |
| Childhelp Inc | $77,012 | 3 | 0% |
| Emerald Youth Foundation | $29,597 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids on Point Inc | $26,257 | 2 | 2% |
| Care Fresno Inc | $21,856 | 3 | 4% |
| Project Success | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Biz Builder | $3,850 | 1 | 4% |
| Project Build Swfl | $3,607 | 1 | 0% |
| Raising Expectations Inc | $2,797 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Breakthrough Collaborative | $2,205,568 | 2 | 38% |
| Alight | $85,080 | 3 | 0% |
| Childhelp Inc | $77,012 | 3 | 0% |
| Emerald Youth Foundation | $29,597 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids on Point Inc | $26,257 | 2 | 2% |
| Care Fresno Inc | $21,856 | 3 | 4% |
| Project Success | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Biz Builder | $3,850 | 1 | 4% |
| Project Build Swfl | $3,607 | 1 | 0% |
| Raising Expectations Inc | $2,797 | 1 | 0% |
| Kim's Open Door Inc | $707 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
We Can Learn supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About We Can Learn
- How much does We Can Learn give?
- We Can Learn reported 9 grants totaling $477,290 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does We Can Learn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Health (4%), International (2%).
- Who are We Can Learn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Breakthrough Collaborative ($2.2M), Alight ($85k), Childhelp Inc ($77k).
- Does We Can Learn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does We Can Learn 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 We Can Learn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is We Can Learn based?
- We Can Learn is based in MN.
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