Minnesota · Private foundation
Weesner Charitable Trust Fund
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.
- $68k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Weesner Charitable Trust Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Minneapolis Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,117
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Weesner Charitable Trust Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $6k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $6k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $6k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $6k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carleton College | $10,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $10,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $3,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Minnesota Orchestral Association | $2,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Vision Loss Resources Inc | $2,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts | $2,700 | 9 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
About Weesner Charitable Trust Fund
- How much does Weesner Charitable Trust Fund give?
- Weesner Charitable Trust Fund reported 9 grants totaling $68,117 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Weesner Charitable Trust Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (93%), Religion (3%), Education (2%).
- Who are Weesner Charitable Trust Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Carleton College ($11k), Greater Twin Cities United Way ($11k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($3k).
- Does Weesner Charitable Trust Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Weesner Charitable Trust Fund 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.
- Where is Weesner Charitable Trust Fund based?
- Weesner Charitable Trust Fund is based in MN.
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