Minnesota · Nonprofit
ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION
ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,614,426 to it, the largest being HUGH J ANDERSEN FOUNDATION ($609,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Ann Bancroft Foundation does
Mission
The Ann Bancroft Foundation inspires and equips girls to dream big, build confidence, and achieve their goals through grants, mentorship, and ongoing leadership development opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Headquartered in st. Paul, minnesota, the Ann Bancroft Foundation continues to provide grants along with fostered mentorship and development tools to k12 girls across minnesota to invest in their potential, build new skills, and set the foundation for future success. In 2025, the foundation awarded 325 grants across 31 counties in minnesota. Of these, 10 were awarded through our second program, the Ann Bancroft Foundation trailblazer fellows, who each receive $2,500, compared to $1,000 for our traditional seed grants.
$802,792 spentof which $300,876 as grants100% of program spendingOur program model combines three powerful levers: direct grants to girls and gender-expansive youth, mentorship, and ongoing development opportunities that expand what young people believe is possible for their lives. We continue to host the largest statewide convening for girls in minnesota, our annual girlhood summit. In 2025, more than 250 young people from across the state gathered at st. Catherine university for a day of connection, exploration, empowerment, and possibility. The summit featured keynote speaker luvvie ajayi, presented in partnership with girl scouts, alongside career panels, interactive stem labs, topical sessions, and ted-style talks from young people already leading change in their communities.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $802,792.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $424k to $793k (+87%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Ethelind B Kaba
Executive director
Board chair
Sarah Strehl
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $19k → $448k.
10 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 36% · 2019 35% · 2020 50% · 2021 58% · 2022 17% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
58% of ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $945k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION?
- ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,614,426 to it, the largest being HUGH J ANDERSEN FOUNDATION ($609,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $2,614,426 in grants to ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION?
- HUGH J ANDERSEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $609,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing