Minnesota · Nonprofit
PRACTICE FOUNDATION
PRACTICE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,810 to it, the largest being THE WHIPPOORWILL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($13,060). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Practice Foundation does
Mission
The Practice Foundation is a nonprofit regranting organization committed to opening access and expanding approaches to the design of the living environment. It is the mission of Practice Foundation to support land-based practices rooted in diverse communities, spaces of injustice and across rural and remote regions. As landscape designers, architects, gardeners, and academics we initiated the Practice Foundation because we identified a gap between the needs of emerging landscape designers and makers, and their access to opportunities for project development and implementation. We believe in the value of practice itself, the measure of daily rituals and the reprise of community action. Some of the smallest, dedicated actions accumulate as powerful tools in the face of rapid climate change, loss in biodiversity, and unchecked development.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Donation to bernard singleton & janelle dunlap to support their project alkebu-lan botanical gardens which focuses on the link between the health of the soil and the health of the supporting community by increasing awareness and experience with undervalued edible plants.
$9,000 spentof which $9,000 as grants47% of program spendingDonation to civic studio new orleans llc to support the seeds + beats project, which expands a meadow planting at the new orleans mosquito, rodent, and termite control board in the gentilly neighborhood by designing on site in alliance with the adjacent residential community. The project engages hands-on in situ design, sidestepping costly construction documents, and acknowledging the inability for professional standards to solely meet community needs in the public realm.
$6,000 spentof which $6,000 as grants32% of program spendingDonation to ariel page + guy dobyns to support the mulch/terrace/live project. This is an applied research project that introduces novel forms of terracing to re-establish plants across clear cut, formerly forested land in the pacific northwest.
$4,000 spentof which $4,000 as grants21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,000.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Rosetta S Elkin
Chair and treasurer
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $11k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 PRACTICE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
PRACTICE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 PRACTICE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 67% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
PRACTICE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PRACTICE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,119 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,119 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like PRACTICE 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRACTICE 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 PRACTICE FOUNDATION?
- PRACTICE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,810 to it, the largest being THE WHIPPOORWILL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($13,060). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRACTICE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $33,810 in grants to PRACTICE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRACTICE FOUNDATION?
- THE WHIPPOORWILL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRACTICE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing