Funders › Minnesota

Hiatt Charitable Trust

Eagan, MN · EIN 91-6555958. Reported 42 grants totalling $132,100 to 23 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$132,100granted, 2021-2025
23recipients, as named on its returns
44%of grantees funded again the next year
$522,305assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Hiatt Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $3,500; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $8,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
39 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Linfield UniversityMcminnville, OR$19,300552025
Oregon State UniversityCorvallis, OR$14,500442025
George Fox UniversityNewberg, OR$14,250332025
Utah Valley UniversityOrem, UT$11,500332025
Portland State UniversityPortland, OR$8,500332023
Eastern Oregon UniversityLa Grande, OR$8,000332024
UC San DiegoLa Jolla, CA$7,000222025
Oregon Institute of TechnologyKlamath Falls, OR$6,500332023
Western Oregon UniversityMonmouth, OR$5,300222023
Pacific UniversityForest Grove, OR$4,500112025
University of FloridaGainesville, FL$4,000112024
Willamette UniversitySalem, OR$3,500112021
Brigham Young UniversityProvo, UT$3,000112021
Eastern Oregon University Attn ScholarshipsLa Grande, OR$3,000112021
University of British ColumbiaVancouver, British Columbia$3,000112024
Cal Poly San Luis ObispoSan Luis Obispo, CA$2,500112023
Central Oregon Community CollegeBend, OR$2,500112022
Lane Community CollegeEugene, OR$2,500112022
Salt Lake Community CollegeSalt Lake Cty, UT$2,500112022
Portland Community CollegePortland, OR$2,000112021
Clark CollegeVancouver, WA$1,750112024
Oregon Ins TechKlamath Falls, OR$1,500112024
Seattle UniversitySeattle, WA$1,000112021

9 of 23 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 44%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 17 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
17 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$27,000$3,000
20229$21,300$2,500
20239$27,800$3,000
20249$26,000$3,000
20256$30,000$4,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

73% of its giving went to organizations in Oregon. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Oregon
$96K
Utah
$17K
California
$10K
Florida
$4K
British Columbia
$3K
Washington
$3K

Get funders for your state and cause by email

We email you funders that gave to organizations in your state and cause, up to five at a time each week and never the same one twice, from their own IRS filings. Free. The weekly email has not started yet.

Unsubscribe in one click from any email. We never sell or share your address. To match on your organization and typical grant size too, keep a private profile.

Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsDale Krueger Scholarship8 shared recipientsAl & Ib Thomas Ed'l Fd8 shared recipientsJefferson Scholarship Fund8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Oregon.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hiatt Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 64193, Eagan, MN, 55164. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 91-6555958 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

Is something here wrong about your foundation? Email hello@funderscope.com and we will correct it.