FundersMinnesota

Minnco Credit Union Foundation Inc

North Branch, MN · EIN 81-5299610. Reported 66 grants totalling $182,414 to 56 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$750median grant
$182,414granted, 2021-2024
56organizations funded
10%of grantees funded again the next year
$49,455assets, 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. Minnco Credit Union Foundation Inc 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 $750. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,000; the smallest was $150 and the largest $38,857. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
37 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
23 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Childrens MiracleSaint Paul, MN$113,511332024
BanzaiProvo, UT$21,441332024
Family PathwaysNorth Branch, MN$6,000322024
Hope 4 YouthMinneapolis, MN$2,199222024
Ci Dollars for ScholarsCambridge, MN$2,000112022
Big Lake Food ShelfBig Lake, MN$1,500112024
Isanti County IntegrateCambridge, MN$1,500112022
New Pathways Shelter AnCambridge, MN$1,500112024
Spark 2 HopeElk River, MN$1,500112022
Viking VittlesNorth Branch, MN$1,500112023
Passing the BreadZimmerman, MN$1,250222024
Soup for the SoulMora, MN$1,250222024
Acbc Food ShelfAnoka, MN$1,000112022
Big Lake CommunityBig Lake, MN$1,000112022
Big Lake School DistricBig Lake, MN$1,000112022
Books for Better MnNorth Branch, MN$1,000112024
Friends of SherbourneZimmerman, MN$1,000112023
Gracepoint Crossing McbCambridge, MN$1,000112023
HOPE4YOUTH Teen HomelesMinneapolis, MN$1,000112022
Isanti Co Integrated CoCambridge, MN$1,000112023
Isanti County Food PantCambridge, MN$1,000112022
Isanti Cty Beyond the YCambridge, MN$1,000112024
Kinship Youth PrincetonPrinceton, MN$1,000112022
Nace Food ShelfCedar, MN$1,000112024
Cambridge Isanti SchoolCambridge, MN$864112023
Mora Food PantryMora, MN$750112024
Outside Operations BigBig Lake, MN$750112023
Rivers of Hope Big LakeMonticello, MN$750112023
Ruff Start RescuePrinceton, MN$750112024
Allina Health FoundatioCambridge, MN$500112023
Anoka Community MissionCedar, MN$500112024
Cambridge Fire DeptCambridge, MN$500112021
Cambridge SR ActivityCambridge, MN$500112023
Isanti County SheriffCambridge, MN$500112021
Lakes and PinesMora, MN$500112022
Lakes Ctr for Youth andForest Lake, MN$500112022
Mission 610 CambridgeStanchfield, MN$500112023
NaceCedar, MN$500112022
Nb Area Education FoundNorth Branch, MN$500112022
North Branch LionsNorth Branch, MN$500112022
Passing the Bread PrinZimmerman, MN$500112023
Feed My Starving ChildrMinneapolis, MN$475222022
Big Lake SchoolsBig Lake, MN$432112023
Braham Area SchoolsBraham, MN$432112023
East Bethel ElementaryCedar, MN$432112023
North Branch SchoolsNorth Branch, MN$432112023
Princeton Public SchoolPrinceton, MN$432112023
Angel TreeCambridge, MN$400112021
New Pathways ShelterCambridge, MN$350112022
Alexandra House DomestiMinneapolis, MN$300112021
Family Pathways B DogNorth Branch, MN$300112021
Haven for Heroes ShelteAnoka, MN$300112021
Polaris Battalion USCambridge, MN$300112021
Haven 4 HeroesAnoka, MN$289112023
North Branch Lions ClubNorth Branch, MN$275112021
The Wave Youth CenterBig Lake, MN$250112021

7 of 56 (12%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 10%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
6 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Education
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Community Improvement
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202110$3,450$300
202222$65,853$1,000
202320$58,362$625
202414$54,749$1,000

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 88% of this one's giving went to organizations in Minnesota. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Minnesota
$161K
Utah
$21K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Connexus Energy Foundation7 shared recipientsMightycause Charitable Foundation6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsXcel Energy Foundation6 shared recipientsHunger Solutions Minnesota5 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $750. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Minnesota.
  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 Minnco Credit Union Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 38877 10TH Ave, North Branch, MN, 55056. 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 81-5299610 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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