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College of St Scholastica Inc

Duluth, MN · EIN 41-0698301. Reported 72 grants totalling $2,303,610 to 34 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

34organizations funded
$13,282median reported grant
$2,303,610granted, 2020-2024
58%of grantees funded again the next year
44%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For College of St Scholastica Inc, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B420) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 34 distinct organizations, with 44% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 58% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $13,282. Half of what it reported fell between $7,136 and $30,325; the smallest was $5,122 and the largest $509,597. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
26 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
27 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
3 grants
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Duluth Clinic LtdDuluth, MN$1,018,967552024
Centracare ClinicSaint Cloud, MN$223,084552024
Brightwater HealthDuluth, MN$145,354332024
Fairview Health ServicesMinneapolis, MN$132,259442024
Allina Health SystemMinneapolis, MN$111,647742024
St Cloud HospitalSaint Cloud, MN$81,684442024
Accend Services IncDuluth, MN$76,806112020
Deer River Health Care Center IncDeer River, MN$70,700552024
Range Regional Health ServicesHibbing, MN$68,815222022
Lakewood Health SystemStaples, MN$38,891442024
St Lukes Hospital of DuluthDuluth, MN$37,943112024
Nystrom & Associates LtdNew Brighton, MN$33,988222022
St Marys Regional Health CenterDetroit Lakes, MN$28,828222024
Astera HealthWadena, MN$28,410332024
Park Nicollet Health ServicesSt Louis Park, MN$20,483222022
Sanford Thief River FallsFargo, ND$19,335112021
Mankato Clinic LtdMankato, MN$17,891222024
Family Service Rochester IncRochester, MN$15,845112021
SanfordSioux Falls, SD$15,071112021
Grand Itasca Clinic and HospitalGrand Rapids, MN$12,516112022
Northfield HospitalNorthfield, MN$11,776222022
Lutheran Social Service of MinnesotaSaint Paul, MN$11,230222023
Open Cities Health Center IncSaint Paul, MN$8,881112021
Northwood Childrens Home Society IncDuluth, MN$8,107112021
Healthpartners RcBloomington, MN$7,199112022
Group Health IncBloomington, MN$7,136112020
Riverwood Health Care Center & Comm Hospital FoundationAitkin, MN$7,122112024
Carris Health LLCWillmar, MN$7,027112021
Matheny Therapy & Consulting LclDuluth, MN$6,905112021
Cuyuna Regional Medical CenterCrosby, MN$6,707112023
Ridgeview Medical CenterWaconia, MN$6,437112021
CandidNew York, NY$5,946112024
Stellis Health PaMonticello, MN$5,334112024
Amp Group LLCDuluth, MN$5,286112022

16 of 34 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 30 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 23 of 34 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
17 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202010$408,628$30,828
202121$404,451$13,006
202216$482,598$13,401
202310$263,727$11,650
202415$744,206$8,189

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

98% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Minnesota
$2.3M
North Dakota
$19K
South Dakota
$15K
New York
$6K

Down to the city

Duluth, MN
$1.3M
Saint Cloud, MN
$305K
Minneapolis, MN
$244K
Deer River, MN
$71K
Hibbing, MN
$69K
Staples, MN
$39K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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.

National Philanthropic Trust5 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America5 shared recipientsAmerican Heart Association Inc5 shared recipientsSaint Paul & Minnesota Foundation5 shared recipientsMinnesota Hospital Association4 shared recipientsHennepin Healthcare System Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $13,282 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Minnesota.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from College of St Scholastica Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1200 Kenwood Avenue, Duluth, MN, 55811.

EIN 41-0698301 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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