Minnesota Chamber Foundation
St Paul, MN · EIN 41-1453093. Reported 65 grants totalling $951,991 to 62 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Minnesota Chamber Foundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in public & societal benefit -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE W11).
- How spread out its giving is. 62 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,474 and $17,895; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $51,913. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premier Lighting | St Paul, MN | $60,264 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Highland Collision Center | St Paul, MN | $51,913 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| O'leary Auto Body Inc | Willernie, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lighten Up LLC | Richfield, MN | $44,117 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Elite Cleaners | Minneapolis, MN | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Minneapolis Propco LLC | Minneapolis, MN | $34,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts | Minneapolis, MN | $28,215 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Retrofit Companies | Little Canada, MN | $27,785 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Focus Arts LLC | Minneapolis, MN | $27,179 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ariel Inc | St Paul, MN | $25,588 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| City of Lakes Waldorf School | Minneapolis, MN | $24,285 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New Rules | Minneapolis, MN | $23,745 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The C Chase Company | St Louis Park, MN | $23,196 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brin Glass Company | Minneapolis, MN | $22,072 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| First Universalist Church | Minneapolis, MN | $17,895 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Graphic Systems | Minneapolis, MN | $17,687 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hmong Village Inc | St Paul, MN | $15,861 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Park Avenue United Met | Minneapolis, MN | $14,570 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| As Soon As Possible Inc | Bloomington, MN | $14,165 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Noodles | Minneapolis, MN | $14,134 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Allina Health System | Minneapolis, MN | $13,540 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Abu-Huraira Islamic Center | Minneapolis, MN | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Minify Energy | St Paul, MN | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Studio Eight | Minneapolis, MN | $12,145 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Posh Properties | Minneapolis, MN | $11,403 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hd Coin Laundry | Rosemount, MN | $11,025 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gassen Company | Eden Prairie, MN | $10,927 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Diamond Vogel | Minneapolis, MN | $10,680 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Becker County Food Pantry Inc | Detroit Lakes, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Church of St Michael | Stillwater, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| First Covenant Church St Paul Mn | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Golden Valley Country Club | Golden Valley, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Joseph and the Worker Catholic Church | Maple Grove, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Michaels Lutheran Church | Bloomington, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the North | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Electric Fetus | Minneapolis, MN | $9,873 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arbor Commercial Group | Minneapolis, MN | $9,662 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | Saint Paul, MN | $9,410 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Faneta Development LLC | Minneapolis, MN | $9,384 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| We Are Nuts LLC | Minneapolis, MN | $9,141 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Magnalick Enterprises Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $9,111 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Uni-Systems LLC | Minneapolis, MN | $8,003 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Edge Associates | Minneapolis, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Millerbernd Manufacturing | Winstead, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sagal Management | Minneapolis, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Lakeville | Lakeville, MN | $7,474 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sup II Quarry Retail L | West Palm Beach, FL | $7,205 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Springfield Area Food Shelf | Springfield, MN | $7,093 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chicago Lake Liquors | Minneapolis, MN | $7,011 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Twins Ballpark | Minneapolis, MN | $6,943 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Artistic Finishes | Roseville, MN | $6,759 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities | Saint Paul, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gatr Trucking | Sauk Rapids, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pillsbury United Communities | Minneapolis, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sun Foods | Brooklyn Center, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cw Loft | Eden Prairie, MN | $5,920 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Source Mn Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $5,817 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ariza Retail Services | Minneapolis, MN | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vestalia Hospitality | Minneapolis, MN | $5,287 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sebastian Joe's Ice Cream | Minneapolis, MN | $5,207 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Winona Chamber of Commerce | Winona, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
3 of 62 (5%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Highland Collision Center
ENERGY AND WASTE PROGRAMS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 9 of 62 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | $272,463 | $13,000 |
| 2021 | 19 | $271,448 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $256,159 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $151,921 | $8,000 |
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
97% 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.
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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 the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Minnesota.
- 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 Minnesota Chamber Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 15 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: 380 Saint Peter Street 1050, St Paul, MN, 55102.
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