GrantmakersMinnesota

Stratacor

Minneapolis, MN · EIN 41-1852523. Reported 86 grants totalling $1,627,925 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

50organizations funded
$12,500median reported grant
$1,627,925granted, 2021-2024
50%of grantees funded again the next year
15%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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 15% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $12,500. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,091 and the largest $100,000. 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
21 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
43 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
14 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
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
Minnesota Sports and EventsBloomington, MN$237,500442024
Portico HealthnetMinneapolis, MN$121,000332024
The Sanneh Foundation IncSaint Paul, MN$75,500432024
Mental Health Resources IncSaint Paul, MN$75,000222022
Science Museum of MinnesotaSaint Paul, MN$67,500112023
University of St ThomasSt Paul, MN$63,750332024
Cook Area Health Services IncCook, MN$62,500112024
Hennepin Health FoundationMinneapolis, MN$58,000332024
Greater Bemidji IncBemidji, MN$52,500222023
Community Dental CareMaplewood, MN$50,000222022
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationSaint Paul, MN$50,000112021
United Negro College Fund IncWashington, DC$42,500332024
Accesspoint Dental LLCWest St Paul, MN$36,834332023
Mill City Farmers Market Charitable FundMinneapolis, MN$36,000442024
Second Harvest HeartlandBrooklyn Park, MN$35,000332023
Bolder OptionsMinneapolis, MN$34,435332024
Special Olympics Minnesota IncMinneapolis, MN$32,500222023
Childrens Defense FundWashington, DC$30,000112021
Greater Minneapolis Crisis NurseryMinneapolis, MN$30,000222022
St Marys Health ClinicsSaint Paul, MN$26,000222023
Downtown Council of MinneapolisMinneapolis, MN$25,000112023
St Catherine UniversitySaint Paul, MN$25,000112022
The Rae Mackenzie Group IncMinneapolis, MN$23,000222024
Sahan JournalSaint Paul, MN$22,500222022
Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association of Se Minnesota IncRochester, MN$20,000222022
The Bridge for YouthMinneapolis, MN$20,000222022
University of Minnesota FoundationMinneapolis, MN$18,252222024
Hammer Residences IncWayzata, MN$17,500112023
Minnesota Dental Foundation IncMinneapolis, MN$15,000112022
North Dakota Dental FoundationFargo, ND$15,000112024
Ann Bancroft FoundationSaint Paul, MN$14,250112024
Northside Achievement ZoneMinneapolis, MN$13,700222024
American National Red CrossWashington, DC$12,779222024
Boys & Girls Club of RochesterRochester, MN$12,500112022
Boys and Girls Club of the Bemidji AreaBemidji, MN$12,500112022
Migizi Communications IncMinneapolis, MN$12,500112022
Oasis for YouthBloomington, MN$12,500112022
Welch Center IncDuluth, MN$12,500112022
Young Womens Christian AssociationSaint Paul, MN$12,500112022
YWCA of MinneapolisMinneapolis, MN$12,500112022
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central MinnesotaSaint Cloud, MN$10,000112021
Childrens Health Care FoundationMinneapolis, MN$10,000112024
Mankato Youth Place IncMankato, MN$10,000112022
University of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN$10,000112021
Minnesota Aurora FcEagan, MN$9,000112024
Houston County Public Health & Human ServicesCaledonia, MN$7,500112024
Keystone Community ServicesSaint Paul, MN$7,500112022
Minnesota Dental AssociationMinneapolis, MN$7,000112024
Native American Community ClinicMinneapolis, MN$5,750112024
Commonbond CommunitiesSt Paul, MN$5,175112021

23 of 50 (46%) 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.

It also reported 2 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 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 50 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.

Education
8 orgs
Health Care
7 orgs
Human Services
7 orgs
Youth Development
5 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Civil Rights
2 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202121$457,175$13,500
202227$439,103$12,500
202318$428,572$15,500
202420$303,075$11,250

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

94% 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
$1.5M
District of Columbia
$85K
North Dakota
$15K

Down to the city

Minneapolis, MN
$485K
Saint Paul, MN
$376K
Bloomington, MN
$250K
Washington, DC
$85K
St Paul, MN
$69K
Bemidji, MN
$65K

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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.

Delta Dental of Minnesota42 shared recipientsOtto Bremer Trust29 shared recipientsSaint Paul & Minnesota Foundation26 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc26 shared recipientsThe Minneapolis Foundation24 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund24 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 $12,500 -- 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 Stratacor's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 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: 500 Washington Ave S 2060, Minneapolis, MN, 55415.

EIN 41-1852523 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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