Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation
EIN 36-3454285 · files IRS Form 990, Schedule I
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 327 grants · $5.5m
Who it funds most
117 of its 303 grantees were funded in more than one year; 2 matching gifts set aside.
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation's own IRS Form 990, Schedule I returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990 Part VII, tax year 2023, filing 202531149349300813
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Return | Assets, year end | Grants paid | Charitable spending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Form 990 | $75.9m | — | $6.9m |
| 2022 | Form 990 | $69.7m | — | $6.5m |
As filed, in US dollars. Assets at fair market value where the return gives it.
Its returns8 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202631199349300218 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202531149349300813 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202401299349300045 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202341159349300039 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202200689349301345 | IRS batch file |
| 2019 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202110409349300221 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202040569349301719 | IRS batch file |
| 2017 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 201910389349300716 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation made 565 grants across 2017–2024, totalling $9.8m as filed.
- Grants
- 565
- Total, as filed
- $9.8m
- Years
- 2017–2024
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| LEO AUGUSTA CHILDREN'S ACADEMY | 4 | $646.0k |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | 3 | $561.0k |
| CITY OF HARMONY | 10 | $228.3k |
| CITY OF FAIRMONT | 5 | $214.9k |
| CITY OF WABASHA | 6 | $180.0k |
| CITY OF BYRON | 3 | $173.6k |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | 1 | $145.0k |
| VILLAGE AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE | 3 | $115.0k |
| RUSHFORD-PETERSON SCHOOLS | 6 | $111.2k |
| MINNESOTA FARMERS' MARKET ASSOCIATION | 1 | $100.0k |
| RENEWING THE COUNTRYSIDE II | 1 | $100.0k |
| CHURCH OF ST ANNE OF LE SUEUR | 5 | $92.0k |
| LEAD FOR AMERICA | 2 | $90.0k |
| CITY OF BLUE EARTH | 5 | $89.6k |
| MAPLE RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT | 2 | $86.1k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 52 | $814.1k |
| 2018 | 41 | $531.9k |
| 2019 | 69 | $934.3k |
| 2020 | 95 | $1.2m |
| 2021 | 69 | $1.4m |
| 2022 | 69 | $1.7m |
| 2023 | 96 | $1.8m |
| 2024 | 74 | $1.5m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-363454285. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified