Driscoll Foundation
St Paul, MN · EIN 41-6012065. Reported 468 grants totalling $14.3M to 132 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Driscoll Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
6 of the organizations Driscoll Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 22 grants totalling $8,485,150 to them. That is 64% of the $13.4M of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Endowment Foundation | community foundation | Ohio | $8,050,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | Its form does not ask |
| Communitygiving | community foundation | Minnesota | $252,500 | 11 | 4 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | federated giving programme | Minnesota | $105,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| The Denver Foundation | community foundation | Colorado | $51,150 | 2 | 2 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
| Community Foundation Boulder County | community foundation | Colorado | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
| Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation | community foundation | Minnesota | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $10,722; the smallest was $500 and the largest $8,050,000.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Endowment Foundation | Hudson, OH | $8,050,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Paul Academy and Summit School | Saint Paul, MN | $453,958 | 13 | 5 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation | Chaska, MN | $405,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Public Radio | Saint Paul, MN | $355,000 | 12 | 5 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood House | Saint Paul, MN | $350,000 | 9 | 5 | 2024 |
| Dodge Nature Center | West St Paul, MN | $275,000 | 10 | 5 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Historical Society | Saint Paul, MN | $259,000 | 11 | 5 | 2024 |
| Communitygiving | Saint Cloud, MN | $252,500 | 11 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tacoma Art Museum | Tacoma, WA | $215,000 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Mississippi River | Saint Paul, MN | $210,000 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Annie Wright School | Tacoma, WA | $141,912 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Wilderness Inquiry Inc | St Paul, MN | $116,000 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Mississippi Park Connection | Saint Paul, MN | $110,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | Minneapolis, MN | $105,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Arts Partnership | Saint Paul, MN | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Family Partnership | Minneapolis, MN | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Minnesota Land Trust | Saint Paul, MN | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Multicare Health Foundation | Tacoma, WA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Legacy of the Lakes Museum | Alexandria, MN | $75,413 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Children's Museum of Tacoma - Greentrike | Tacoma, WA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Denver Health Foundation | Denver, CO | $75,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| International Institute of Minnesota | Saint Paul, MN | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| St John's Abbey Woodworking | Collegeville, MN | $75,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $72,625 | 9 | 5 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood of North Central States | Saint Paul, MN | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Denver Art Museum | Denver, CO | $62,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Avon Hills Folk School | Avon, MN | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Great River Greening | Saint Paul, MN | $55,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Children's Museum | Saint Paul, MN | $55,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Colorado Public Radio | Centennial, CO | $52,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Denver Foundation | Denver, CO | $51,150 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (cure) | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Colorado College | Colorado Springs, CO | $50,000 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Empowered Life Church | Talent, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Minnesota Museum of American Art | Saint Paul, MN | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center | Finland, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Washington, DC | $48,420 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Camargo Foundation | Saint Paul, MN | $45,000 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Carleton College | Northfield, MN | $45,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Runestone Museum Foundation | Alexandria, MN | $45,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dawson School | Lafayette, CO | $41,000 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Council on Foundations | Minneapolis, MN | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Asia Pacific Cultural Center | Tacoma, WA | $37,500 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fidelity Charitable | Boston, MA | $37,212 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Milkweed Editions Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $36,500 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery | Minneapolis, MN | $34,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Western Resource Advocates | Boulder, CO | $32,990 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation of the San Luis Valley | Alamosa, CO | $31,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $30,500 | 19 | 5 | 2024 |
| Native Governance Center | Minneapolis, MN | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Bridge for Youth | Minneapolis, MN | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Volunteers of America | Denver, CO | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation | Leawood, KS | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Bennington College Corporation | Bennington, VT | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cameron and Hayden Lord Foundation | New York, NY | $25,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Courageous Parents Network | Newton, MA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Darrow School | New Lebanon, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Davis Phinney Foundation | Louisville, CO | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Eco-Cycle | Boulder, CO | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Friends of the St Paul Public Library | Saint Paul, MN | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| House of Hope Presbyterian Church | St Paul, MN | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Minneapolis Institute of Arts | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Nature Conservancy Inc | Arlington, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Science Museum of Minnesota | Saint Paul, MN | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Washington Foundation | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Resource Center | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mental Health Association of Colorado | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Neighborhood Development Alliance | Saint Paul, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Colorado Foundation | Denver, CO | $19,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation Serving Boulder County | Boulder, CO | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American University in Cairo | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Colorado Shakespeare Festival Guild | Boulder, CO | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Oakland Cemetery Association | Saint Paul, MN | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Wind Orchestra | Circle Pines, MN | $13,198 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Long Live the Kings | Seattle, WA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Northwest Watershed Institute | Port Townsend, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hotchkiss School | Lakeville, CT | $11,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Annie Wright Schools | Tacoma, WA | $11,258 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Kooch I Ching | Cincinnati, OH | $10,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trust for Public Land | San Francisco, CA | $10,192 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American University in Cairo | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Henry L Stimson Center | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Center for Book Arts | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Open Book | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pasado's Safe Haven | Sultan, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Playwrights' Center | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Savory Institute | Boulder, CO | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Someplace Safe | Fergus Falls, MN | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Washington University in St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias | Fairview Hts, IL | $9,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Avenues for Youth | Minneapolis, MN | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Carbon Removal | Washington, DC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Health Story Collaborative Inc | Cambridge, MA | $7,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ipoderac's Children Fund | Denver, CO | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Nature Conservancy - Minnesota | Arlington, VA | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Georgia Conservation Voters Education Fund Inc | Atlanta, GA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund | Springfield, IL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Ann Arbor, MI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Agros International | Seattle, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bates College | Lewiston, ME | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Chatham Hall | Chatham, VA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Children's Museum of Tacoma | Tacoma, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Headwaters Relief Organization | Golden Valley, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| La Compagnie | Mendota, MN | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lels Police Benevolent Fund | Brooklyn Center, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Macalester College | Saint Paul, MN | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Minneapolis College of Art & Design | Minneapolis, MN | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Minnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund | Minneapolis, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Museum of Glass | Tacoma, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Impact Fund | Minneapolis, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Noatun Community Wooden Boat Works | Duluth, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rise Education Fund | Sherman Oaks, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sugarloaf the North Shore Stewardship Association | Duluth, MN | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Think Small | Saint Paul, MN | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Vassar College | Poughkeepsie, NY | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Walker Art Center | Minneapolis, MN | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Children's Home Society | St Paul, MN | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Westminster Presbyterian Church | Minneapolis, MN | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Presbyterian Homes Foundation | Roseville, MN | $3,808 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Humane Society of Tacoma and Pierce County | Tacoma, WA | $3,110 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colorado Vincentian Volunteers | Denver, CO | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of Thomas Lowry Park | Minneapolis, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Children's Home & Family Services | Saint Paul, MN | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Children's Home Society & Family Services | Saint Paul, MN | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Stanford Business School | Stanford, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Minnesota Milk Bank for Babies | Golden Valley, MN | $1,608 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington County Historical Society | Stillwater, MN | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
96 of 132 (73%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 79%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Annie Wright School
THE POOL AND UPPER BOYS' SCHOOL BUILDING AND GALA SUPPORT - Tacoma Art Museum
THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN PLEDGE AND IS A 4-YEAR PLEDGE - Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation
SLADE PERENNIAL GARDEN, DRISCOLL FAMILY OVERLOOK AND IS A 4-YEAR PLEDGE - Neighborhood House
THE HOPE IN ACTION CAPITAL CAMPAIGN - Minnesota Public Radio
THE BOARD ANNUAL CAMPAIGN ($15,000), THE HORIZON FUND ($50,000), THE JON MCTAGGART FUND ($10,000), THE INSPIRED BY YOU CAMPAIGN ($25,000) - Children's Museum of Tacoma - Greentrike
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT IN HONOR OF LISA HOFFMAN'S LEADERSHIP
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 313 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 94 | $9,392,126 | $5,000 |
| 2021 | 99 | $1,374,728 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 99 | $1,220,500 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 94 | $1,159,750 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 82 | $1,135,750 | $5,000 |
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
56% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Driscoll Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 30 E 7TH Street Suite 2000, St Paul, MN, 55101. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 41-6012065 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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