Michael and Nancy Keller Family
Owatonna, MN · EIN 26-0429838. Reported 78 grants totalling $30,625 to 59 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Michael and Nancy Keller Family did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $50. Half of everything it gave fell between $50 and $200; the smallest was $50 and the largest $5,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wallin Education Partners | St Paul, MN | $17,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest Inc | Owatonna, MN | $4,850 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Music Boosters of Owatonna | Owatonna, MN | $1,050 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Isd 761 Foundation | Owatonna, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Pathways of Steele County Inc | Owatonna, MN | $900 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Steele County Humane Society | Owatonna, MN | $550 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rachel's Light | Owatonna, MN | $350 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Jude's Research Hospital | Memphis, TN | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alzheimers Association | Grand Rapids, MI | $250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Feed My Starving Children | Eagan, MN | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unicef | New York, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Cancer Society | Hagerstown, MD | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Direct Relief | Goleta, CA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hope for the Day | Chicago, IL | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Minnesota Association of Children's Mental Health | St Paul, MN | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House | Rochester, MN | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| We All Play - Owatonna Area Chamber Foundation | Owatonna, MN | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beds for Kids | Owatonna, MN | $150 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota | Owatonna, MN | $100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Muslim Society of Owatonna | Owatonna, MN | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Lighthouse of Southern Minnesota | Meriden, MN | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Turner Syndrome Society | Houston, TX | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emplify Health Hospice | Green Bay, WI | $75 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | New York City, NY | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Red Cross | Washington, DC | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bbbs of Southern Minnesota | Faribault, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Black Girls Code | San Francisco, CA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation | New Yok, NY | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Camp Omega | Waterville, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Children's Home Society of Mn | St Paul, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Children's Hospital Association | Lenexa, KS | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church | Owatonna, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Donate Life America | Richmond, VA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eagles Cancer Telethon | Rochester, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| From the Heart | Owatonna, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Good Sports | Braintree, MA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Great North Innocence Project | Minneapolis, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hungry for Music | Washington, DC | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Let's Go Fishing | Willmar, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Theatre of Owatonna | Owatonna, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Minnesota Special Hockey | Minneapolis, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Multiple Sclerosis Society | New York City, NY | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Open Arms Suicide Prevention Program | Claremont, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Safe | Swisher, IA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reading Is Fundamental | Washington, DC | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Save the Children | Fairfield, CT | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Second Harvest Heartland | Brooklyn Park, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Southeast Mn Regional Crisis Center | Rochester, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Spero Academy | Brooklyn Park, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Jude's Children's Hospital | Memphis, TN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Vincent De Paul Society | Faribault, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Steele Co Relay for Life - American Cancer Society | Eagan, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Crohns and Colitis Foundn | Roseville, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Trevor Project | West Hollywood, CA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Wildcat Sanctuary | Sandstone, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Transitional Housing of Steele County | Owatonna, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | Owatonna, MN | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yemen Aid | Yonkers, NY | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
10 of 59 (17%) 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 33%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
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.
- Wallin Education Partners
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO FURTHER PROGRAM MISSION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $3,150 | $50 |
| 2022 | 14 | $8,900 | $50 |
| 2023 | 14 | $8,550 | $50 |
| 2024 | 18 | $8,550 | $50 |
| 2025 | 15 | $1,475 | $50 |
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
92% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $50. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Minnesota.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Michael and Nancy Keller Family's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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: 1745 Denmark Place, Owatonna, MN, 55060. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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