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Security State Bank Foundation

Hibbing, MN · EIN 41-1830282. Reported 71 grants totalling $60,370 to 48 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$60,370granted, 2021-2025
48recipients, as named on its returns
35%of grantees funded again the next year
$287,553assets, latest filing

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. Security State Bank Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,000; the smallest was $150 and the largest $3,400. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
32 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
39 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Salvation ArmyHibbing, MN$5,200332023
United Way Ne MnChisholm, MN$4,350432025
Hibbing Farmers MarketHibbing, MN$4,000552025
Angel FundHibbing, MN$3,250442024
Boys and Girls Club - HibbingHibbing, MN$2,000222022
Boys and Girls Club of HibbingHibbing, MN$2,000222025
Hcc Foundation for Paulucci Space TheaterHibbing, MN$2,000112021
Hibbing Little LeagueHibbing, MN$2,000222025
Paulucci Space TheatreHibbing, MN$2,000112023
Veterans Community Thrift StoreHibbing, MN$2,000222022
Mines and Pines Revisited CommitteeHibbing, MN$1,770222023
Hibbing Tourist Senior Citizen CenterHibbing, MN$1,750332025
Crescendo Youth OrchestraHibbing, MN$1,700222022
Range Nordic GlidersHibbing, MN$1,500222023
Arrowhead Economic Opp AgencyVirginia, MN$1,000112023
Boy Scouts of Am - Voageurs Area CouncilHermantown, MN$1,000222024
Boy Scouts of Am - Voyageurs CouncilHermantown, MN$1,000112022
Central Range Pickle Ball ClubHibbing, MN$1,000112022
Crescendo OrchestraHibbing, MN$1,000112024
Fairview Range - Hearts for HospiceHibbing, MN$1,000112024
Hibbing Area ChamberHibbing, MN$1,000112025
Hibbing Band Parents OrgHibbing, MN$1,000112024
Hibbing Historical SocietyHibbing, MN$1,000112025
Independent School District 701Hibbing, MN$1,000112022
Light After LossHibbing, MN$1,000112025
Lincoln Parent Teacher OrgHibbing, MN$1,000112024
MdiHibbing, MN$1,000112021
Mid Range Honor GuardHibbing, MN$1,000112023
Northern Star ScoutingHermantown, MN$1,000112025
Pregnancy Lifecare CenterHibbing, MN$1,000222024
Sturgeon Chain Lake AssocSide Lake, MN$1,000112025
Alzheimer's AssociationChicago, IL$500112023
Care PartnersEveleth, MN$500112025
Chisholm Kids PlusChisholm, MN$500112023
Families and Communities Thrive TogetherEly, MN$500112025
Family Life Center RangeHibbing, MN$500112025
Hibbing Elks Lodge #1022Hibbing, MN$500112022
Hibbing-Chisholm Rangers Spec OlympicsHibbing, MN$500112025
Ironworld Development CorpChisholm, MN$500112024
MdcfairviewHibbing, MN$500112025
N St Louis County 4-HVirginia, MN$500112025
N St Louis County 4H FederationVirginia, MN$500112023
Northern Aquatics Swim ClubHibbing, MN$500112025
Project Care Free ClinicHibbing, MN$500112023
West Range Composite Mtn Bike TeamHibbing, MN$500112022
Bearville First RespondersSide Lake, MN$400112021
Cherry Parent Teacher OrganizationIron, MN$300112023
Northland CounselingHibbing, MN$150112025

14 of 48 (29%) 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 35%, 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.

Plus 10 grants to individuals totalling $10,000 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 21 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.

Health Care
6 grants
Food & Nutrition
5 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202110$12,070$1,000
202214$12,000$1,000
202316$12,300$500
202413$12,000$1,000
202518$12,000$500

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

99% 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.

Minnesota
$60K
Illinois
$500

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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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation6 shared recipientsUnited Way of Ne Minnesota4 shared recipientsNorthland Foundation3 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc2 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc2 shared recipientsThe Minneapolis Foundation2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Minnesota.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Security State Bank Foundation'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: 701 East Howard St, Hibbing, MN, 55746. 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.

EIN 41-1830282 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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