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Holzhueter Foundation

Mankato, MN · EIN 41-1925651. Reported 66 grants totalling $314,500 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$314,500granted, 2021-2024
41organizations funded
35%of grantees funded again the next year
$742,899assets, 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. Holzhueter 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $6,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $23,300. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
41 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Martin Luther CollegeNew Ulm, MN$64,500642024
Kingdom WorkersWaukesha, WI$27,500442024
Mn Valley Lutheran High SchoolNew Ulm, MN$23,300112023
Wisconsin Ev Lutheran SynodMilwaukee, WI$20,500222022
Risen Savior Lutheran SchoolMankato, MN$19,000332023
Minnesota Valley Lutheran High SchoolNew Ulm, MN$12,000222022
St Mark Evangelical Lutheran ChurchMankato, MN$11,000222022
Time of GraceMilwaukee, WI$11,000332023
Lutheran Home of Belle PlaineBelle Plaine, WI$10,000112021
Wisconsin Lutheran CollegeMilwaukee, WI$10,000222022
St Marks Ev Lutheran ChurchMankato, MN$9,000112023
Wels Kingdom WorkersMilwaukee, WI$7,450112023
Costa Maya MinistriesLibertyville, IL$6,500332024
Branch Lutheran Schools - HaitiSt Paul, MN$6,000112021
Shepherd of the Hills ChurchDuluth, MN$5,500222023
Christian Family SolutionsGermantown, WI$5,000222022
New Beginnings-a Home for MothersRichfield, WI$5,000112024
Wels Christian Aid & ReliefWaukesha, WI$5,000112024
Wi Lutheran CollegeWauwatosa, WI$5,000112023
Camp Croix AssociationOsceola, WI$4,000222022
St Marcus Lutheran ChurchMilwaukee, WI$4,000112021
The Way Church - Fredericksburg VaFredricksburg, VA$4,000112021
Friends of ChinaStillwater, MN$3,500112021
Men of His WordAppleton, WI$3,250332023
316 NowWoodville, WI$3,000332023
Branch Lutheran School of HaitiRoseville, MN$3,000112023
Christian Life ResourcesRichfield, WI$3,000112024
Friends NetworkSt Paul, MN$3,000112023
Grace in ActionMinneapolis, MN$3,000112021
Northcross ChurchLakeville, MN$3,000112022
Illumine ChurchRock Hill, SC$2,000112022
Praise and Proclaim Ministries CorporationMeridian, ID$2,000112022
St Paul's Lutheran ChurchMilwaukee, WI$2,000112021
Hearts & HandsNeenah, WI$1,500112023
Ascension Church Rochester MnRochester, MN$1,000112024
Footnotes Trauma FoundationMankato, MN$1,000112023
Luther Preparatory High SchoolWatertown, WI$1,000112021
Mount Zion ChurchKenosha, WI$1,000112021
Salem Lutheran ChurchStillwater, MN$1,000112021
Wisconsin Lutheran SeminaryMequon, WI$1,000112022
Wlcfs Christian Family SolutionsGermantown, WI$1,000112024

14 of 41 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
7 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Mental Health
1 grant
International Affairs
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202124$105,000$2,750
202217$91,500$3,000
202315$86,000$3,000
202410$32,000$2,750

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 54% of this one's giving went to organizations in Minnesota. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Minnesota
$169K
Wisconsin
$131K
Illinois
$6K
Virginia
$4K
South Carolina
$2K
Idaho
$2K

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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 the strongest available signal 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.

Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing9 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsThrivent Financial for Lutherans7 shared recipientsSiebert Lutheran Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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 Holzhueter Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 2019 Mahoe Circle, Mankato, MN, 56001. 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 41-1925651 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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