Grants awarded
Who does Glen Helgeson Foundation fund?
Glen Helgeson Foundation has awarded $1.1 million across 192 grants to 48 grantees between 2020 and 2025. Its giving concentrates in arts & culture. Its typical grant is $5,000, with most between $2,500 and $9,000. Repeat grantees receive a median $5,000 versus $1,750 for first-time grantees.
Total awarded
$1.1M
Typical grant
$5K
Grantees
48
Grants
192
Years
2020–2025
Organizations this funder supports
Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.
| Grantee | Total received | Grants | Years | Latest | State | Support |
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Climate Generation
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$92K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
Brownbody
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$85K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
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$83K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
Voyageur Outward Bound School
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$80K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
Wilderness Inquiry INC
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$58K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
Penumbra Theatre Company INC
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$57K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
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$45K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
Center for Irish Music INC
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$43K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
American Composers Forum
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$41K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center
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$40K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | MN | |
The Loppet Foundation INC
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$37K | 4 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
| W Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center | $36K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| T The Loppet Fndn | $30K | 3 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| I Interact | $30K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $26K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| E Ernest Oberholtzer Foundation | $26K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$24K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
| I Individual recipient | $21K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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Hopewell Music Cooperative-North
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$20K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
| I Individual recipient | $19K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| I Interact | $18K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $16K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$15K | 4 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
| S Sieg & Doris Fischer Fdn-Agy-Main | $15K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Youth Farm INC
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$14K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
| F Friends of Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge INC | $14K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
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$12K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
| S Spark-Y | $12K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| S Spark-Y | $12K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| J Jazz Central Studios | $10K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
| I Individual recipient | $10K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| F Friends of Sherburne Natl Wildlife | $9K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| E Ernest Oberholtzer Foundation | $8K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $7K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$6K | 4 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
Commusication
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$6K | 4 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
Walker West Music Academy
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$6K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | MN | |
| K Kbem Radio- Jazz 88 Fm | $5K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| W Wtip Cook County Community Radio | $4K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| A American Indian Community Housing Organization | $4K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $4K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| I In-Progress | $4K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $3K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $2K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$1K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | MN | |
| W Wtip - Cook County Community Radio | $1K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$500 | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | MN | |
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$500 | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA |
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