Cummins Family Foundation

• The filing shows grants mainly to schools, a university, churches and outreach organisations, chiefly as general operating support, so a request for operating funds from a group in one of those fields is the closest fit.
• The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold application is not the route, and the filing does not say how invitations are issued.
• Half of its 16 grants to organisations were $200,000 or less and the median was $200,000, so a request near that level suits its usual pattern, though its typical band runs from $50,000 to $2,500,000 and the largest grant was $3,000,000, so that band is not a ceiling.
• Some 78% of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had funded in earlier filings, so a new group should expect repeat recipients to take up much of its giving.
• Its grants are concentrated in Minnesota, with others in North Dakota, California, Wisconsin and Louisiana, but no geographic focus is stated, so this spread describes past giving rather than a rule about who may apply.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Providence Academy · General operations
  $2,500,0002024 tax year
• Pepperdine University · General operations
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Saint Paul's Outreach · General operations
  $250,0002024 tax year
• We Share · General operations
  $100,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.