Funding search · EIN 416038452 · St Paul, MN

William Boss Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

189
grants reported
$1.4M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$6,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Top recipients

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  • Compas3 grants · $54,000
  • Park Square Theatre Company3 grants · $45,000
  • Ordway Center for the Performing Arts3 grants · $37,500
  • Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society3 grants · $37,500
  • Neighborhood House3 grants · $35,000
  • Minnesota Opera Company3 grants · $34,000
  • Family Means3 grants · $33,000
  • Textile Center of Minnesota3 grants · $30,000
  • St Paul Conservatory of Music3 grants · $30,000
  • The Arts Partnership3 grants · $30,000

Giving over time

$424,000
2022
$441,000
2023
$509,000
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 189 grants.

  • $18,000

    Compas · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $18,000

    Minnesota Opera Company · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $18,000

    Compas · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $18,000

    Compas · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $15,000

    Neighborhood House · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $15,000

    Park Square Theatre Company · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $15,000

    Park Square Theatre Company · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $15,000

    Park Square Theatre Company · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $12,500

    Ordway Center for the Performing Arts · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $12,500

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $12,500

    Ordway Center for the Performing Arts · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $12,500

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $12,500

    Ordway Center for the Performing Arts · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $12,500

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $12,000

    Family Means · Stillwater, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $11,000

    Family Means · Stillwater, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Children'S Theatre Company · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Guthrie Theatre Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Keystone Community Services · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Lakeshore Players · White Bear Lake, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Macphail Center for Music · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    One Voice Mixed Chorus · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    People Incorporated · Eagan, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    St David'S Center for Child & Family Development · Minnetonka, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    St Paul Conservatory of Music · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Textile Center of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    The Arts Partnership · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    The History Theatre · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    The Loft Literary Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Children'S Theatre Company · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Keystone Community Services · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Lakeshore Players · White Bear Lake, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Neighborhood House · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    People Incorporated · Eagan, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    St David'S Center for Child & Family Development · Minnetonka, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    St Paul Conservatory of Music · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Textile Center of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    The Arts Partnership · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Children'S Theatre Company · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Family Means · Stillwater, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Keystone Community Services · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Macphail Center for Music · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Minnesota Museum of American Art · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Neighborhood House · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    St Paul Conservatory of Music · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    Textile Center of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    The Arts Partnership · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $10,000

    The Cowles Center for Dance · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $9,500

    Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $9,000

    The History Theatre · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $9,000

    The Loft Literary Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $8,500

    Cantus · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $8,500

    Friends of the St Paul Public Library · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $8,500

    Cantus · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $8,500

    Friends of the St Paul Public Library · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $8,500

    Cantus · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $8,500

    The Loft Literary Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Minnesota Children'S Museum · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Minnesota Orchestra · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Minnesota Public Radio · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Twin Cities Public Television · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Guthrie Theatre Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Minnesota Opera Company · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Twin Cities Public Television · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Guthrie Theatre Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Minnesota Opera Company · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    The History Theatre · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $8,000

    Twin Cities Public Television · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    Children'S Home Society of Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    Como Friends · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    Midwest Special Services Inc (Dba Mss) · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    The Schubert Club · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    Thomas Irvine Dodge Nature Center · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    Children'S Home Society of Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    Como Friends · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    Midwest Special Services Inc (Dba Mss) · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    One Voice Mixed Chorus · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    The Schubert Club · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    Children'S Home Society of Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    Dodge Nature Center · West St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    One Voice Mixed Chorus · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    St David'S Center for Child & Family Development · Minnetonka, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $7,500

    The Schubert Club · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $7,000

    Hot Summer Jazz Festival · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $7,000

    Hot Summer Jazz Festival · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $7,000

    Minnesota Children'S Museum · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $7,000

    Minnesota Public Radio · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $7,000

    Friends of the St Paul Public Library · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $7,000

    Minnesota Children'S Museum · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $7,000

    Minnesota Public Radio · St Paul, MN · 2022

    General operating fund

  • $6,000

    Bach Society of Minnesota · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $6,000

    Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Twin Cities · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $6,000

    Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation · Chaska, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $6,000

    Ramsey County Historical Society · St Paul, MN · 2024

    General operating fund

  • $6,000

    Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Twin Cities · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $6,000

    Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation · Chaska, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $6,000

    Minnesota Orchestra · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

  • $6,000

    Ramsey County Historical Society · St Paul, MN · 2023

    General operating fund

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.