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Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
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98% of Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’23
9
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,915,394
States reached, FY2024
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Philanthropy$6.3MEducation$115kReligion$62kHuman Services$12kHousing & Shelter$11kHealth$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Liberty Common School$60,00020%
Wayzata Community Church$60,0002n/a
College of the Ozarks$55,00020%
Trinity Sober Homes$11,47021%
Bravo Zulu House$10,00021%
N C Little Memorial Hospice Inc$2,00020%
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners$2,00020%
Gilda's Club Twin Cities Inc$2,00020%
The Grief Club of Minnesota$1,00020%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLiberty Common School: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCollege of the Ozarks: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Sober Homes: $11,470 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBravo Zulu House: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetN C Little Memorial Hospice Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Outreach and Community Partners: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGilda's Club Twin Cities Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Grief Club of Minnesota: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation

How much does Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation give?
Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $6,032,364 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (97%), Education (2%), Religion (1%).
Who are Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Liberty Common School ($60k), Wayzata Community Church ($60k), College of the Ozarks ($55k).
Does Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation based?
Bill and Irma Dale Charitable Family Foundation is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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