North Dakota · Private foundation
Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $862k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 16
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $862k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $780k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $680k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Crisis Shelter Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Harmonic Creative World | $200,000 | 3 | 94% |
| Williston State College Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Williston Community Builders | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Dakota | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| First Lutheran Church | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Christmas for Kids Inc | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Western Star Literacy Center | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Fire and Iron | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Coyote Clay Target League Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Crisis Shelter Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Harmonic Creative World | $200,000 | 3 | 94% |
| Williston State College Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Williston Community Builders | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Dakota | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| First Lutheran Church | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Christmas for Kids Inc | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Western Star Literacy Center | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Fire and Iron | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Coyote Clay Target League Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Olive Motherhood Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Stone Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Williston Basin Skating Club Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Williston Band Boosters | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Freedom Church Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation
- How much does Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation give?
- Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $862,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Youth Development (16%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Family Crisis Shelter Inc ($250k), Harmonic Creative World ($200k), Williston State College Foundation ($200k).
- Does Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ardean & Colleen Aafedt Foundation, Williston Convention and Visitors Bureau, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation based?
- Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation is based in ND.
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