· Private foundation
Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETHEL LUTHERAN HOME | $500,000 |
| FAMILY CRISIS SHELTER | $100,000 |
| ECKERT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HARMONIC CREATIVE WORLD | $50,000 |
| WPRD FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CHRISTMAS FOR KIDS | $20,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| NORTHERN PLAIN-YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $11,000 |
| FIRE & IRON | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| IMPACT FOUNDATION-TECH4KIDS | $10,000 |
| WPRD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UPPER MISSOURI MINISTRIES-SPRING BR | $10,000 |
| THE STONE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +162% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FCFAMILY CRISIS SHELTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +37%
- HCHARMONIC CREATIVE WORLD3× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +162% · 94% of their budget
- WSWILLISTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +433%
Funded once
- WCWILLISTON COMMUNITY BUILDERSone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -65%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTAone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +23%
- UMUPPER MISSOURI MINISTRIESone grant, 2023 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To advance, promote, and improve all aspects of the williston public school system, its students, former students, teachers, employees, and to provide for a forum for the reflection of the sentiments of the alumni and friends of the…
The williston area of commerce is dedicated to advancing the exceptional economic growth of the greater williston area, fostering a community where people want to live and thrive, not just work.our vision is to advance the economic,…
Helping equip students to embrace truth, strive for academic excellence and model Christian behavior in their home,community and culture for Christ. The ultimate goal is to guide students to embrace a Biblical world view,embracing…
Provide every memeber an opportunity to improve swimming skills and achieve success at his or her level of ability, from novice to international competitor.
None
To promote the Wahpeton Breckenridge area through the enhancement of community growth and business development.
Provide support for all athletic programs and for scholarships for the general student body at williston state college.
The theatre's mission is to provide affordable, quality performing arts to west central minnesota.
To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area
Support the chorus at washington high school
The willington public library mission statement: we welcome and support all people in their enjoyment of reading and lifelong learning. we are dedicated to enriching the community by providing access to a variety of resources, services,…
Wissahickon skating club, a nonprofit corporation that operates an ice skating rink in the chestnut hill section of philadelphia, pennsylvania, was formed for charitable and educational activities for its members and the surrounding…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Williston State College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Harmonic Creative World. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONIC CREATIVE WORLD ↗
- Who funds WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLISTON COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN STAR LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COYOTE CLAY TARGET LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Williston Basin Skating Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Williston Band Boosters ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ardean & Colleen Aafedt Foundation · Williston Convention and Visitors Bureau · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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