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Clara P Evenson Trust Estate

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$78kHousing & Shelter$39kHuman Services$39kReligion$39kMembership Benefit$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,463
Median grant
2
States reached
$452k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCHES UNITED FOR THE HOMELESS$4,463
FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION$4,463
CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$4,463
KRINGEN CLUB INC$4,463
CLAY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$4,463
RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$100
RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOC OF OSAGE$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOC OF OSAGE: $100 → 10%CHURCHES UNITED FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 11%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 12%RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOC OF OSAGE: $100 → 10%CHURCHES UNITED FOR THE HOMELESS: $4k → 11%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 12%RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOC OF OSAGE: $100 → 10%CHURCHES UNITED FOR THE HOMELESS: $4k → 11%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 12%RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOC OF OSAGE: $100 → 10%CHURCHES UNITED FOR THE HOMELESS: $4k → 11%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 12%RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOC OF OSAGE: $100 → 10%CHURCHES UNITED FOR THE HOMELESS: $4k → 11%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 12%RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOC OF OSAGE: $100 → 10%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 12%RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOC OF OSAGE: $100 → 10%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 12%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 12%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 12%FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%KRINGEN CLUB INC: $5k → 12%KRINGEN CLUB INC: $5k → 12%FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%KRINGEN CLUB INC: $4k → 12%FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%KRINGEN CLUB INC: $4k → 12%FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%KRINGEN CLUB INC: $4k → 12%FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%KRINGEN CLUB INC: $4k → 12%KRINGEN CLUB INC: $4k → 12%FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%KRINGEN CLUB INC: $4k → 12%FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%KRINGEN CLUB INC: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$197k · 7 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
0

Total granted

$197k
$0

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KC
    KRINGEN CLUB INC SONS OF NORWAY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +70%
  • FL
    FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +193%
  • CU
    CHURCHES UNITED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +95%

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its field
    04the grantee network

    5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 7 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    4
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    5/5
    Grantees still filing
    5/5
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    KRINGEN CLUB INC SONS OF NORWAY: $39,008 · OtherKRINGEN CLUB INC SONS OF NORWAYFIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $39,008 · OtherFIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATIONCLAY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $39,008 · OtherCLAY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY+2 more: $1,800 · OtherCHURCHES UNITED: $39,008 · ReligionCHURCHES UNITEDCass County North Dakota Historical Society: $39,008 · Arts & CultureCass County North Dako…
    Other$118,824Religion$39,008Arts & Culture$39,008

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKRINGEN CLUB INC SONS OF NORWAY: $39,008 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetFIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION: $39,008 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED: $39,008 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCass County North Dakota Historical Society: $39,008 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $1,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds KRINGEN CLUB INC SONS OF NORWAY ↗
    • Who funds FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds CHURCHES UNITED ↗
    • Who funds Cass County North Dakota Historical Society ↗
    • Who funds RIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗

    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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

    Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation CorporationND13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Clara P Evenson Trust Estate funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clara P Evenson Trust Estate. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      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 7 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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