· Private foundation
Clarence Talen Charitable Trust
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVIN COLLEGE & SEMINARY | $6,600 |
| ELIM CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $3,300 |
| DORDT UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED | $3,300 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $3,300 |
| REFRAME MINISTRIES | $3,300 |
| ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $3,106 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DUNN COUNTY | $2,510 |
| MABEL TAINTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| SUMMIT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $2,062 |
| MENOMONIE AREA FREE CLINIC | $2,000 |
| STEPPING STONES | $1,500 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,432 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,100 |
| CEDARBROOK CHURCH | $1,100 |
| PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,100 |
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
62 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +66%
- SSSTEPPING STONES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +114%
- TBTHE BRIDGE TO HOPE7× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SCSUMMIT CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2025 · $2k
- DCDUNN COUNTY 4-H LEADERS FEDERATIONone grant, 2025 · $1k
- BLBETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2025 · $510
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 provide electricity to its 9,012 members
The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.
People helping people strengthen the dunn county community by providing food, shelter, and support.
The mission of the dunn school community is to educate the whole student to their fullest potential in preparation for a life of learning and leadership in society. the school accomplishes this mission by operating a 6-12th grade boarding…
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
The door county historical society strives to collect, maintain and share the history and heritage of door county through preservation, education and programming.
The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
Our mission is to mobilize stakeholders to invest in greater dundalk's neighborhoods, economy, and quality of life.
Our mission is to foster compassionate human and animal connections; forge safe, healthy, and thriving communities for animals; provide care and transitional sheltering to animals; provide leadership and guidance to the animal sheltering…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Dunn County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Shriners' Hospital for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
11 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. 11 of the 67 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 DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DUNN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE TO HOPE ↗
- Who funds FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DUNN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DUNN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Dunn County Inc · The Covia Foundation · Westconsin Credit Union · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Clarence Talen Charitable Trust 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
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.