Wisconsin · Private foundation
Clarence Talen Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 51
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Clarence Talen Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $64k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $62k | 2% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $60k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $72k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $67k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $62k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $62k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dordt University | $23,175 | 7 | 0% |
| St Pauls Lutheran Church | $16,297 | 7 | n/a |
| Reframe Ministries | $13,425 | 4 | n/a |
| Stepping Stones Inc | $11,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Bridge to Hope | $8,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Immanuel Baptist Church | $7,722 | 7 | n/a |
| Liberty Christian Center Inc | $7,722 | 7 | n/a |
| First Congregational Church Endowment Trust | $7,722 | 7 | 1% |
| New Life Lutheran Church | $7,722 | 7 | n/a |
| Christ Lutheran Church | $7,722 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dordt University | $23,175 | 7 | 0% |
| St Pauls Lutheran Church | $16,297 | 7 | n/a |
| Reframe Ministries | $13,425 | 4 | n/a |
| Stepping Stones Inc | $11,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Bridge to Hope | $8,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Immanuel Baptist Church | $7,722 | 7 | n/a |
| Liberty Christian Center Inc | $7,722 | 7 | n/a |
| First Congregational Church Endowment Trust | $7,722 | 7 | 1% |
| New Life Lutheran Church | $7,722 | 7 | n/a |
| Christ Lutheran Church | $7,722 | 7 | n/a |
| Faith Lutheran Church | $7,722 | 7 | n/a |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $6,550 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Dunn County Inc | $6,400 | 5 | 1% |
| Wisconsin Foster Closet Inc | $4,250 | 5 | n/a |
| Dunn County Historical Society | $3,900 | 7 | 1% |
| Uw-Stout Foundation and Alumni Association Inc | $3,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Hay River Lutheran Church | $3,395 | 7 | n/a |
| Colfax Lutheran Church | $3,395 | 7 | n/a |
| Dunn County Humane Society Inc | $2,900 | 7 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of the Northwestern Great Lakes Inc | $2,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Our Saviors Lutheran Church | $2,765 | 3 | n/a |
| Evergreen Cemetery Association | $2,500 | 5 | n/a |
| New Hope Lutheran Church | $2,370 | 5 | n/a |
| Barum Lutheran Church | $1,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Grace United Methodist Church | $1,200 | 3 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($284k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clarence Talen Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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.
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
How this is measured
About Clarence Talen Charitable Trust
- How much does Clarence Talen Charitable Trust give?
- Clarence Talen Charitable Trust reported 53 grants totaling $66,040 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 51 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Clarence Talen Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Education (30%), Health (9%).
- Who are Clarence Talen Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Dordt University ($23k), St Pauls Lutheran Church ($16k), Reframe Ministries ($13k).
- Does Clarence Talen Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clarence Talen Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Clarence Talen Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Community Foundation of Dunn County Inc, The Covia Foundation.
- Where is Clarence Talen Charitable Trust based?
- Clarence Talen Charitable Trust is based in WI.
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