· Private foundation
Clarence Talen Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVIN COLLEGE & SEMINARY | $6,600 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $3,300 |
| REFRAME MINISTRIES | $3,300 |
| DORDT UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED | $3,300 |
| ELIM CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $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 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,100 |
| LIBERTY CHRISTIAN CENTER | $1,100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clarence Talen Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clarence Talen Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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