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Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation

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.

$755k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,001
Largest grant, FY2025
$234,259
Organizations funded a year
4 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$755k10%
FY202419$892k5%
FY202321$844k38%
FY202212$284k17%
FY20214$244k25%
FY202017$258kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.5MHealth$833kHuman Services$269kReligion$177kArts & Culture$153kInternational$90kPublic Benefit$79kHousing & Shelter$78kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
SD
IA
CT
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 22 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($337k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAugustana University Association: $1,088,064 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCapital Hospice: $501,187 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $397,901 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Ruth: $247,361 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVesterheim Norwegian-American Museum: $111,143 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetScandinavian Seminar: $90,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $54,844 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $46,088 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInova Health System Foundation: $45,969 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCoast Guard Foundation Inc: $31,272 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Maritime Historical Society: $21,014 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetProject Liberty Ship Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $10,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $9,840 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Horticultural Society: $7,191 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $5,084 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Campagna Center Inc: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Community Ministries Inc: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation

How much does Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation give?
Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $754,746 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Health (25%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Augustana University Association ($1.1M), Capital Hospice ($501k), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ($398k).
Does Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation based?
Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation is based in VA.

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 32 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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