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Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$234k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $540k
$20,001
Median grant
11
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUGUSTANA COLLEGE$234,259
CAPITAL CARING$149,565
HOUSE OF RUTH$55,775
THE SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE$50,737
SCANDINAVIAN SEMINAR$50,000
VESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM$30,406
THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$25,369
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$24,581
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$20,294
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$20,001
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION$20,001
THE CIA OFFICES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$15,000
INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION$12,301
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$9,840
Individual grant recipient$9,735
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $602k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $24k → 6%CAMPAGNA CENTER: $375 → 9%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%CAPITAL CARING: $150k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $125k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $124k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $83k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $20k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
SD
IA
CT
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
GA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 21 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$3.2M
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
0%

Still filing today

62%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • AU
    AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +49%
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    4× · 2021–2024 · $398k · revenue +20%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF RUTH
    5× · 2020–2025 · $247k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • PL
    Project Liberty Ship Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +74%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR WESTERN STUDIES
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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

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.

1
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Scandinavian Seminar. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 32 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)
21/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $1,088,064 · EducationAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATIONRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $397,901 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteSEAMENS CHURCH INSTITUTE INC: $177,250 · OtherSEAMENS CHURCH INSTITU…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $110,680 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIET…ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $100,337 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIO…THE CIA OFFICES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $79,000 · OtherTHE CIA OFFICES MEMORI…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $78,130 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY I…COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $31,272 · Other+11 more: $86,407 · Other+11 moreCapital Hospice: $501,187 · Human ServicesCapital HospiceMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $54,844 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANC…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $46,088 · Human ServicesAmerican National Re…+2 more: $478 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF RUTH: $247,361 · Housing & ShelterVESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM: $111,143 · Arts & CultureProject Liberty Ship Inc: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSCANDINAVIAN SEMINAR: $90,000 · InternationalINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $45,969 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,334 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $9,840 · Health
Education$1,485,965Other$663,076Human Services$602,597Housing & Shelter$247,361Arts & Culture$127,143International$90,000Health$66,143

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

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,000 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
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.

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 Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delman Mortenson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Capital Hospice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home