North Dakota · Private foundation
Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $201k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $201k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 54
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $201k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $213k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $215k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $211k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $212k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concordia College Corporation | $221,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Nexus-Path Family Healing | $81,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Oak Grove Lutheran High School | $55,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Luther Seminary | $32,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Great Plains Food Bank | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Peace Officer Jail Chaplains Association | $16,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dlccc Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($556k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Barry Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Midcontinent Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Offutt Family Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Cass-Clay · First Lutheran Church Foundation · Dakota Medical Charities
How this is measured
About Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2
- How much does Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 give?
- Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 reported 31 grants totaling $200,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (70%), Education (8%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Concordia College Corporation ($222k), Nexus-Path Family Healing ($81k), Oak Grove Lutheran High School ($55k).
- Does Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Barry Foundation, Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation, Midcontinent Foundation.
- Where is Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 based?
- Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 is based in ND.
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