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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
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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

24
’20
24
’21
23
’22
21
’23
15
’24
5
’25

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.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureOther
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
FY2024still arriving30$201k7%
FY202346$213k4%
FY202254$215k6%
FY202152$211k4%
FY202054$212kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.8MEducation$320kHuman Services$253kHealth$141kHousing & Shelter$123kReligion$122kYouth Development$61kArts & Culture$55kOther$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Concordia College Corporation$221,50060%
Nexus-Path Family Healing$81,30050%
Oak Grove Lutheran High School$55,0006n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes$50,00051%
Luther Seminary$32,0005n/a
Great Plains Food Bank$23,00060%
Peace Officer Jail Chaplains Association$16,50051%
Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead$15,00050%
Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity$15,00050%
Dlccc Inc$15,00050%
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All grantees of Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Concordia College Corporation$221,50060%
Nexus-Path Family Healing$81,30050%
Oak Grove Lutheran High School$55,0006n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes$50,00051%
Luther Seminary$32,0005n/a
Great Plains Food Bank$23,00060%
Peace Officer Jail Chaplains Association$16,50051%
Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead$15,00050%
Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity$15,00050%
Dlccc Inc$15,00050%
Smith-Lemli-Opitz Foundation$14,70045%
First Lutheran Church$14,0004n/a
Red River Childrens Advocacy Center$12,00040%
Plains Art Museum$10,00050%
Fraser Ltd$10,00050%
Pathways Inc$8,0004n/a
Red River Valley Veterans Concert Band Inc$8,00053%
North Country Food Bank Inc$8,00040%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Red River Valley$8,00040%
Special Olympics North Dakota Inc$7,50030%
Becker County Food Pantry Inc$7,50051%
Park Christian School Inc$7,5001n/a
Unseen$7,50030%
Beggining Child Care Center$4,00020%
Hero Healthcare Equipment Recycling Organization$4,00040%
Patriot Assistance Dogs$2,00011%
4 Luv of Dog Rescue$1,00010%

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.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConcordia College Corporation: $221,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNexus-Path Family Healing: $81,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Officer Jail Chaplains Association: $16,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetRape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity: $15,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDlccc Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSmith-Lemli-Opitz Foundation: $14,700 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetRed River Childrens Advocacy Center: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPlains Art Museum: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFraser Ltd: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRed River Valley Veterans Concert Band Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetNorth Country Food Bank Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Red River Valley: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics North Dakota Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBecker County Food Pantry Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUnseen: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBeggining Child Care Center: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHero Healthcare Equipment Recycling Organization: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPatriot Assistance Dogs: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget4 Luv of Dog Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 22.

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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.

The Barry FoundationND45× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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