· Private foundation
Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING | $35,000 |
| CONCORDIA COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| VILLAGE FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SHANLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NOKOMIS CHILD CARE CENTER | $9,500 |
| CHURCHES UNITED FOR THE HOMELESS | $8,000 |
| OAK GROVE LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| NEW LIFE CENTER | $7,500 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| SANFORD MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DETROIT LAKES | $5,000 |
| YWCA CASS & CLAY COUNTIES | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PERHAM | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 31% of Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in ND; by stated purpose, 86%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DETROIT LAKES5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +60%
- GPGreat Plains Food Bank6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +14%
- POPEACE OFFICER JAIL CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
- SHSMP HEALTH - ST CATHERINE NORTHone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Easter Seals Goodwill ND, Inc. is a leading organization in supporting children, adults, and families to have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
To promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income clients through quality legal assistance
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.
To provide a safe, family friendly environment that promotes hope, health, and healing to traumatized children and their families.
To promote, foster, operate and maintain a fair, agricultural and livestock exposition, annually, at the red river valley fairgrounds, west fargo, cass county, north dakota
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 65 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 FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DETROIT LAKES ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds PEACE OFFICER JAIL CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead ↗
- Who funds Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds DLCCC INC ↗
- Who funds SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Red River Childrens Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds PLAINS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRASER LTD ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER VALLEY VETERANS CONCERT BAND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elmer & Kaya Berg Foundation No 2. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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