Minnesota · Private foundation
Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund
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.
- $190k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $190k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $210k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $200k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $200k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $240k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $185k | 94% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $140k | 93% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $210k | 91% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Towner County Medical Center Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bethany on 42nd | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Luther Memorial Home | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Souris Valley Care Center Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Strasburg Nursing Home | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tioga Medical Center | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rolette Community Care Center | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Aneta Nursing Home Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lutheran Sunset Home | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bethel Lutheran Nursing & Rehabilitation Center | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: North Dakota Hospital Foundation · The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust · American Heart Association Inc · North Dakota Community Foundation · Ichf Foundation · Inspiritus Community Health Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund
- How much does Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund give?
- Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund reported 16 grants totaling $190,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Human Services (18%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Towner County Medical Center Inc ($40k), Bethany on 42nd ($30k), Luther Memorial Home ($30k).
- Does Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund 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 Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Dakota Hospital Foundation, The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust, American Heart Association Inc.
- Where is Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund based?
- Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund is based in MN.
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