· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES | $30,000 |
| SMP HEALTH | $20,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| KNIFE RIVER CARE CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TOWNER COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| MAPLE MANOR CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| RICHARDTON HEALTH CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY BISMARCK | $10,000 |
| BETHEL LUTHERAN NURSING & REHABILITATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LUTHER MEMORIAL HOME | $10,000 |
| MARIAN MANOR HEALTHCARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| ROLETTE COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTowner County Medical Center Inc3× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +42%
- RCRolette Community Care Center3× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +3%
- ANAneta Nursing Home Inc2× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SHSMP HEALTH - ST CATHERINE SOUTHone grant, 2023 · $30k
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY - MOHALLone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of Linton Hospital and Clinics is to enhance the health, well-being, and quality of life of the people we serve.
To advance the health of patients and communities we serve through a culture of leadership, continuous improvement and accountability. Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center (JMHCC) understands the relationship that exists between body,…
The mission of Hatton Prairie Village is to provide a welcoming, friendly and spirit-filled home to loved ones who need long term or short term care; excellent care and services by compassionate and highly-skilled employees who treat…
A community of services, grounded in faith, providing person centered care that encourages all people to reach their highest potential.
St. Anne's Guest Home, a Catholic Health Care Facility, embraces residents of all faiths, genders, and races in creating an environment of living the gospel message through providing services, regardless of financial status, to maintain…
At United Hospital District, we exist to provide and promote appropriate health care services to the communities we serve, doing so in a safe and healing environment which supports our patient-centered care philosophy.
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We are a professional association of long term care and community service providers who enhance the lives of people we serve through collaboration, education and advocacy.
At Mountrail County Health Center we strive to create an environment which encourages all individuals to attain their highest level of physical, emotional, and spiritual health.We will achieve this environment by adhering to the words of…
Valley Senior Living provides compassionate care and service from a Christian perspective to enhance the quality of life for those we serve.
To provide family-centered compassionate care in a therapeutic and safe environment, where the goal is quality of life. Knife River Care Center is dedicated to the preservation of dignity and respect to those we serve and employ. With…
Bethesda strives to promote a community like quality of life by providing a continuum of affordable health care services, housing alternatives, community services, and intergenerational opportunities in a Christ centered environment.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd Inc and the most unlike its peers is Knife River Care Center Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 98 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds Bethel Lutheran Nursing & Rehabilitation Center ↗
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- Who funds Souris Valley Care Center Inc ↗
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- Who funds Maple Manor Care Center ↗
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Frank L Wedge Memorial Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.