· Private foundation
Frank W Veden Charitable Trust
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPLE TREE DENTAL | $105,000 |
| PIONEER HOME FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| A PLACE TO BELONG | $100,000 |
| ALEXANDRIA AREA YMCA | $75,000 |
| WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| FERGUS FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $30,000 |
| CITY OF FERGUS FALLS | $25,100 |
| MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY | $25,000 |
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, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +12% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- ATAPPLE TREE DENTAL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +88%
- FFFERGUS FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC6× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +57%
- MHMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- FFFERGUS FALLS LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $125k
- FFFERGUS FALLS AREA FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -2%
- LLLRHC LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +17%
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.
Our Mission is to promote quality of life in a Christ-like way for those we serve by providing diverse and holistic care, focusing always on individual dignity and worth.
The purpose of Cokato Charitable Trust division is to provide quality health and housing services that enhance the quality of life and maintain a maximum level of functioning for our residents.
Bear Creek Development Center was established by Bear Creek Christian Church to create innovative, holistic, and truly affordable housing solutions with families and individuals in the Rochester MN area.
Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
To create decent and affordable housing for those in need and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
Engaging the community in the preservation, education and celebration of our heritage.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
A faith based not-for-profit community serving seniors 62 years of age and older through a continuum of services enhancing an individuals quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fergus Falls Area Family Ymca and the most unlike its peers is Friends and Allies Project Corp. 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 39 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 8% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 37 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.
- Who funds APPLE TREE DENTAL ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FERGUS AREA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Home Foundation ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO BELONG ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREATER FERGUS FALLS CORP ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds LRHC LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KADDATZ GALLERIES LTD ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Area Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds SOUL PURPOSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS AND ALLIES PROJECT CORP ↗
- Who funds I-94 BMX INC ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds OTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT HOUSE AND CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
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: Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · West Central Initiative · Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust · The Lundeen Foundation · Otter Tail Corporation Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Lake Region Arts Council · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 W Veden Charitable Trust 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.
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