· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPLE TREE DENTAL | $105,000 |
| A PLACE TO BELONG | $100,000 |
| PIONEER HOME FOUNDATION | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +15%
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 37 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank W Veden Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank W Veden Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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