· Private foundation
Jerstad Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Augustana University | $54,000 |
| College Possible | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Opportunity Neighborhood | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Volunteers of America Dakotas | $7,000 |
| Prop Shop | $7,000 |
| Open Arms of Minnesota | $7,000 |
| Mission Animal Hospital | $7,000 |
| Lincoln High School | $6,500 |
| South Dakota Symphony Orchestra | $6,500 |
| Helping Kids Round First | $5,500 |
| St Olaf College | $5,000 |
| Luthern Theological Seminary | $5,000 |
| Washington High School | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +45% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +62%
- CPCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +79%
- ONOPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +17%
- SASuicide Awareness Voices of Educationone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +9%
- SDSouth Dakota Symphony Youthone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
End hunger together.
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…
Engaging the community to end hunger
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
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…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 67 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 AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
- Who funds MISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Helping Kids Round First ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROP SHOP OF EDEN PRAIRIE ↗
- Who funds WALK-IN COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PAVILION MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Suicide Awareness Voices of Education ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BANQUET ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds BREAD BREAK ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
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: Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · South Dakota Community Foundation · The Mike Cindy and Kylie Huether Family Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Xcel Energy Foundation · Sheldon F Reese Foundation · Larson Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation · Tenfold Foundation Inc · Levo Cares Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jerstad Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerstad Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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