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John and Kim Erickson Family Founda

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$84k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Itemized grants FY2024
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Itemized, FY2024
$68k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$26,450
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
77% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$28kEducation$19kHealth$11kPhilanthropy$3kHuman Services$3kAnimals$2kArts & Culture$1kMembership Benefit$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Federated Church$26,4501n/a
North Dakota State University Foundation$16,00010%
Fergus Area College Foundation$2,50010%
Jeremiah Program$2,50010%
Humane Society of Otter Tail County$2,00010%
Lakes Area Vineyard Church$1,0001n/a
North Buffalo Cemetery Association$1,0001n/a
Down Home$50010%
Moorhead Home Run Club$2501n/a
Scholarship America Inc$2001n/a
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of John and Kim Erickson Family Founda by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Federated Church$26,4501n/a
North Dakota State University Foundation$16,00010%
Fergus Area College Foundation$2,50010%
Jeremiah Program$2,50010%
Humane Society of Otter Tail County$2,00010%
Lakes Area Vineyard Church$1,0001n/a
North Buffalo Cemetery Association$1,0001n/a
Down Home$50010%
Moorhead Home Run Club$2501n/a
Scholarship America Inc$2001n/a
Oak Mound Cemetery Association$1001n/a
Otter Tail County Historical Society$5010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

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.

Otter Tail Power Company FoundationMN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · The Lundeen Foundation · Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust · West Central Initiative · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to John and Kim Erickson Family Founda through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About John and Kim Erickson Family Founda

How much does John and Kim Erickson Family Founda give?
John and Kim Erickson Family Founda reported 23 itemized grants totaling $68,294, out of $84,394 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does John and Kim Erickson Family Founda fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (6%), Education (4%), Health (2%).
Who are John and Kim Erickson Family Founda's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Federated Church ($26k), North Dakota State University Foundation ($16k), Fergus Area College Foundation ($3k).
Does John and Kim Erickson Family Founda accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John and Kim Erickson Family Founda?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otter Tail Power Company Foundation, The Lundeen Foundation, Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust.
Where is John and Kim Erickson Family Founda based?
John and Kim Erickson Family Founda is based in ND.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $68k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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