· Private foundation
John and Kim Erickson Family Founda
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $68,294 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $84,394 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,100 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Federated Church | $26,450 |
| NDSU Foundation | $16,000 |
| Lake Region Healthcare Foundation | $10,500 |
| United Way of Otter Tail County | $3,000 |
| Fergus Area College Foundation | $2,500 |
| Jeremiah Program | $2,500 |
| Otter Tail County Humane Society | $2,000 |
| North Buffalo Cemetery Association | $1,000 |
| Brady Oberg Legacy Foundation | $1,000 |
| Lakes Area Vineyard Church | $1,000 |
| Fergus Falls ISD #544 Foundation | $594 |
| Down Home | $500 |
| Moorhead Home Run Club | $250 |
| Fergus Falls Area Dollars for Scholars | $200 |
| Sabin Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery | $200 |
7 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. 7 of the 23 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.
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 · The Lundeen Foundation · Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust · West Central Initiative · 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.
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