Minnesota · Private foundation
Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation
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.
- $152k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $152k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $140k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $115k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $101k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $91k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $99k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salvation Army | $133,000 | 4 | n/a |
| University of St Thomas | $101,403 | 8 | 0% |
| Minnesota State Fair Foundation | $95,504 | 8 | 1% |
| Museum of Flight Foundation | $74,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Courage Kenny Foundation | $31,504 | 3 | 2% |
| Wings of the North | $30,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meetinghouse Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Orchestral Association | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Desert Foothills Library Association | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($328k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation
- How much does Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation give?
- Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $151,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Education (22%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Salvation Army ($133k), University of St Thomas ($101k), Minnesota State Fair Foundation ($96k).
- Does Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation based?
- Ken and Betty Dahlberg Foundation is based in MN.
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