· Private foundation
La Amundson Ohana 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $207k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANBY HIGH SCHOOL | $175,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $64,356 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIV | $61,500 |
| G&L BUILDERS INC | $42,241 |
| LATI | $27,500 |
| SLEEPY EYE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| NDSU | $24,500 |
| SMSU | $23,500 |
| MN STATE UNIVERSITY-MOORHEAD | $17,000 |
| SOUTHEAST TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $15,500 |
| UND | $13,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $13,000 |
| NORTHLAND COMM & TECH COLLEGE | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,072 |
| ALEXANDRIA TECH & COMM COLL | $10,500 |
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 (FY20–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +22% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
107 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 23 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2021 · $101k · revenue +28%
- AUAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $51k · revenue +42%
- BPBEULAH PARK DISTRICT2× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SVSTORDEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTone grant, 2020 · $102k
- SESLEEPY EYE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -31% · 45% of their budget
- RRRED ROCK CENTRALone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Briar cliff university is a community committed to higher education within a liberal arts and catholic perspective. in the franciscan tradition of service, caring and openness to all, briar cliff emphasizes quality education for its…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 230 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Folds of Honor Foundation · The Leonard Rydell Foundation · The Eagle Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Xcel Energy Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Paul & Mary Collins Trust · Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bank · Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr · Louis J Elbert Trust · Joseph J Sinek Scholarship Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization La Amundson Ohana Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from La Amundson Ohana Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
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