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Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$67k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
61%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 23
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 61% of the organizations Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$67k38%
FY202323$101k61%
FY20229$45k78%
FY20215$17k40%
FY20208$82k75%
FY20194$3kn/a
81% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Youth Development$114kHuman Services$37kEducation$36kRecreation & Sports$35kHealth$31kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Benefit$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$700Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys' Club of Duluth$32,00051%
Northern Lights Foundation$15,00034%
Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries$11,00020%
Life House Inc$10,50040%
Duluth Archery Club$10,0002n/a
North Country R I D E$7,00016%
Kids Golf Legacy Fund$6,0002n/a
Eau Claire Archers Inc$5,5002n/a
Northland Foundation$5,00010%
Great Northern Classic Rodeo$5,00022%
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys' Club of Duluth$32,00051%
Northern Lights Foundation$15,00034%
Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries$11,00020%
Life House Inc$10,50040%
Duluth Archery Club$10,0002n/a
North Country R I D E$7,00016%
Kids Golf Legacy Fund$6,0002n/a
Eau Claire Archers Inc$5,5002n/a
Northland Foundation$5,00010%
Great Northern Classic Rodeo$5,00022%
Gnd Development Alliance$5,00012%
Northwood Children's Home Society Inc$3,00010%
Wishes & More$3,00010%
7 Stars Ranch Inc$2,50013%
Cloquet Nordic Ski Club$2,00024%
Our Heroes Tour$2,0001n/a
Best Christmas Ever Inc$1,50010%
Churchill Pie$1,0001n/a
Cloquet Amateur Hockey Association$1,0001n/a
Minnesota Warriors Ice Hockey$50010%
Superior Youth Organization Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($186k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys' Club of Duluth: $32,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNorthern Lights Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetMiller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLife House Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Country R I D E: $7,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetNorthland Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Northern Classic Rodeo: $5,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetGnd Development Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNorthwood Children's Home Society Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWishes & More: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget7 Stars Ranch Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCloquet Nordic Ski Club: $2,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBest Christmas Ever Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Warriors Ice Hockey: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSuperior Youth Organization Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Minnesota Power FoundationMN21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Minnesota Power Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Lahti Family Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Edina Realty Foundation · Northland Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Mightycause Charitable 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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About Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc

How much does Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc give?
Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc reported 24 grants totaling $67,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (36%), Human Services (12%), Education (11%).
Who are Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Boys' Club of Duluth ($32k), Northern Lights Foundation ($15k), Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries ($11k).
Does Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc 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 Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Minnesota Power Foundation, Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Ordean Foundation.
Where is Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc based?
Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 42 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.

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