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Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% 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
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$8,000
QUEEN OF PEACE$6,000
NORTHERN LIGHTS FOUNDATION$5,000
DULUTH ARCHERY CLUB$5,000
GIRL SCOUTS LAKES & PINES$5,000
GND DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE$5,000
VALLEY YOUTH CENTER$4,000
WISHES & MORE$3,000
KIDS GOLF LEGACY FUND$3,000
MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
GREAT NORTHERN CLASSIC RODEO$2,500
7 STARS RANCH INC$2,500
EAU CLAIRE ARCHERS INC$2,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHLAND$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WISHES & MORE: $3k → 7%GREAT NORTHERN CLASSIC RODEO: $3k → 11%GREAT NORTHERN CLASSIC RODEO: $3k → 11%NORTHERN LIGHTS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%NORTHERN LIGHTS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%NORTHERN LIGHTS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%NORTHWOOD CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY INC: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$240k · 18 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
15

Total granted

$240k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+9%

Still filing today

33%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH
    5× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +8%
  • NL
    Northern Lights Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +383%
  • MF
    MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • CK
    COURAGE KENNY REHABILITATION INSTITUTE - NORTHLAND
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • MA
    MINNESOTA ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE - NORTHLAND CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTRY R I D Egraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +38%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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2
Northeast Wisconsin Hockey Assn Inc

Develop hockey skills in youth hockey players and provide a competitive team to compete with other teams in the midwest.

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3
Tailwinds Bemidji
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4
City of Lakes Youth Hockey Association

City of lakes youth hockey association is a 501 (c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to provide affordable coed hockey in north and northeast minneapolis.

Recreation & Sports
5
Duluth Cross Country Ski Club

Promote health through skiing

Recreation & Sports
6
North Lake Wellness Center
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7
Nighthawks Youth Hockey Club

Youth hockey development

Recreation & Sports
8
North Dakota Community and Rec

North Dakota Community and Rec was formed in 2016 as a 501c3 nonprofit charity committed to providing a broad range of help in the communities we serve. Addressing the needs of the disadvantaged the elderly and disabled veterans patients…

Recreation & Sports
9
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League Inc
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10
Minnesota Quarter Midget Race Asso

To provide a platform for youth racing

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11
Nordic Spirit Soccer Club

Soccer instruction for youth

Recreation & Sports
12
Fargo Youth Hockey Association

The Corporation's mission is to promote, develop and administer a youth hockey program.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northland Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Minnesota Warriors Ice Hockey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $33,500 · OtherVALLEY YOUTH CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $30,498 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGIRL SCOUTS LAKES & PINES: $30,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS LAKES & PINESSTOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $24,215 · OtherSTOWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCOURAGE KENNY REHABILITATION INSTITUTE - NORTHLAND: $13,000 · OtherCOURAGE KENNY REHABILITATION INSTITUTE - NORTHLANDDULUTH ARCHERY CLUB: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,160 · OtherMINNESOTA ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE - NORTHLAND CENTER: $7,500 · Other+21 more: $62,260 · Other+21 moreBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH: $32,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS' CLUB OF D…LIFE HOUSE INC: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE HOUSE INCNorthern Lights Foundation: $15,000 · Human ServicesNorthern …GREAT NORTHERN CLASSIC RODEO: $5,000 · Human ServicesGREAT NOR…NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWOOD…WISHES & MORE: $3,000 · Human ServicesWISHES & …MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $11,000 · HealthGND DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports7 Stars Ranch Inc: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsCloquet Nordic Ski Club: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsCLOQUET AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsMINNESOTA WARRIORS ICE HOCKEY: $500 · Recreation & SportsNORTHLAND FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$219,133Youth Development$42,500Human Services$26,000Health$11,000Recreation & Sports$11,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

  • Who funds BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH ↗
  • Who funds Northern Lights Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY R I D E ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT NORTHERN CLASSIC RODEO ↗
  • Who funds GND DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WISHES & MORE ↗
  • Who funds 7 Stars Ranch Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cloquet Nordic Ski Club ↗
  • Who funds BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC ↗
  • Who funds CLOQUET AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA WARRIORS ICE HOCKEY ↗

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 Found…Duluth-Superior Area …Ordean FoundationLloyd K Johnson Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Lahti Family Foundati…Smdc Medical CenterEdina Realty Foundati…Northland FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Raymond James Charita…Mightycause Charitabl…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Larry and Donna Pulkrabek Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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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