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Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation

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.

$586k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$358,300
Organizations funded a year
13 to 15
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$5.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesReligionHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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 arriving20$510k40%
FY202313$436k8%
FY202213$293k54%
FY202114$202k14%
FY202015$177kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$806kPhilanthropy$501kEducation$371kHuman Services$148kRecreation & Sports$93kPublic Benefit$75kArts & Culture$50kHealth$43kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project 412$745,800350%
Dlccc Inc$139,50042%
Detroit Mountain Recreation Area Inc$86,20751%
City of Detroit Lakes$74,9835n/a
Becker County Historical Society$45,00034%
Hospice of the Red River Valley$40,00020%
Emerging Prairie$30,00031%
Cooperative Development Fund of Cds$25,000133%
Lakes Crisis and Resource Center$8,11630%
Cues Fund$7,50030%
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All grantees of Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project 412$745,800350%
Dlccc Inc$139,50042%
Detroit Mountain Recreation Area Inc$86,20751%
City of Detroit Lakes$74,9835n/a
Becker County Historical Society$45,00034%
Hospice of the Red River Valley$40,00020%
Emerging Prairie$30,00031%
Cooperative Development Fund of Cds$25,000133%
Lakes Crisis and Resource Center$8,11630%
Cues Fund$7,50030%
Lakes Area Imagination Library$3,0003n/a
Essentia Health$3,00010%
Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes$2,50010%
Detroit Lakes Youth Hockey Association Incorporated$2,50030%
Arts Council of Big Sky$2,50010%
Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation Inc$2,50020%
Lakes Area Chorale$2,5001n/a
Friends of Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge Inc$1,02911%
Impact Foundation$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($396k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProject 412: $745,800 over 3y, 50% of budgetDlccc Inc: $139,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetDetroit Mountain Recreation Area Inc: $86,207 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBecker County Historical Society: $45,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHospice of the Red River Valley: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmerging Prairie: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCooperative Development Fund of Cds: $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetLakes Crisis and Resource Center: $8,116 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCues Fund: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEssentia Health: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDetroit Lakes Youth Hockey Association Incorporated: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetArts Council of Big Sky: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIdaho Wild Sheep Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge Inc: $1,029 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetImpact Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 16.

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.

Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation CorporationND28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · West Central Initiative · St Mary's Regional Health Center · The Barry Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · Sje Rhombus Foundation · Carl and Aune Lind Family Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation

How much does Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation give?
Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $585,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (38%), Philanthropy (23%), Education (17%).
Who are Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Project 412 ($746k), Dlccc Inc ($140k), Detroit Mountain Recreation Area Inc ($86k).
Does Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mark and Cindy Fritz Family 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 Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation, West Central Initiative, St Mary's Regional Health Center.
Where is Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation based?
Mark and Cindy Fritz Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 36 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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