Minnesota · Private foundation
Noel & Judith Fedje 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.
- $336k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Noel & Judith Fedje Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $306k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $255k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $263k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $264k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $290k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Cass-Clay | $225,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Lutheran World Relief Inc | $175,812 | 5 | 0% |
| Concordia College Corporation | $105,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Lutheran Church of the Foothills | $84,100 | 4 | n/a |
| Luther Seminary | $79,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Olaf College | $56,050 | 5 | 0% |
| Meetinghouse Church | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Valley Outreach | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Norway House | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($495k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Noel & Judith Fedje 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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · American Gift Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Otto Bremer Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Noel & Judith Fedje Foundation
- How much does Noel & Judith Fedje Foundation give?
- Noel & Judith Fedje Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $335,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Noel & Judith Fedje Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (20%), Philanthropy (18%), International (15%).
- Who are Noel & Judith Fedje Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: United Way of Cass-Clay ($225k), Lutheran World Relief Inc ($176k), Concordia College Corporation ($106k).
- Does Noel & Judith Fedje Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Noel & Judith Fedje 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 Noel & Judith Fedje Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, American Gift Fund.
- Where is Noel & Judith Fedje Foundation based?
- Noel & Judith Fedje Foundation is based in MN.
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