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Norling Brothers Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$321k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
34
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$246k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$48,400
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
76% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$73kEducation$29kPhilanthropy$26kHuman Services$14kHealth$13kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$11kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bethesda Foundation of Willmar$20,00015%
Tentmakers$16,0001n/a
Salvation Army$12,0001n/a
Hope Pregnancy Center$7,15511%
Phoenix Gospel Mission$5,00010%
Community Christian School of Willmar$4,20010%
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc$3,00010%
The Navigators$2,0001n/a
Minnesota Family Institute$1,60010%
Ridgewater College Foundation$1,00010%
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All grantees of Norling Brothers Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bethesda Foundation of Willmar$20,00015%
Tentmakers$16,0001n/a
Salvation Army$12,0001n/a
Hope Pregnancy Center$7,15511%
Phoenix Gospel Mission$5,00010%
Community Christian School of Willmar$4,20010%
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc$3,00010%
The Navigators$2,0001n/a
Minnesota Family Institute$1,60010%
Ridgewater College Foundation$1,00010%
MIO Frontiers$6001n/a
Girl Scouts of Mn and Wi River Valleys Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($498k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Norling Brothers Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBethesda Foundation of Willmar: $20,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHope Pregnancy Center: $7,155 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPhoenix Gospel Mission: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Christian School of Willmar: $4,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Family Institute: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRidgewater College Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Mn and Wi River Valleys Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 8.

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.

CommunitygivingMN15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Southwest Initiative Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Norling Brothers Foundation

How much does Norling Brothers Foundation give?
Norling Brothers Foundation reported 34 itemized grants totaling $246,120, out of $321,075 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Norling Brothers Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (4%), Education (2%), Philanthropy (1%).
Who are Norling Brothers Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Bethesda Foundation of Willmar ($20k), Tentmakers ($16k), Salvation Army ($12k).
Does Norling Brothers 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 Norling Brothers Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communitygiving, Southwest Initiative Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Norling Brothers Foundation based?
Norling Brothers 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 35 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $258k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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