How much does Ordean Foundation give?

Ordean Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $1,547,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Ordean Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Youth Development (23%), Health (13%).

Who are Ordean Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Damiano of Duluth Inc ($655k), Lake Superior Community Health Center ($625k), Mentor North ($511k).

Does Ordean Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ordean Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ordean Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lloyd K Johnson Foundation, Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Northland Foundation.

Where is Ordean Foundation based?

Ordean Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Ordean Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 50
Grants FY2024: 49
Organizations funded FY2023: 33%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $145,000
Organizations funded a year: 33 to 49; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $43M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Ordean Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationCivil RightsEmploymentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	50	$1.5M	36%
FY2023	49	$1.5M	33%
FY2022	41	$1.4M	37%
FY2021	41	$1.4M	41%
FY2020	33	$1.6M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.6MYouth Development$1.7MHealth$932kReligion$458kEducation$370kHousing & Shelter$351kPhilanthropy$185kEmployment$166kOther$0

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
Damiano of Duluth Inc	$655,000	5	9%
Lake Superior Community Health Center	$625,000	5	1%
Mentor North	$511,000	5	38%
Life House Inc	$476,000	5	4%
Churches United in Ministry	$443,250	5	4%
Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women	$430,000	5	4%
Salvation Army	$300,000	5	n/a
Family Freedom Center	$250,500	3	19%
Boys' Club of Duluth	$250,000	5	3%
American Indian Community Housing Organization	$215,500	5	3%

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All grantees of Ordean Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Damiano of Duluth Inc	$655,000	5	9%
Lake Superior Community Health Center	$625,000	5	1%
Mentor North	$511,000	5	38%
Life House Inc	$476,000	5	4%
Churches United in Ministry	$443,250	5	4%
Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women	$430,000	5	4%
Salvation Army	$300,000	5	n/a
Family Freedom Center	$250,500	3	19%
Boys' Club of Duluth	$250,000	5	3%
American Indian Community Housing Organization	$215,500	5	3%
Community Action Duluth Inc	$189,000	5	2%
Young Women's Christian Association of Duluth	$170,000	2	6%
Soar Career Solutions	$140,000	5	4%
Second Harvest Northland	$135,000	5	0%
College of St Scholastica Inc	$117,000	4	0%
Kids Closet of Duluth	$115,000	5	36%
Divine Konnections Inc	$111,000	3	18%
Duluth Area Family YMCA	$111,000	5	0%
Duluth Community School Collaborative	$102,000	5	5%
Minnesota Masonic Children's Clinic for Communication Disorders	$100,000	5	7%
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota	$80,000	4	0%
Fathers Rise Together Inc Family Rise Together Inc	$74,000	5	7%
The Hills Youth and Family Services	$63,000	2	1%
Children's Dental Services Inc	$50,000	3	0%
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans	$50,000	3	0%
Lake Superior College Foundation Inc	$42,500	1	10%
Chester Bowl Improvement Club	$40,000	3	3%
MN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows	$37,500	3	n/a
Duluth Library Foundation	$35,000	2	4%
First Witness Child Advocacy Center	$30,000	1	2%
Ecolibrium3	$30,000	2	2%
Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault	$30,000	2	1%
Head of the Lakes United Way	$28,000	1	1%
Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community	$24,000	3	1%
Western Lake Superior Habitat for Humanity	$23,500	2	8%
Boreal Development	$22,000	2	27%
Vita Nova	$22,000	1	6%
Men as Peacemakers	$21,000	3	1%
Animal Allies Humane Society Inc	$20,500	2	1%
Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries	$20,000	1	1%
Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc	$20,000	1	0%
True North Goodwill Northern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin	$20,000	1	0%
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Lincoln Park Children and Families Collaborative	$20,000	1	3%
Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs	$20,000	1	2%
One Roof Community Housing	$20,000	1	0%
Aftenro Society	$20,000	1	0%
Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota	$20,000	1	0%
Just Kids Dental Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Gnd Development Alliance	$12,000	1	5%
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc	$11,000	2	0%
Northern Expressions Arts Collective	$11,000	2	12%
Conflict Resolution Center	$10,000	1	1%
Northwood Children's Home Society Inc	$10,000	1	0%
FamilyWise Services	$10,000	1	0%
Muslim American Society of Minnesota	$10,000	1	n/a
Wilderness Health Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Rainbow Health Minnesota	$10,000	1	0%
Girls on the Run Minnesota Inc	$8,000	1	1%
St Ann's Home	$7,000	1	0%
Lake Superior Youth Chorus Inc	$5,000	1	4%
Foster Advocates	$5,000	1	1%
Duluth Playhouse Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Duluth Aging Support	$5,000	1	2%
Duluth Art Institute Assoc	$5,000	1	1%
Minnesota Ballet Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Minnesota Humanities Center	$2,000	1	0%
Minnesota Land Trust	$2,000	1	0%
Duluth Bethel Society	$2,000	2	0%
Twin Ports Ministry to Seafarers Inc	$1,500	1	1%
Vaaj Xauvkaub Foundation Inc	$1,500	1	n/a
Hope Lutheran Church	$1,000	1	n/a
Best Christmas Ever Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Trans Northland	$1,000	2	n/a
The Privilege Institute Inc	$1,000	1	0%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Minnesota Council on Foundations	$550	1	0%
Minnesota Twins Community Fund	$500	1	0%
Northland Human Resource Assn	$500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($861k), not named here.

Ordean Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 71.

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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.

Lloyd K Johnson FoundationMN108.5× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Minnesota Power Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Mardag Foundation · Pachel Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Medica Foundation · 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 Ordean Foundation

How much does Ordean Foundation give?: Ordean Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $1,547,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Ordean Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Youth Development (23%), Health (13%).
Who are Ordean Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Damiano of Duluth Inc ($655k), Lake Superior Community Health Center ($625k), Mentor North ($511k).
Does Ordean Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ordean Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ordean Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lloyd K Johnson Foundation, Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Northland Foundation.
Where is Ordean Foundation based?: Ordean Foundation is based in MN.