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Ordean Foundation at a glance

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Ordean Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $526k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $998k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAMIANO CENTER$145,000
LAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$125,000
YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$100,000
SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN$100,000
CHUM$97,000
MENTOR NORTH$90,000
LIFE HOUSE INC$75,000
VALLEY YOUTH CENTER$60,000
DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC$55,000
FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER$50,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHLAND$50,000
SALVATION ARMY$50,000
SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES FOOD BANK$45,000
SOAR CAREER SOLUTIONS$40,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION$40,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA FUND: $20k → 14%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $130k → 15%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $100k → 15%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $80k → 15%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $5k → 14%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $80k → 15%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $40k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 15%UNION GOSPEL MISSION TWIN CITIES: $20k → 14%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $35k → 14%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $25k → 14%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $55k → 15%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $36k → 15%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $20k → 15%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $100k → 15%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $70k → 15%FATHERS RISE TOGETHER: $21k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $21k → 15%FATHERS RISE TOGETHER: $20k → 15%FATHERS RISE TOGETHER: $20k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 15%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $20k → 15%FATHERS RISE TOGETHER: $12k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 15%FATHERS RISE TOGETHER: $1k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $150k → 15%DAMIANO CENTER: $145k → 15%DAMIANO CENTER: $135k → 15%DAMIANO CENTER: $125k → 15%DAMIANO CENTER: $125k → 15%DAMIANO CENTER: $125k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $51k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $50k → 15%KID'S CLOSET OF DULUTH: $25k → 15%KID'S CLOSET OF DULUTH: $25k → 15%KID'S CLOSET OF DULUTH: $25k → 15%KID'S CLOSET OF DULUTH: $20k → 15%LINCOLN PARK CHILDREN AND FAMILIES COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 15%KID'S CLOSET OF DULUTH: $20k → 15%NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 15%TRANS NORTHLAND: $500 → 15%TRANS NORTHLAND: $500 → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 46 repeat orgs$679k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
35

Total granted

$6.7M
$470k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

80%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • DO
    DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $655k · revenue +163%
  • LS
    LAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $625k · revenue +30%
  • MN
    MENTOR NORTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $511k · revenue +61% · 38% of their budget

Funded once

  • VC
    VANGUARD CHARITABLE DAF
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • LS
    LAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue +60%
  • FW
    FIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue 0%
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
Duluth Cross Country Ski Club

Promote health through skiing

Recreation & Sports
2
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
3
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
4
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
5
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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6
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
7
Phumulani

Preventing domestic violence and sexual abuse in communities of color throughout minnesota and the nation. by providing culturally-specific resources to women and girls of african descent, we hope to change the cycle of gender-based abuse…

Social Science
8
Residential Services of Northeastern Minnesota Inc

Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.

Human Services
9
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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10
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
11
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
12
Community Neighborhood Housing Services

Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Roof Community Housing; the most unlike its peers is Just Kids Dental Inc. 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

74 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. 74 of the 100 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/74
Grantees still filing
43/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: $443,250 · OtherCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRYSALVATION ARMY: $300,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYYWCA: $265,000 · OtherYWCAVALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $260,000 · OtherVALLEY YOUTH CENTERCOMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC: $189,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INCSOAR CAREER SOLUTIONS: $140,000 · OtherSecond Harvest Northland: $135,000 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE DAF: $100,000 · Other+53 more: $796,050 · Other+53 moreDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $655,000 · Human ServicesDAMIANO OF DULUTH INCSAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $430,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED…Family Freedom Center: $250,500 · Human ServicesFamily Freedom CenterYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH: $170,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA…KIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH: $115,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CLOSET OF DULUTHDIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $111,000 · Human ServicesDULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $111,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $80,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC: $74,000 · Human Services+7 more: $96,000 · Human ServicesMENTOR NORTH: $511,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENTOR NORTHLIFE HOUSE INC: $476,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE HOUSE INCBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS' CLUB OF DULU…+1 more: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $625,000 · HealthLAKE SUPERIOR…MINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: $100,000 · HealthMINNESOTA MAS…CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DE…+7 more: $96,000 · Health+7 moreAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $215,500 · Housing & ShelterBoreal Development: $22,000 · Housing & ShelterONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $117,000 · EducationDULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE: $102,000 · EducationDULUTH LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationDULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropyHEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY: $28,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,628,300Human Services$2,092,500Youth Development$1,245,000Health$871,000Housing & Shelter$257,500Education$255,000Philanthropy$83,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $655,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $625,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMENTOR NORTH: $511,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC: $476,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: $443,250 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetSAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $430,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetFamily Freedom Center: $250,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH: $250,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $215,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC: $189,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH: $170,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSOAR CAREER SOLUTIONS: $140,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetSecond Harvest Northland: $135,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $117,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS CLOSET OF DULUTH: $115,000 over 5y, 36% of budgetDIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $111,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetDULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $111,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE: $102,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetMINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: $100,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC: $74,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetTHE HILLS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $63,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetCHESTER BOWL IMPROVEMENT CLUB: $40,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetDULUTH LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetECOLIBRIUM3: $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPROGRAM FOR AID TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY: $28,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY: $24,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $23,500 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetBoreal Development: $22,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetVITA NOVA: $22,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMEN AS PEACEMAKERS: $21,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetANIMAL ALLIES HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $20,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE NORTH GOODWILL NORTHERN MINNESOTA AND NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK CHILDREN AND FAMILIES COLLABORATIVE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFTENRO SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGND DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: $12,000 over 1y, 5.2% 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.

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 Found…Duluth-Superior Area …Northland FoundationSmdc Medical CenterMinnesota Power Found…Head of the Lakes Uni…Otto Bremer TrustMardag FoundationPachel FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Medica FoundationMightycause Charitabl…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 100 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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