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Risdal Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,500
Organizations funded a year
8 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$94k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Risdal Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCivil RightsInternationalPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving10$56k10%
FY202410$26k10%
FY202312$45k33%
FY202211$66k18%
FY202110$23k20%
FY20208$20k25%
FY201910$19k50%
FY201810$15k20%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$118kEducation$63kHealth$63kYouth Development$15kCivil Rights$14kInternational$10kCrime & Legal$7kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
MA
SD
IA
OH
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Risdal Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Iowa State University Foundation$38,40070%
Gilbert Education Foundation$24,51565%
Obria Medical Clinics of Southern California Inc$16,50060%
Mary Greeley Medical Center Foundation$10,50030%
Bridges of Iowa$7,00030%
Mercy Ships International$5,00010%
Unbound$4,62860%
Food for the Poor Inc$3,60010%
American Cancer Society Inc$3,50020%
International Rett Syndrome Foundation$2,00030%
Marthas House of Hope Inc$1,50021%
St Marys Catholic Church$5001n/a
Hamo Foundation$4001n/a
Disabled Veterans National Foundation$25020%
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc$10010%
National Park Foundation$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($176k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Risdal Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIowa State University Foundation: $38,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGilbert Education Foundation: $24,515 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetObria Medical Clinics of Southern California Inc: $16,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMary Greeley Medical Center Foundation: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBridges of Iowa: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Ships International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound: $4,628 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarthas House of Hope Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDisabled Veterans National Foundation: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $100 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 14.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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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About Risdal Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Risdal Family Charitable Foundation give?
Risdal Family Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $57,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Risdal Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Education (21%), Health (21%).
Who are Risdal Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Iowa State University Foundation ($38k), Gilbert Education Foundation ($25k), Obria Medical Clinics of Southern California Inc ($17k).
Does Risdal Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Risdal Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Risdal Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Risdal Family Charitable Foundation based?
Risdal Family Charitable Foundation is based in IA.

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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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