· Private foundation
Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Otter Tail County Humane Society | $50,000 |
| Pioneer Care Foundation | $50,000 |
| City of Fergus Falls | $50,000 |
| A Place to Belong | $25,000 |
| Otter Tail County Historical Society | $20,000 |
| A Center for The Arts | $20,000 |
| Kaddatz Galleries | $20,000 |
| Fergus Area College Fdn | $20,000 |
| Fergus Falls Youth Baseball Inc | $15,000 |
| YMCA of the Northern Sky | $10,000 |
| Otter Cove Childrens Museum | $10,000 |
| ISD 544 | $10,000 |
| Luther College Hefte Scholarship | $10,000 |
| Lake Region Healthcare Foundation | $10,000 |
| Fergus Falls Area Youth Activities | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- KGKADDATZ GALLERIES LTD6× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +44%
- OTOTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +160%
- FFFERGUS FALLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- PPioneerCareone grant, 2024 · $50k
- MSMinnesota State Community & Tech Collegeone grant, 2023 · $35k
- PHPioneer Home Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Children's corner is a full day child care center that gives each child a warm environment that encourages the development of socialization skills, independence, and a positive self-image.
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
We serve as the lead advocate and resource for our members and create partnerships that foster a healthy business climate int he fergus falls area. we market business, build business relationships, solve workforce issues and provide…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
North central university is a christian university with a commitment to academic excellence.
To provide financial support to improve the educational programs of independent school district 544, provide scholarships for alumni and students of isd 544, and provide support for enhancement of isd 544 facilities.
To be an active participant in the financial success of our members.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
The purpose of the fergus falls ymca foundation is to help provide a secure source of funding for the future development of the fergus falls area family ymca, as well as provide some operational funding.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Region Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KADDATZ GALLERIES LTD ↗
- Who funds OTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER FERGUS FALLS CORP ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE TREE DENTAL ↗
- Who funds OTTER COVE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO BELONG ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Home Inc ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS YOUTH BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds FERGUS AREA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BACKCOURT CLUB OF FERGUS FALLS INC ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LAKE REGION HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · West Central Initiative · Frank W Veden Charitable Trust · The Lundeen Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Otter Tail Corporation Foundation · Lake Region Arts Council · The Barry Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · John and Kim Erickson Family Founda · Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio · Offutt Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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