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Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust at a glance

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Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$348k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$440kEducation$228kHuman Services$223kHealth$183kCommunity Improvement$164kPublic Benefit$102kRecreation & Sports$98kHousing & Shelter$88kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pioneer Care Foundation$50,000
Otter Tail County Humane Society$50,000
City of Fergus Falls$50,000
A Place to Belong$25,000
Fergus Area College Fdn$20,000
Otter Tail County Historical Society$20,000
A Center for The Arts$20,000
Kaddatz Galleries$20,000
Fergus Falls Youth Baseball Inc$15,000
Lake Region Healthcare Foundation$10,000
YMCA of the Northern Sky$10,000
Luther College Hefte Scholarship$10,000
ISD 544$10,000
Otter Cove Childrens Museum$10,000
Fergus Falls Area Youth Activities$5,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Detroit Lakes Community & Cultural Center: $3k → 10%A Place to Belong: $25k → 9%A PLACE TO BELONG: $2k → 9%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 36 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
29

Total granted

$1.3M
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • KG
    KADDATZ GALLERIES LTD
    6× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +44%
  • OT
    OTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +160%
  • FF
    FERGUS FALLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • P
    PioneerCare
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • MS
    Minnesota State Community & Tech College
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • PH
    Pioneer Home Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · 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
Fergus Falls Community Child Care Center Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Fergus Falls Area Family Ymca

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

Human Services
3
Augsburg University

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…

Education
4
Chamber of Commerce of Fergus Falls Inc

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…

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5
Dordt University

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…

Education
6
North Central University

North central university is a christian university with a commitment to academic excellence.

Education
7
Fergus Falls 544 Education Foundati

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.

Education
8
Frontier Credit Union

To be an active participant in the financial success of our members.

Public Benefit
9
Augustana University Association

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.

Education
10
Fergus Falls Ymca Foundation

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.

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11
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
12
Northland Foundation

The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Region Healthcare Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 75 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $130,000 · OtherOTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYCITY OF FERGUS FALLS: $100,000 · OtherCITY OF FERGUS FALLSA Center for The Arts: $75,000 · OtherA Center for The ArtsFergus Falls Salvation Army: $63,000 · OtherFergus Falls Salvation ArmyFERGUS FALLS 544: $55,000 · OtherPioneerCare: $50,000 · OtherPioneer Care Foundation: $50,000 · OtherFERGUS FALLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $45,000 · OtherAPPLE TREE DENTAL: $40,900 · OtherAmerican Red Cross: $40,000 · Other+49 more: $481,512 · Other+49 moreKADDATZ GALLERIES LTD: $145,000 · Arts & CultureKADDATZ GALL…FERGUS FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $42,000 · Arts & CultureFERGUS FALLS…FOUNDATION FOR FERGUS FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER FERGUS FALLS CORP: $130,000 · Community ImprovementLUTHER COLLEGE: $56,000 · EducationCARDINAL ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationFERGUS AREA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationMACALESTER COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationFRIENDS SCHOOL OF MINNESOTA: $5,000 · EducationHUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY: $75,000 · AnimalsFERGUS FALLS YOUTH BASEBALL INC: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsBACKCOURT CLUB OF FERGUS FALLS INC: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsFERGUS FALLS AREA YOUTH ACTIVITIES: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsA PLACE TO BELONG: $27,100 · Human ServicesDLCCC INC: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$1,130,412Arts & Culture$194,500Community Improvement$130,000Education$121,000Animals$75,000Recreation & Sports$40,500Human Services$29,600

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 budgetKADDATZ GALLERIES LTD: $145,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetOTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $130,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetGREATER FERGUS FALLS CORP: $130,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY: $75,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE: $56,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFERGUS FALLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $45,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFERGUS FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $42,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL: $40,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOTTER COVE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $30,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPioneer Home Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARDINAL ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetFERGUS FALLS YOUTH BASEBALL INC: $22,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetFERGUS AREA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBACKCOURT CLUB OF FERGUS FALLS INC: $12,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE REGION HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $8,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FERGUS FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetNonviolent Peaceforce: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BOOTSTRAP-AFRICA: $5,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS SCHOOL OF MINNESOTA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLAIRE ANN SHOVER NURSERY SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDLCCC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF OTTER TAIL & WADENA COUNTIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WELCOME HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFERGUS FALLS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $1,642 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $720 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗

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.

Otter Tail Power Comp…West Central Initiati…Frank W Veden Charita…The Lundeen FoundationOtto Bremer TrustOtter Tail Corporatio…Lake Region Arts Coun…The Barry FoundationC K Blandin FoundationJohn and Kim Erickson…Communicating for Agr…Offutt Family Foundat…
Otter Tail Power Company FoundationMN45× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    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 75 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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