· Private foundation
Severson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Augustana University | $100,000 |
| First Lutheran Church | $50,000 |
| Westwood Lutheran Church | $9,920 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $4,000 |
| The Banquet | $4,000 |
| Pickerel Lake Conservancy | $3,200 |
| Sioux Falls Area Humane Society | $2,000 |
| Rise Early Learning Center | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| First Tee South Dakota | $1,000 |
| The Furniture Mission | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +79%
- PLPICKEREL LAKE CONSERVANCY7× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +21% · 62% of their budget
- RERise Early Learning Center5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +583%
Funded once
- FNFLC Nokomis Child Care Centerone grant, 2021 · $100k
- FOFRIENDS OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -1%
- HCHope Community Development Assocone grant, 2024 · $15k · 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.
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.
Engaging the community to end hunger
Lss housing will support the continued vitality of north dakota communities by providing housing and housing-related services.
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.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
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…
End hunger together.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To partner with communities to develop places for people to call home so that people in southwest and south-central minnesota have access to dignified affordable housing, and thriving, inclusive and equitable communities.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PICKEREL LAKE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Rise Early Learning Center ↗
- Who funds THE BANQUET ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Hope Community Development Assoc ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNSEEN ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE MISSION OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Jerstad Family Foundation · First Lutheran Church Foundation · Tenfold Foundation Inc · The Robert and Rita Elmen Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Severson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Severson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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