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The American-Scandinavian Foundation

The American-Scandinavian Foundation is a publicly-supported not-for-profit organization committed to promoting educational, cultural and professional exchange between the united states and the nordic countries (denmark, finland, iceland, norway and sweden).

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$785kHealth$33kYouth Development$26k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $286,039, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,693,294 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,407,255 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $161k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$16,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Nations International School$100,289
Great River School Foundation$39,400
Gogebic Range Health Foundation$33,425
University of Wisconsin-Madison$20,000
Metropolitan Opera$20,000
Ironwood Theatre$17,925
Museum of Danish America$16,000
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts$14,000
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival$5,000
Vermont Folklife$5,000
American Literary Translators Association$5,000
Rhode Island Arts Foundation$5,000
Other Minds Music Festival$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL: $50k → 9%Dawson-Boyd Arts Association: $20k → 10%Finlandia Foundation Twin Cities Boys of America: $26k → 11%Arts Midwest: $15k → 11%Great River School Foundation: $39k → 14%Nordic Center of Duluth: $24k → 15%Finlandia Foundation National: $14k → 14%Metropolitan Opera: $20k → 17%Southern Methodist University: $20k → 14%Museum of Danish America: $29k → 9%VESTERHEIM Museum: $14k → 10%Finlandia University: $50k → 14%Gogebic Range Health Foundation: $33k → 17%Island Angels Ltd: $30k → 8%Folklore Village Farm Inc: $27k → 9%University of Wisconsin-Madison: $20k → 10%NORSKEDALE N NATURE & HERITAGE CENTER: $30k → 12%MILWAUKEE art MUSEUM: $14k → 17%Buxton in Bloom Grue Chruch Project: $45k → 9%Haystack Mountain School of Crafts: $14k → 11%FINNFEST 2023: $24k → 11%Nordic Center of Duluth: $12k → 15%United Nations International School: $275k → 17%Museum of Danish America: $16k → 9%Finlandia University: $35k → 14%Ironwood Theatre: $18k → 17%FOLKLORE VILLAGE FARM: $12k → 9%Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture: $14k → 10%HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS: $13k → 11%FinnFest USA Events: $14k → 11%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $20k → 17%IRONWOOD THEATRE INC: $18k → 17%HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS: $13k → 11%ASI LILLA spelmanslag: $34k → 11%United Nations International School: $100k → 17%HAYSTACK mountain school of crafts: $12k → 11%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $15k → 17%Cedar Cultural Center: $27k → 11%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $15k → 17%cedar cultural center: $21k → 11%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $15k → 17%Metropolitan Opera: $15k → 17%UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $179k → 17%UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $93k → 17%UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $76k → 17%UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $75k → 17%UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $75k → 17%UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $75k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CT
RI
CA
AZ
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 11 repeat orgs$532k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
22

Total granted

$1.5M
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

82%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • UN
    UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $947k · revenue +16%
  • FU
    FINLANDIA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2022 · $85k · revenue +18%
  • HM
    Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
    5× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • NH
    NORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -17%
  • BI
    BUXTON IN BLOOM
    one grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -28% · 55% of their budget
  • SO
    SONS OF NORWAY
    one grant, 2024 · $39k
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
Scandinavian Seminar
International
2
Swedish American Museum Association of Chicago

Through its arts and educational programs and its permanent collection, the swedish american museum interprets the immigrant experience for children and adults and promotes an appreciation of contemporary swedish-american culture.

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture
4
American Swedish Historical Foundation

The american swedish historical museum welcomes all people to explore cultural identity through the story of scandinavians.the museum offers a vibrant community dedicated to preserving and interpreting culture through celebrations and…

Arts & Culture
5
The American Friends of Statens Museum for Kunst Ltd

American friends of statens museum for kunst raises awareness and appreciation of the collection and the special expertise that charcterize statens museum for kunst (the national gallery of denmark), encourages exchange of art, skills, and…

Education
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
Bowdoin International Music Festival

The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…

Arts & Culture
8
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art C/O Denver Art Museu
Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Northwest Art

The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…

Arts & Culture
10
Gammelgarden Museum of Scandia

The mission of Gammelgarden Museum of Scandia is to preserve, present, and promote Swedish immigrant heritage and history. Through engaging exhibitions, educational programs, and community events, the museum aims to celebrate and share the…

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
12
Mingei International Inc

Mingei International Museum connects audiences with the creativity and cultural traditions of makers across time and the globe, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of our shared humanity through handmade objects, and the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Great River School Foundation. 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

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
18/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $947,390 · EducationUNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLHaystack Mountain School of Crafts: $59,000 · EducationNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationGreat River School Foundation: $39,400 · Education+4 more: $63,910 · Education+4 moreMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Associatio…The Cedar Cultural Center Inc: $55,210 · Arts & CultureThe Cedar Cultural Center IncTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM: $52,860 · Arts & CultureTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUMBUXTON IN BLOOM: $44,900 · Arts & CultureBUXTON IN BLOOMFOLKLORE VILLAGE FARM INC: $38,595 · Arts & CultureFOLKLORE VILLAGE FARM INCFinnFest USA: $38,000 · Arts & CultureFinnFest USAIRONWOOD THEATRE INC: $35,850 · Arts & CultureIRONWOOD THEATRE INCIsland Angels Ltd: $30,000 · Arts & CultureIsland Angels LtdVESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM: $23,435 · Arts & CultureDAWSON-BOYD ARTS ASSOCIATION: $19,680 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $89,965 · Arts & Culture+12 moreFINLANDIA UNIVERSITY: $84,675 · OtherFINLANDIA UNIVE…SONS OF NORWAY: $39,225 · OtherSONS OF NORWAYNORDIC CENTER: $36,050 · OtherNORDIC CENTERAMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE SPELMANSLAG: $34,200 · OtherAMERICAN SWEDIS…FINLANDIA FOUNDATION-TWIN CITIES CHAPTER INC: $25,500 · OtherFINLANDIA FOUND…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF W…FINLANDIA FOUNDATION NATIONAL INC: $14,000 · OtherMIDWEST INSTITUTE OF SCANDINAVIAN CULTURE INC: $11,690 · Other+2 more: $11,500 · OtherGOGEBIC RANGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $33,425 · HealthNORSKEDALEN NATURE & HERITAGE CENTER INC: $30,000 · Environment
Education$1,159,700Arts & Culture$528,495Other$276,840Health$33,425Environment$30,000

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 budgetUNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $947,390 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFINLANDIA UNIVERSITY: $84,675 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHaystack Mountain School of Crafts: $59,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Cedar Cultural Center Inc: $55,210 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM: $52,860 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBUXTON IN BLOOM: $44,900 over 1y, 55% of budgetGreat River School Foundation: $39,400 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOLKLORE VILLAGE FARM INC: $38,595 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetFinnFest USA: $38,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetIRONWOOD THEATRE INC: $35,850 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetGOGEBIC RANGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $33,425 over 1y, 11% of budgetIsland Angels Ltd: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNORSKEDALEN NATURE & HERITAGE CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetYale University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM: $23,435 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts Midwest Incorporated: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFINLANDIA FOUNDATION NATIONAL INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $13,910 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $13,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWEDISH HERITAGE SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $10,700 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Nordic Museum: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK MILLS ARTS RETREAT: $6,115 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOther Minds: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR DANISH AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetAmerican Literary Translators Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Margaret a Cargill Fo…The Barbro Osher Pro …Arts Midwest Incorpor…Ibm International Fou…The Minneapolis Found…Thrivent Charitable I…Aetna Foundation IncMightycause Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…
Margaret a Cargill FoundationMN17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation · Arts Midwest Incorporated · Ibm International Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Aetna Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust

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 The American-Scandinavian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Vermont Folklife Center: 90% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 42 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 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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