· Private foundation
The Frandsen Family Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $24k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,018,802 |
| ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF GANDY DANCER | $5,000 |
| ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| CHISAGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 32% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
25 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- IAICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +21%
- DCDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY2× · 2019–2020 · $28k · revenue +66%
- AFACRES FOR LIFE - THERAPY & WELLNESS CENTER2× · 2019–2020 · $600 · revenue +25%
Funded once
- EECUMENone grant, 2019 · $46k
- PTPINE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $45k
- FDFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $11k
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The american college of health care administrators (achca) is the catalyst for excellence in post-acute and aging services leadership.
To provide ambulance and medical services to the public.
The indiana state medical association exists to maximize the leadership and impact of physicians.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Iasp brings together scientists, clinicians, health-care providers, and policymakers to stimulate and support the study of pain and to translate that knowledge into improved pain relief worldwide.
We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…
Promote emergency medical industry by advancing the science and art of ambulance service, developing greater cooperation between professional ambulance services, developing educational programs, advancing the profession of emergency…
Fire protection
To provide programs, services, technology and leadership to enhance the genetics of the angus breed, broaden its influence within the beef industry and expand the market for superior tasting, high-quality angus beef worldwide.
Advancing the practice and securing the future of anesthesiology through medical education, creation and dissemination of new knowledge, improvement of patient care, and legislative and regulatory advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakes Region Ems Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 83 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 The Frandsen Family Foundation 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.