· Private foundation
The Lundeen 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $102,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $113,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k28 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A Center for the Arts | $12,000 |
| Fergus Falls Public Library Foundation | $10,000 |
| Pioneer Care Foundation | $6,000 |
| Fergus Falls Area Family YMCA Foundation | $6,000 |
| Fergus Falls Area Family YMCA | $6,000 |
| Lake Region Healthcare Foundation | $5,000 |
| Fergus Falls Rotary Foundation | $5,000 |
| Fergus Falls Public Library | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| Fergus Falls Community Food Shelf | $5,000 |
| Fergus Area College Foundation | $5,000 |
| Fergus Falls Concert Association | $5,000 |
| Otter Tail County Historical Society | $5,000 |
| Fergus Falls 544 Education Foundation | $4,000 |
| LB Homes Foundation | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2021, 17 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- FFFERGUS FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC2× · 2018–2019 · $24k · revenue +42%
- OTOTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY3× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +143%
- FFFERGUS FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF3× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- FFFERGUS FALLS AREA YMCA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
Our Mission is to promote quality of life in a Christ-like way for those we serve by providing diverse and holistic care, focusing always on individual dignity and worth.
Engaging the community in the preservation, education and celebration of our heritage.
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.
Our mission is to support the works of Pioneer Home, Inc. whose mission is to promote quality of life in a Christ-like way for those we serve by providing diverse and holistic care, focusing always on individual dignity and worth.
To provide a facility which has a pleasant and home-like atmosphere and also provide and made available an enriching program of services that apply to the needs of the residents.
The purpose of Cokato Charitable Trust division is to provide quality health and housing services that enhance the quality of life and maintain a maximum level of functioning for our residents.
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…
To spread ministry through radio transmission of christian broadcasting.
To stimulate, coordinate and strengthen library and information services within cayuga, cortland, seneca, tioga, and tompkins counties.
Supporting, enhancing and expanding opporutnites throughout cedar falls community schools.
Lead toursim economic growth and development through exemplary promotion of the finger lakes region as a world class destination.
To preserve the early history of fall river county south dakota
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Region Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Claire Ann Shover Nursery School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 48 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 FERGUS FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds OTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LAKE REGION HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS CONCERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FERGUS AREA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS 544 EDUCATION FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds LB Homes Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL MN EDUC TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc ↗
- Who funds OTTER COVE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Brethren Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds SOMEPLACE SAFE ↗
- Who funds KADDATZ GALLERIES LTD ↗
- Who funds CLAIRE ANN SHOVER NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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 · Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust · Frank W Veden Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust · Otter Tail Corporation Foundation · John and Kim Erickson Family Founda · Lake Region Arts Council · The Barry Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Lundeen 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.
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