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THE LUNDEEN FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$154k
Granted FY2025
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of THE LUNDEEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
fergus fallsprairiefoundendowmentpioneersoclutheran
2019
fergus fallsscoutslutheranprairiepioneerendowmentsoc
2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $153,500.
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Median grant
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States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$975k · 32 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
32
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Total granted
$975k
$11k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+21%
-24%
Still filing today
31%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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 ARTS2× · 2018–2019 · $24k · revenue +21%
- FFFERGUS FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +103%
- LRLAKE REGION HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +204%
Funded once
- FFFERGUS FALLS AREA YMCA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $6k
- OCOTTER COVE CHILDRENS MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -24%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Foundation for Fergus Falls
The purpose of a center for the arts foundation is to maintain an endowment and utilize income from the endowment to support the work and mision of fergus falls center for the arts.
Arts & Culture
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Cedar Falls Community Foundation
Support cultural, scholarly, recreational, literary, and artistic endeavors.
Philanthropy
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Finger Lakes Library System
To stimulate, coordinate and strengthen library and information services within cayuga, cortland, seneca, tioga, and tompkins counties.
Education
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Fergus County Disaster Relief Fund
Disaster relief
Public Safety & Disaster
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Fergus County Council On Aging
To provide a wide variety of programs and services to seniors 60 years of age and older so they may live happy and healthy lives with independence, dignity and respect.
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Cedar Falls Schools Foundation
Supporting, enhancing and expanding opporutnites throughout cedar falls community schools.
Education
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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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Cedar Falls Historical Society
Engaging the community in the preservation, education and celebration of our heritage.
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Prairie Pines Childcare Center
Provide quality childcare services at a central facility in the fosston, mn community. childcare is desperately needed in our area.
Human Services
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Itasca County Historical Society
To connect people to the history of Itasca County
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Big Lake Community Food Shelf Inc
Distribute food to those in need
Human Services
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Little Falls Public Library
To provide resources and services to fullfill individual informational needs for daily living and pleasure and for cultural educational and leisurely pursuits
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fergus Falls Center for the Arts Inc 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.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$934,200Arts & Culture$33,000Education$10,000Human Services$5,000Animals$4,000
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 ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS CONCERT ASSOC ↗
- Who funds FERGUS AREA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FERGUS FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds LAKE REGION HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds LB HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OTTER COVE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KADDATZ GALLERIES ↗
- Who funds CLAIRE ANN SHOVER NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOMEPLACE SAFE ↗
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.
West Central InitiativeMN28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: West Central Initiative · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · Frank W Veden Charitable Trust · Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust · Lake Region Arts Council · Otto Bremer Trust · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FERGUS FALLS CONCERT ASSOC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 416040833 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FERGUS FALLS CONCERT ASSOC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Lundeen Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Lundeen Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines