· Private foundation
The Mabel Ekman Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GETHSEMANE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $17,000 |
| LUTHERAN SUNSET MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | $5,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,200 |
| ABIDING GRACE LUTHERAN ENDOWMENT | $5,000 |
| HOLDEN VILLAGE LUTHERAN RET COMMUN | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MOLINE LUTHERAN CEMETARY | $5,000 |
| ELIM LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| PASTORAL BENEVOLANT FUND | $2,500 |
| LUTHERAN INDIAN MINISTRIES | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its 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
4 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. 4 of the 11 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mabel Ekman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mabel Ekman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
How this is measured
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