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The Ron and Diane Fagen Family 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.

$107k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$107k8%
FY202314$120k14%
FY202214$135k21%
FY202115$127k33%
FY202010$85k80%
FY20193$77k100%
FY20182$79k100%
FY20174$123kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$325kHuman Services$195kEducation$93kFood & Nutrition$74kRecreation & Sports$40kHealth$40kReligion$37kAnimals$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
SD
IA
CA
TN
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$295,00060%
Neighbors United Resource Center$74,00061%
Minnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund$35,00040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$35,00040%
Salvation Army$33,0004n/a
Granite Falls Lutheran Church$32,0001n/a
Gary Sinise Foundation$30,00040%
The Bush Foundation$25,00010%
Minnesota Military Family Foundation$20,00021%
Humane Society of Kandiyohi and Meeker Counties$10,00021%
State University of Iowa Foundation$10,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$10,00010%
Granite Falls Living at Home Block Nurse Program$8,00042%
Avera Granite Falls$5,00020%
Saron Lutheran Church$5,0001n/a

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($226k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $295,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNeighbors United Resource Center: $74,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMinnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bush Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Military Family Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHumane Society of Kandiyohi and Meeker Counties: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetState University of Iowa Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGranite Falls Living at Home Block Nurse Program: $8,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAvera Granite Falls: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation

How much does The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation give?
The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $107,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (38%), Human Services (23%), Education (11%).
Who are The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($295k), Neighbors United Resource Center ($74k), Minnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund ($35k).
Does The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation based?
The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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