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The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
SHRINERS CHILDREN'S TWIN CITIES$10,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$9,000
MINNESOTAN'S MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND$5,000
HAWK CREEK ANIMAL SHELTER$5,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$5,000
GRANITE FALLS FIRE DEPARTMENT$2,500
YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY SHERIFF$2,500
AVERA FOUNDATION - GRANITE FALLS AMBULANCE$2,500
GRANITE FALLS POLICE DEPARTMENT$2,500
GRANITE FALLS LIVING AT HOMESBLOCK NURSES$2,000
NEIGHBORS UNITED RESOURCE CENTER$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $45k → 14%GRANITE FALLS LIVING AT HOMESBLOCK NURSES: $2k → 11%GRANITE FALLS LIVING AT HOMESBLOCK NURSES: $2k → 11%GRANITE FALLS LIVING AT HOMESBLOCK NURSES: $2k → 11%GRANITE FALLS LIVING AT HOMESBLOCK NURSES: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
SD
IA
CA
TN
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$659k · 17 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$659k
$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+53%

Still filing today

53%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +46%
  • NU
    NEIGHBORS UNITED RESOURCE CENTER
    6× · 2018–2024 · $74k · revenue +50%
  • MM
    MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND
    4× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • YS
    YME SCHOOL DISCTICT 2190
    one grant, 2017 · $48k
  • YM
    YELLOW MEDICINE EAST SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • GF
    GRANITE FALLS LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $32k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
2
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
3
George Hw Bush Foundation for Us-China Relations
International
4
Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans

To assist the state of kansas in helping to improve the health of all kansans, particularly those unserved or underserved.

Health
5
Sartori Health Care Foundation Inc

We, sartori health care foundation and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. sartori health care foundation is a member of trinity health.

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6
Sullivan Family Fund
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7
Massachusetts Fallen Heroes Inc

The massachusetts fallen heroes memorial fund was founded in 2010 by decorated combat veterans, gold star families and boston firefighters with the goal of erecting a permanent memorial honoring the men and women of massacusetts who gave…

Arts & Culture
8
American Legion Auxiliary Dept of Minnes

In the spirit of service, not self, the mission of the american legion auxiliary is to support the american legion and to honor the sacrifice of those who serve by enhancing the lives of our veterans, military, and their families, both at…

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9
Saint Mary's Foundation

We, saint mary's foundation and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.saint mary's foundation is a member of trinity health-michigan and…

Health
10
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
11
Captain Joseph House Foundation

The captain joseph house foundation provides a continuum of care for the families of the fallen (known as gold star families) in honor and memory of captain joseph william schultz, army special forces, who died in wardak province,…

Health
12
Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc

In partnership with donors, sioux falls area community foundation (sfacf) provides philanthropic leadership that assures the quality of life in our area, for good, for ever.the community foundation cultivates philanthropy by inspiring new…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gary Sinise Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Bush Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YME SCHOOL DISCTICT 2190: $48,000 · OtherYME SCHOOL DISCTICT 2190YELLOW MEDICINE EAST SCHOOLS: $40,000 · OtherYELLOW MEDICINE EAST SCHOOLSSHRINERS CHILDREN'S TWIN CITIES: $40,000 · OtherSHRINERS CHILDREN'S TWIN CITIESMINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND: $35,000 · OtherMINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUNDSALVATION ARMY: $33,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYGRANITE FALLS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $32,000 · OtherGRANITE FALLS LUTHERAN CHURCHWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $19,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECTHAWK CREEK ANIMAL SHELTER: $15,000 · OtherGRANITE FALLS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $12,000 · OtherGRANITE FALLS POLICE DEPARTMENT: $11,500 · Other+7 more: $45,500 · Other+7 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $295,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Consti…+1 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS UNITED RESOURCE CENTER: $74,000 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORS…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BUSH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 · HealthAvera Granite Falls: $5,000 · HealthHUMANE SOCIETY OF KANDIYOHI AND MEEKER COUNTIES: $10,000 · Animals
Other$331,000Human Services$303,000Food & Nutrition$74,000Philanthropy$50,000Education$45,000Health$40,000Animals$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORS UNITED RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF KANDIYOHI AND MEEKER COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRANITE FALLS LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Avera Granite Falls ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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