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Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$144k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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97% of Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Communitygiving, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
1
’18
1
’19
1
’20
2
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$138,694
Largest grant, FY2022
$138,694
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationOther
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
FY20221$5k0%
FY20213$7k67%
FY20201$5k0%
FY20191$10k0%
FY20182$20k50%
FY20172$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$158kHealth$22kEducation$15kArts & Culture$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Carris Health Foundation$21,50040%
Ridgewater College Foundation$15,00011%
Kandiyohi County Historical Society$1,10011%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

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About Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr

How much does Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr give?
Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr reported 2 grants totaling $143,694 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (81%), Health (11%), Education (8%).
Who are Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Carris Health Foundation ($22k), Ridgewater College Foundation ($15k), Kandiyohi County Historical Society ($1k).
Does Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr 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.
Where is Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr based?
Thomas B Torgerson Sr Charitable Tr 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 6 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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