· Private foundation
Urdahl Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ACTION | $1,000 |
| ELCA WORLD HUNGERDISASTER APPEAL | $1,000 |
| CARTER CENTER | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY LUNCH CAPITAL HILL | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS MSF | $996 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK | $800 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSION AID | $800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| JAMESTOWN SALVATION ARMY | $700 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $656 |
| IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MN | $500 |
| JAMES RIVER SENIOR CENTER | $500 |
| DAILY BREAD | $500 |
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $500 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Urdahl Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in ND; by stated purpose, 27%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC6× · 2021–2026 · $4k · revenue +32%
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC5× · 2022–2026 · $4k · revenue +3%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2021–2026 · $4k · revenue +38%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +16%- EWECA WORLD HUNGER DISASTER APPEALone grant, 2022 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $627
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.
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.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…
The hunger project is working to create a world without hunger through women-centered, holistic development strategies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. in 2025, it reached nearly 12.7 million people in over 10,000…
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 60 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.
- Who funds Christian Mission Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN PARTNERS IN GLOBAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds S A F E SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN UNITED WAY ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Urdahl Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Urdahl Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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