· Private foundation
Walter and Virginia Hager Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| MOBRIDGE REGION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MOBRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $15,000 |
| IMPERIAL METHODIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| MOBRIDGE RODEO FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| KLEIN MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| VICTORY CENTER BIBLE CONFERENCE | $10,000 |
| MOBRIDGE YOUTH ORGANIZATION | $9,000 |
| MOBRIDGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $9,000 |
| MOBRIDGE PINK LADIES | $9,000 |
| NEW HOPE FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| MOBRIDGE PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATIO | $6,000 |
| MOBRIDGE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 31%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH3× · 2023–2025 · $95k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $55k
- MRMOBRIDGE REGION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $55k
Funded once
- MRMOBRIDGE RODEO FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2025 · $12k · revenue 0%
- IMIMPERIAL METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2025 · $12k
- VCVICTORY CENTER BIBLE CONFERENCEgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue +28%
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.
5 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. 5 of the 17 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 Walter and Virginia Hager Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter and Virginia Hager Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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