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Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$12,301
Largest grant, FY2024
$484,000
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$25M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Luther Classical College$484,000114%
Concordia Theological Seminary$400,0001n/a
Concordia University Chicago$125,00010%
Concordia University Inc$100,00010%
Lutheran Concerns Association$62,710182%
Concordia Historical Institute$31,2501n/a
Association of Confessing Evangelical Lutheran Congregations$31,2501n/a
Our Savior Lutheran Church$12,3011n/a
Trinity Lutheran Church$11,0001n/a
Immanuel Lutheran Church$8,9481n/a
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All grantees of Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Luther Classical College$484,000114%
Concordia Theological Seminary$400,0001n/a
Concordia University Chicago$125,00010%
Concordia University Inc$100,00010%
Lutheran Concerns Association$62,710182%
Concordia Historical Institute$31,2501n/a
Association of Confessing Evangelical Lutheran Congregations$31,2501n/a
Our Savior Lutheran Church$12,3011n/a
Trinity Lutheran Church$11,0001n/a
Immanuel Lutheran Church$8,9481n/a
Saint Andrews Lutheran Church and Campus Center$7,1981n/a
South Asia Lutheran Mission$7,00018%
Trinity Lutheran Church$5,5981n/a
University Lutheran Church$1,7501n/a
Concordia Seminary$501n/a

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.

Thrivent Financial for LutheransMN16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust

How much does Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust give?
Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $1,288,055 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), Religion (43%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Luther Classical College ($484k), Concordia Theological Seminary ($400k), Concordia University Chicago ($125k).
Does Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust 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 Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust based?
Walter C Dissen Charitable Trust is based in IL.

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 15 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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