· Private foundation
Wild Rice Electric Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODS AND WHEELS ATV CLUB | $8,500 |
| VETERANS HONOR FLIGHT NDMN | $6,000 |
| CENTER OF HUMAN ENVIRONMENT | $4,610 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,750 |
| MINNESOTA STATE COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $3,750 |
| MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD | $3,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | $3,000 |
| MAHUBE-OTWA COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| MINNESOTA FLYERS GYMNASTICS & FITNESS | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DETROIT LAKES | $3,000 |
| UCB YOUTH WRESTLING | $2,500 |
| ELBOW-TULABY LAKES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $2,500 |
| LAKE PARK AUDUBON SCHOOL READINESS PRE-K | $2,500 |
| SMILEY'S RESCUES | $2,500 |
| BECKER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide emergency food relief for the families in the Lonsdale MN region .
A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.
Animal shelter/pet adoptions
Providing supplemental food assistance.
The council of aging provides aging adults and their support system with services and opportunities that enable them to achieve an optimal, self defined, quality of life. this is achieved through the provision of education, nutrition…
Provide food for needy local families
Established in 2005, La Crescent Animal Rescue (LAR) is an all-volunteer, non-profit 501(c) 3 organization dedicated to the protection and welfare of animals in La Crescent, Minnesota. Our rescue shelter depends solely on the support and…
To provide food assistance to those who are in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inter-County Community Council and the most unlike its peers is Loaves and Fishes Food Shelf. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTER OF HUMAN ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DETROIT LAKES ↗
- Who funds SMILEYS RESCUES ↗
- Who funds ELBOW-TULABY LAKES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAKES CRISIS AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds MAHNOMEN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTER-COUNTY COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TRI-VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Wild Rice Electric Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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