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William O Lund Jr and Natalie C Lund Charitable Foundation at a glance

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William O Lund Jr and Natalie C Lund Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$170k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.4MAnimals$720kHuman Services$310kEducation$205kFood & Nutrition$160kYouth Development$125kCivil Rights$75kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION$170,000
MAYO CLINIC$80,000
MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$15,000
MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS$15,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$10,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $25k → 11%RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%MAYO CLINIC: $300k → 9%GUSTAVUS ALDOLPHUS COLLEGE: $100k → 9%NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $25k → 11%MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $15k → 14%SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $50k → 11%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%DUCKS UNLIMITED INC: $10k → 17%TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $15k → 7%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $20k → 11%RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%MAYO CLINIC: $300k → 9%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $50k → 9%NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $20k → 11%SALVATION ARMY OF TWIN CITIES: $50k → 14%SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10k → 11%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $10k → 11%RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $10k → 9%NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10k → 11%SALVATION ARMY NORTHERN DIVISION: $50k → 14%SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10k → 11%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $10k → 11%RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $10k → 9%MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $20k → 11%SALVATION ARMY NORTHERN DIVISION: $50k → 14%ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $10k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $10k → 9%MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $20k → 11%SALVATION ARMY NORTHERN DIVISION: $50k → 14%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $15k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $15k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $10k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $80k → 9%NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $25k → 11%NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $20k → 11%NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15k → 11%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $100k → 11%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $25k → 11%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+83%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DW
    Delta Waterfowl Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $720k · revenue +161%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    4× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +17%
  • MT
    Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY OF TWIN CITIES
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +47%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +83%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Inc

To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents, and survivors.

Human Services
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Inc

To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents and survivors.

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6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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8
American Legion Auxiliary Dept of Minnes

In the spirit of service, not self, the mission of the american legion auxiliary is to support the american legion and to honor the sacrifice of those who serve by enhancing the lives of our veterans, military, and their families, both at…

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9
Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return

Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.

Environment
10
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
11
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
12
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans; the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $1,280,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $80,000 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge IncSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $70,000 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $720,000 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl FoundationSALVATION ARMY: $150,000 · OtherSALVATION ARM…NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $125,000 · OtherNORTHERN STAR…SALVATION ARMY OF TWIN CITIES: $50,000 · OtherSALVATION ARM…MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $15,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $180,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $160,000 · Food & NutritionALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $75,000 · Civil RightsRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Health$1,445,000Animals$720,000Other$350,000Education$205,000Food & Nutrition$160,000Civil Rights$75,000Philanthropy$65,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,280,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $720,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $125,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 William O Lund Jr and Natalie C Lund Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William O Lund Jr and Natalie C Lund Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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