Minnesota · Nonprofit
Ebenezer Society Foundation
Ebenezer Society Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,563 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($103,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $414k
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Ebenezer Society Foundation does
Mission
Ebenezer Society Foundation is part of Ebenezer Society. Ebenezer Society helps older adults and others make their lives more independent, healthful, meaningful and secure. Building on our Lutheran heritage, we respond to physical, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of the whole person. We welcome persons of diverse cultures and faith traditions. We practice responsible stewardship of humans, property, and financial resources and encourage continual learning and innovation to strive for excellence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Ebenezer Society Foundation program service accomplishments include providing health care services to older adults. Ebenezer has 846 beds/apartments that provide health care services in settings of skilled nursing, memory care, assisted living and independent living. Ebenezer Society Foundation supports and expands Ebenezer Senior Living programs and services to provide more than basic needs. As Minnesota's largest senior living operator, we enhance residents' quality of life by investing in cutting-edge innovation and state-of-the-art technology. Seniors at Ebenezer are engaged in mind, body, and spirit through our Lifelong Learning, Intergenerational Connections, and Spiritual Care programs. Grant activity included $400,000 in resident programming to create interactive and mindfulness programs to keep our senior residents active. These activities included $250,000 in 1700 music education sessions from the MacPhail School of Music, art activities from Northern Clay, Paint Paper Scissors, Art with Heart, and Time Slips programming for our Memory Care residents that helps to promote wellness, artistic, community, and self-expression.
$728,084 spentof which $728,084 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $728,084.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.3M to $8.1M (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
71% of Ebenezer Society Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Scott Wordelman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $55k → $145k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Ebenezer Society Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Ebenezer Society Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
38% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Ebenezer Society Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 53% · 2022 28% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of Ebenezer Society Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of Ebenezer Society Foundation's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Ebenezer Society Foundation has grown faster than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Ebenezer Society Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Fairview Health Services · exempt
- Ebenezer Society · exempt
- Ebenezer Ridges Assisted Living · exempt
- Ebenezer Ridges · exempt
- Ebenezer Ridge Point Apartments · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ebenezer Society Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ebenezer Society Foundation?
- Ebenezer Society Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,563 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($103,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ebenezer Society Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $413,563 in grants to Ebenezer Society Foundation, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ebenezer Society Foundation?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $103,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ebenezer Society Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing