Funding search · EIN 824618033 · North Branch, MN

The Frandsen Family Foundation

Name: The Frandsen Family Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

50
grants reported: $2.7M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

expenses income life health financial issues community elderly

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Individual Student Scholarship Reci4 grants · $2.5M
Zion Lutheran Church4 grants · $21,721
Mary Jo Vaughn4 grants · $20,000
Friends of Gandy Dancer4 grants · $20,000
Ice Age Trail Alliance4 grants · $20,000
Yvonne Gonzalez2 grants · $10,000
Mike Fisk2 grants · $5,500
Kay Schoberl1 grant · $5,000
Karen Pufpoff1 grant · $5,000
Rush City Firemans Relief Assn1 grant · $5,000

Giving over time

$330,147

2022

$507,907

2023

$781,478

2024

$1.0M

2025

Grant history

All 50 reported grants, largest first.

$1.0M
Individual Student Scholarship Reci · North Branch, MN · 2025
College tuition, books for students
$751,363
Individual Student Scholarship Reci · North Branch, MN · 2024
College tuition, books for students
$473,407
Individual Student Scholarship Reci · North Branch, MN · 2023
College tuition, books for students
$289,187
Individual Student Scholarship Reci · North Branch, MN · 2022
College tuition, books for students
$6,661
Zion Lutheran Church · Frederic, WI · 2024
Food shelf and church community
$5,060
Zion Lutheran Church · Frederic, WI · 2022
Food shelf and church community
$5,000
Friends of Gandy Dancer · Frederic, WI · 2025
Operations
$5,000
Ice Age Trail Alliance · Cross Plains, WI · 2025
Operations
$5,000
Mary Jo Vaughn · North Branch, MN · 2025
Help with life expenses, low income and elderly, health issues
$5,000
Zion Lutheran Church · Frederic, WI · 2025
Food shelf and church community
$5,000
Friends of Gandy Dancer · Frederic, WI · 2024
Operations
$5,000
Ice Age Trail Alliance · Cross Plains, WI · 2024
Operations
$5,000
Mary Jo Vaughn · North Branch, MN · 2024
Help with life expenses, low income and elderly, health issues
$5,000
Mike Fisk · Osceola, WI · 2024
Financial need
$5,000
Friends of Gandy Dancer · Frederic, WI · 2023
Operations
$5,000
Ice Age Trail Alliance · Cross Plains, WI · 2023
Operations
$5,000
Mary Jo Vaughn · North Branch, MN · 2023
Help with life expenses, low income and elderly, health issues
$5,000
Rush City Firemans Relief Assn · Rush City, MN · 2023
Firemens relief association
$5,000
Yvonne Gonzalez · Tustin, CA · 2023
Help with life expenses, low income
$5,000
Zion Lutheran Church · Frederic, WI · 2023
Food shelf and church community
$5,000
Friends of Gandy Dancer · Frederic, WI · 2022
Operations
$5,000
Ice Age Trail Alliance · Cross Plains, WI · 2022
Operations
$5,000
Karen Pufpoff · Tuscon, AZ · 2022
Health issues
$5,000
Kay Schoberl · Center City, MN · 2022
Help with life expenses, low income and elderly
$5,000
Mary Jo Vaughn · North Branch, MN · 2022
Help with life expenses, low income and elderly, health issues
$5,000
Yvonne Gonzalez · Tustin, CA · 2022
Help with life expenses, low income
$2,000
Dennis Krenke · Harris, MN · 2023
Help with life expenses due to finanical hardships.
$1,000
Dick Beardsley · Bemidji, MN · 2025
Financial need
$1,000
Kelly Anderson · Harris, MN · 2025
Financial need
$1,000
Rick Sistad · Luck, WI · 2025
Financial need after fire damage
$1,000
Dean Johnson · Luck, WI · 2024
Financial need due to house fire
$1,000
Heidi Johnson Blatz · Rush City, MN · 2024
Donation for cancer benefit
$1,000
Zach Hedberg · Luck, WI · 2024
For rachel hedberg luck, wi resident in vehicle accident. Financial need.
$1,000
Tennille Lewis · North Branch, MN · 2023
Health assistance-cancer
$1,000
Clarice Stream · Rush City, MN · 2022
Hardship, funeral cost
$1,000
Jerry Schellback · Rush City, MN · 2022
Hardship, funeral cost
$1,000
Mike Branville · Luck, WI · 2022
Health issues
$500
Chisago County Historical Society · Lindstrom, MN · 2025
Operations
$500
Jesse Merkel · Minneapolis, MN · 2025
Financial need after child's death
$500
Bruce Hendricks · Frederic, WI · 2023
Donation for hams for the community. Low income during the holidays.
$500
Rock Steady Boxing · Cambridge, MN · 2023
Boxing for parkinson's patients
$500
Rush City Cares · Rush City, MN · 2023
Christmas caring tree project
$500
Frederic Area Historical Society · Frederic, WI · 2022
Operations
$500
Gary Miller · Pine City, MN · 2022
Hardship, funeral cost
$500
Mike Fisk · Osceola, WI · 2022
Help with life expenses, low income
$500
Rick Steltz · Rush City, MN · 2022
Health issues - bone cancer
$500
Rush City Cares · Rush City, MN · 2022
Christmas caring tree project
$454
City of Rush City · Rush City, MN · 2024
4 stock tanks for community garden
$300
Rock Steady Boxing · Cambridge, MN · 2022
Boxing for parkinson's patients
$100
Family of Maxine Sandberg · Cook, MN · 2022
Hardship, funeral cost

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