Hartz Foundation
Thief River Falls, MN · EIN 41-6041638. Reported 93 grants totalling $728,722 to 50 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Hartz Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northland Community & Technical College Foundation | Thief River Falls, MN | $134,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Discovery Place | Thief River Falls, MN | $64,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Warren | Warren, MN | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Violence Intervention Project | Thief River Falls, MN | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pennington County Historical Society | Thief River Falls, MN | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Prairie Pines Childcare Center | Fosston, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Thief River Falls Athletic Association | Thief River Falls, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Warroad Community Childcare Center | Warroad, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Falls Dac | Thief River Falls, MN | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Moorhead State University Foundation | Moorhead, MN | $19,750 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Thief River Falls Education Foundation | Thief River Falls, MN | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Roseau County Historical Society | Roseau, MN | $18,147 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Karlstad Country Club | Karlstad, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Fargo, ND | $13,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts Dakota Horizons | Sioux Falls, SD | $13,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Blue Water Covenant Bible Camp | Grand Rapids, MN | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thief River Falls Area Community Theater | Thief River Falls, MN | $11,425 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Karlstad - Park Board | Karlstad, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greenbush Community Partners | Greenbush, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Isd #561 | Goodridge, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Middle River Legacy Center | Middle River, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oklee Fire Department | Oklee, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Welcome House | Fergus Falls, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St John Lutheran School | Thief River Falls, MN | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Johns Lutheran School | Thief River Falls, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Advance Thief River | Thief River Falls, MN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clearwater County Historical Society | Bagley, MN | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Prairie Public Television | Fargo, ND | $6,750 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Thief River Falls Area Community Theather | Thief River Falls, MN | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| City of Karlstad | Karlstad, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| City of Karlstad - Fire Department | Karlstad, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Falls Delivered Meals | Thief River Falls, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Goodridge Isd | Goodridge, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hospice of Red River Valley | Fargo, ND | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kittson County Historical Society Museum | Lake Bronson, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Brother Little Sister of Pennington County | Thief River Falls, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Social Services of Mn | St Paul, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marshall County Area Veterans Memorial Park | Warren, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marshall County Historical Society | Warren, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marshall County Veterans Memorial | Warren, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Norskids | Thief River Falls, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Thief River Falls Area Food Shelf | Thief River Falls, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bemidji State University | Bemidji, MN | $4,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Red Lake Falls Volunteer Ambulance | Red Lake Falls, MN | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Brother Little Sister | Thief River Falls, MN | $2,700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Thief River Falls Concert Association | Thief River Falls, MN | $2,350 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Pennington County 4-H | Thief River Falls, MN | $2,200 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Bio Girls | Fargo, ND | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thief River Falls Veterans Memorial | Thief River Falls, MN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Minnesota Public Radio | Moorhead, MN | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
17 of 50 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 52%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Discovery Place
BUILDING REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE - Thief River Falls Athletic Association
PUBLIC GOLF COURSE IMPROVEMENTS - Violence Intervention Project
INSTALL PRIVACY FENCE AND PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT - City of Warren
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NEW CHILDCARE FACILITY IN WARREN - Warroad Community Childcare Center
FURNISHING AND SIGNAGE FOR NEW CHILDCARE FACILITY - Falls Dac
PURCHASE OF PASSENGER VAN FOR CLIENT TRANSPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 23 | $214,597 | $5,000 |
| 2021 | 8 | $39,350 | $2,025 |
| 2022 | 19 | $132,600 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 22 | $164,775 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 21 | $177,400 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
94% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Minnesota.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Hartz Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 642, Thief River Falls, MN, 56701. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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