Wild Rice Electric Trust
Mahnomen, MN · EIN 41-6398173. Reported 51 grants totalling $100,382 to 51 recipients across tax years 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. Wild Rice Electric Trust 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 $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $750 and $2,500; the smallest was $750 and the largest $8,500. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woods and Wheels Atv Club | Detroit Lakes, MN | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Veterans Honor Flight Ndmn | Moorhead, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center of Human Environment | Mahnomen, MN | $4,610 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minnesota State Community and Technical College | Moorhead, MN | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minnesota State University Moorhead | Moorhead, MN | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Dakota State University | Fargo, ND | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Detroit Lakes | Detroit Lakes, MN | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mahube-Otwa Community Council | Detroit Lakes, MN | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Flyers Gymnastics & Fitness | Detroit Lakes, MN | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of North Dakota | Grand Forks, ND | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Becker County Historical Society Museum | Detroit Lakes, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boy Scout Troop #655 of Twin Valley | Twin Valley, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elbow-Tulaby Lakes Volunteer Fire Dept | Waubun, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lake Park Audubon School Readiness Pre-K | Audubon, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Smiley's Rescues | Fertile, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ucb Youth Wrestling | Hawley, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wem School District 2609 | Erskine, MN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bemidji State University | Bemidji, MN | $2,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Concordia College | Moorhead, MN | $2,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lakes Crisis and Resource Center | Detroit Lakes, MN | $2,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge | Rochert, MN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hawley Baseball Club | Hawley, MN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hawley Diamond Club | Hawley, MN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mahnomen Volunteer Fire Dept | Mahnomen, MN | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mahnomen County Agricultural Society | Mahnomen, MN | $1,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Freedom Christian Academy | Erskine, MN | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Inter County Communities Council | Oklee, MN | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northland Community and Technical College | Thief River Falls, MN | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tri-Valley Opportunity Council | Crookston, MN | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hospice of the Red River Valley | Detroit Lakes, MN | $1,122 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grace and Grit | Erskine, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Take-a-Kid Fishing | Waubun, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Check Six | Lake Park, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Michael's School | Mahnomen, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Win-E-Mac School Robotics | Erskine, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mahnomen Area Baseball | Mahnomen, MN | $800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Becker County Food Shelf | Detroit Lakes, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dakota County Technical College | Rosemount, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fertile-Beltrami Food Shelf | Fertile, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grace Community Food Shelf | Erskine, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Helping Hands Food Shelf | Mahnomen, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Loaves and Fishes Food Shelf | Fosston, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Reach Food Pantry | Hawley, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwest Minnesota State University | Marshall, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Svdp Good Samaritan Food Shelf | Twin Valley, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tennessee Technological University | Cookeville, TN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Arizona | Tuscon, AZ | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota Crookston | Crookston, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota Morris | Morris, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota Twin Cities | Minneapolis, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Food Shelf | Ada, MN | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
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.
- Woods and Wheels Atv Club
EQUIPMENT TO DEVELOP NEW TRAILS, HELMETS TO YOUTH - Center of Human Environment
2 AEDS AND COMMERCIAL MICROWAVE - Boys & Girls Club of Detroit Lakes
3 BASIN STAINLESS STEEL SINKS, STAINLESS TABLES - Mahube-Otwa Community Council
(2 LOCATIONS) REACH OUT FOR WARMTH PROGRAM - Minnesota Flyers Gymnastics & Fitness
EQUIPMENT FOR FLYTIME PROGRAM - Becker County Historical Society Museum
EDUCATIONAL OUTDOORS SPACE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 11 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.
Where its money goes
92% 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 $1,500. 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 Wild Rice Electric Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. 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: 502 N Main, Mahnomen, MN, 56557. 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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