· Public charity
Altru Health System
ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM is a community of over 3,400 health professionals and support staff, and we've been committed to caring for our region for more than 130 years.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $212,313 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $424,289 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $211,976 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $198k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF GRAND FORKS | $42,500 |
| GRAND FORKS REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $30,000 |
| GRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $27,300 |
| DEVILS LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $25,100 |
| GRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | $22,500 |
| COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| ALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION | $14,673 |
| THE CHAMBER GRAND FORKSEAST GRAND FORKS | $11,352 |
| GREATER GRAND FORKS YOUNG PROFESSIONALS | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND AREA INC | $7,000 |
| GREATER NORTH DAKOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $6,888 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $583k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UAUND Alumni Association and Foundation6× · 2017–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +2%
- GFGRAND FORKS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +1%
- GFGRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIA6× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- LRLake Region Ambulance Servicegraduatedone grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue +69%
- PRPARK RIVER LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP INCone grant, 2019 · $24k
- FFIRSTLINKgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +69%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
To promote, build, educate, and help entrepreneurial, startup, and creative communities in grand forks, north dakota and the surrounding region
To promote tourism and solicit conventions, tournaments and trade shows to the greater grand forks area.
The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.
The mission of the great falls area chamber of commerce is to drive business success, connect leaders, cultivate partnerships, and shape community solutions to build a thriving future for great falls.
End hunger together.
To provide support services for Youth Football Activities in the Great Grand Forks region
The greater fargo moorhead economic development corporation (gfmedc) is a catalyst for economic growth and prosperity. using a comprehensive approach to economic development, the gfmedc accelerates job and wealth creation in cass county,…
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
To promote, support and advocate for the chamber's members, strengthen the economic climate of the coeur d'alene area, and further the free enterprise system.
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Chamber. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UND Alumni Association and Foundation ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIA ↗
- Who funds ALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND THE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER GRAND FORKS YOUNG PROFESSIONALS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS MARATHON INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Region Ambulance Service ↗
- Who funds Dakota Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAYVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER NORTH DAKOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds FIRSTLINK ↗
- Who funds BIO Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds EAST GRAND FORKS BLUELINE CLUB INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Region · Myra Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Greater Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureau · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Innovis Health LLC · Dakota Medical Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Burgum Foundation · Botsford Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Altru Health System funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.