· Private foundation
Arthur & Edith Pearson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $52,000 |
| BOTTINEAU AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT MEDORA FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| NEWBURG UNITED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| WESTHOPE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP | $30,000 |
| WESTHOPE PUBLIC SCHOOL | $29,000 |
| WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA HONOR FLIGHT | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP | $23,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARY | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS INC | $15,000 |
| MOHALL PUBLIC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BSC FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTheodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +154%
- IMINTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP4× · 2022–2025 · $88k · revenue +19%
- CCCAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- BWBOTTINEAU WINTER PARK INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +40%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- IPINTERNATIONAL PEACE GARDENSone grant, 2020 · $42k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota
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.
Provide assistance to low income individuals through the community action self sufficiency programs and energy conservation assistance through the agency's weatherization program.
YFC reaches young people everywhere, together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion for sharing the love of Christ and commitment to social…
To maintain national leadership in entrepreneur outreach and education, and become the leader in tech entrepreneurship in rural America.
To provide higher education opportunities, at the community college level, including vocational and technical training. as a tribal community college, we emphasize the teaching and learning of dakota culture and language toward the…
Children's mental health
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
Promote economic development in the mitchell, sd area
The purpose of south dakota youth hunting adventures is to instill in young people, a lifelong enthusiasm and respect for the outdoors, hunting and landowners, teach hunter safety, ethics, wildlife and habitat conservation by providing a…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP ↗
- Who funds ANTLER OUTLAWS ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS ↗
- Who funds BOTTINEAU WINTER PARK INC ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL DAKOTA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Ichf Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · Inspiritus Community Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Northwest North Dakota Community Foundation Inc · Minot Community Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Otto Bremer Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arthur & Edith Pearson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur & Edith Pearson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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