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Bismarck Area Catholic Education Foundation

Provide financial assistance for religious education

$387k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$291k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.1MReligion$895k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $89k
  • $250k+1 grant · $291k
$15,167
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$290,606
CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH$29,770
CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISH$19,231
CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE PARISH$15,167
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION PARISH$12,937
PRO-CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY'S$12,014
CHURCH OF SAINT HILDEGARD PARISH$7,749
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $294k → 10%LIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $291k → 10%LIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $286k → 10%LIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $229k → 10%CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH: $82k → 10%CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH: $79k → 10%CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISH: $58k → 10%CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISH: $55k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT MARY'S PARISH: $52k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE PARISH: $47k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE PARISH: $47k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT MARY'S PARISH: $44k → 10%CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH: $30k → 10%CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH: $29k → 10%CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH: $28k → 10%CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH: $22k → 10%CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISH: $19k → 10%CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISH: $19k → 10%CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISH: $18k → 10%PRO-CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY'S: $16k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE PARISH: $15k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE PARISH: $15k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE PARISH: $15k → 10%CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISH: $14k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE PARISH: $12k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT MARY'S PARISH: $12k → 10%PRO-CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY'S: $12k → 10%PRO-CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY'S: $12k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT HILDEGARD PARISH: $8k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT HILDEGARD PARISH: $8k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT HILDEGARD PARISH: $8k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT HILDEGARD PARISH: $6k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT HILDEGARD PARISH: $5k → 10%CHURCH OF SAINT HILDEGARD PARISH: $5k → 10%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION PARISH: $31k → 10%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION PARISH: $23k → 10%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION PARISH: $13k → 10%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION PARISH: $13k → 10%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION PARISH: $13k → 10%CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION PARISH: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 8 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
0

Total granted

$2.0M
$0

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LO
    LIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M
  • CO
    CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH
    6× · 2018–2024 · $270k
  • CO
    CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISH
    6× · 2018–2024 · $183k

Funded once

    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.

    04Its field
    04the grantee network

    0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2024.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 8 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    0/0
    Grantees still filing
    0/0
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    LIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $1,100,022 · OtherLIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLSCHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH: $269,803 · OtherCHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI PARISHCATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISH: $183,483 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PARISHCHURCH OF SAINT ANNE PARISH: $151,387 · OtherCHURCH OF SAINT ANNE PARISHCHURCH OF SAINT MARY'S PARISH: $107,550 · OtherCHURCH OF SAINT MARY'S PARISHCHURCH OF THE ASCENSION PARISH: $103,096 · Other+2 more: $79,299 · Other
    Other$1,994,640

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bismarck Area Catholic Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bismarck Area Catholic Education Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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