· Private foundation
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k258 grants · $480k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $469k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Cass-Clay | $60,000 |
| Junior Achievement North | $45,000 |
| North Dakota Autism Center | $40,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $30,000 |
| FirstLink | $26,500 |
| American Indian Public Health Resource Center | $25,000 |
| Standing Rock Community Development Corporation | $25,000 |
| Hazelton Development Corporation | $25,000 |
| Spectra Health | $25,000 |
| Great Plains Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Turtle Mountain Chippewa Heritage Center | $20,000 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention ND Chapter | $19,500 |
| Fargo Moorhead Coalition to End Homelessness | $15,000 |
| Sacred Pipe Resource Center | $15,000 |
| Immigrant Development Center | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $512k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
256 repeat relationships — 127 still active in FY2025, 129 since wound down; 107 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k 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
- SHSPECTRA HEALTH5× · 2018–2025 · $117k · revenue +87%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA3× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue +35%
- GPGreat Plains Food Bank8× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $54k
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF THE DAKOTASgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +53%
- NCNative Community Development Inc dba Native Incone grant, 2021 · $35k
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.
To get people with addiction and their loved ones well.
North Dakota Assistive delivers services to people with disabilities so they can get the assistive technology they need for work, school, and home.
We are a professional association of long term care and community service providers who enhance the lives of people we serve through collaboration, education and advocacy.
Serve as a local access to a full range of health care services. continue as a leader in primary care for the whole family, in care of the elderly, and in emergency services. Function as a focal point for health education and wellness.
NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.
Committed to improving the wellness of families.
St. Luke's Home and its assisted living facility, Park Avenue Villa, exist to provide a continuum of quality care to God's people, creating a compassionate, comfortable, and family oriented atmosphere, striving to enhance the dignity and…
To advance the health of patients and communities we serve through a culture of leadership, continuous improvement and accountability. Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center (JMHCC) understands the relationship that exists between body,…
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Matthew 25 Project Minot. 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 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
293 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. 293 of the 799 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 United Way of Cass-Clay ↗
- Who funds SPECTRA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds North Dakota Autism Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TNT Kid's Fitness ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds Dakota Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Missouri Valley Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds BIO Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds F5 PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF THE DAKOTAS ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bismarck State College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dream Center Bismarck ↗
- Who funds FIRSTLINK ↗
- Who funds HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VOICES OF NORTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND HEALTH PARTNERS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗
- Who funds STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds NEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND ↗
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: The Barry Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Impact Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Cass-Clay · Great Plains Food Bank
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 Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation 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.