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Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
284
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$2.0MEducation$886kHuman Services$665kPhilanthropy$623kYouth Development$264kRecreation & Sports$248kFood & Nutrition$225kCommunity Improvement$163kOther$0
02FY2025 · 284 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k258 grants · $480k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $469k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$1,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Standing Rock Community Development Corporation$25,000
Hazelton Development Corporation$25,000
American Indian Public Health Resource Center$25,000
Great Plains Food Bank$25,000
Spectra Health$25,000
Turtle Mountain Chippewa Heritage Center$20,000
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention ND Chapter$19,500
Immigrant Development Center$15,000
Sacred Pipe Resource Center$15,000
Fargo Moorhead Coalition to End Homelessness$15,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ESHARA: $5k → 14%Standing Rock Community Development Corporation: $25k → 33%Lutheran Social Services of MN: $10k → 14%Standing Rock Community Development Corporation: $8k → 33%Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $3k → 14%Fix It Forward Ministry: $5k → 11%Hopes Landing WEM: $3k → 9%Global Friends Coalition: $5k → 13%North Dakota Autism Center: $40k → 12%Project BEE: $10k → 10%ND Autism Center: $15k → 12%Haleys Hope: $8k → 12%Independence Inc: $5k → 10%North Dakota Autism Center: $8k → 12%Project BEE: $5k → 10%Haleys Hope: $3k → 12%Project BEE: $3k → 10%Independence Inc: $3k → 10%Dream Center Bismarck: $35k → 10%Sacred Pipe Resource Center: $15k → 10%Cares for Cancer: $5k → 10%TR Heart N Soul: $3k → 10%Youthworks: $3k → 10%TR 4 Heart and Soul: $3k → 10%Prairie Harvest Mental Health: $20k → 13%Dakota Children's Advocacy Center: $15k → 10%Missouri Valley Family YMCA: $10k → 10%Missouri Valley Family YMCA: $10k → 10%Missouri Valley Family YMCA: $10k → 10%Missouri Valley Family YMCA: $10k → 10%Missouri Valley Family YMCA: $10k → 10%Native American Development Center: $8k → 10%Mountain-Plains Youth Services Coalition: $5k → 10%Rape and Abuse Crisis Center: $5k → 12%Handi-Wheels Transportation: $4k → 12%Bismarck Global Neighbors: $3k → 10%Dream Center Bismarck: $3k → 10%FirstLink: $27k → 12%Nexus-PATH Family Health: $23k → 12%Rape and Abuse Crisis Center: $15k → 12%Nexus-PATH Family Healing: $8k → 12%FirstLink: $6k → 12%Youthworks: $5k → 12%Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency: $15k → 12%Community of Care: $3k → 12%Community of Care: $5k → 12%Community of Care: $5k → 12%Community of Care: $5k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
SD
IA
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 256 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

256
431

Total granted

$3.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+12%

Still filing today

57%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SH
    SPECTRA HEALTH
    5× · 2018–2025 · $117k · revenue +87%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue +35%
  • GP
    Great Plains Food Bank
    8× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $54k
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF THE DAKOTASgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +53%
  • NH
    NORTHLAND HEALTH PARTNERS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue -14%
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

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.

1
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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2
North Dakota News Cooperative
Arts & Culture
3
Face It Together - Bismarck-Mandan

To get people with addiction and their loved ones well.

Human Services
4
North Dakota Assistive

North Dakota Assistive delivers services to people with disabilities so they can get the assistive technology they need for work, school, and home.

Education
5
North Dakota Long Term Care Association

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.

—
6
Northwood Deaconess Health Center

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.

Health
7
Nd Association of Counties

NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.

—
8
Family Wellness Bismarck-Mandan Llc

Committed to improving the wellness of families.

Human Services
9
St Luke's Home

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…

Human Services
10
Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center

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,…

Health
11
Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce

The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.

—
12
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Dakota; 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.
04the grantee network

293 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. 293 of the 798 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
87
Early backer (in before they grew)
284/293
Grantees still filing
191/293
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way of Cass-Clay: $451,906 · OtherUnited Way of Cass-ClayUND Grants & Contracts Administration: $313,498 · OtherUND Grants & Contracts AdministrationNorth Dakota State University: $122,300 · OtherUniversity of North Dakota: $105,140 · Other+128 more: $2,071,606 · Other+128 moreSPECTRA HEALTH: $117,296 · HealthSPECTRA HEALTHDakota Medical Foundation: $53,450 · HealthDakota Medical…WOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN: $52,000 · HealthWOMEN EMPOWERI…COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF THE DAKOTAS: $40,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEAL…ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $39,000 · HealthESSENTIA HEALT…HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION: $35,500 · HealthHERO HEALTHCAR…NORTHLAND HEALTH PARTNERS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $35,000 · HealthNORTHLAND HEAL…FAMILY VOICES OF NORTH DAKOTA INC: $35,000 · HealthFAMILY VOICES …DAKOTA FAMILY SERVICES: $30,000 · HealthWESTERN WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · HealthHEARTVIEW FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthBRAVE THE SHAVE: $19,667 · Health+10 more: $80,338 · Health+10 moreNorth Dakota Autism Center Inc: $64,202 · Human ServicesNorth Dakot…Missouri Valley Family YMCA: $47,500 · Human ServicesMissouri Va…Dream Center Bismarck: $37,500 · Human ServicesDream Cente…FIRSTLINK: $35,561 · Human ServicesFIRSTLINKSTANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $32,500 · Human ServicesSTANDING RO…NEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING: $31,087 · Human ServicesNEXUS-PATH …Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead: $25,100 · Human ServicesCommunity of Care: $21,752 · Human ServicesPROJECT BEE: $20,200 · Human ServicesPRAIRIE HARVEST MENTAL HEALTH: $20,000 · Human ServicesHope Blooms: $19,790 · Human ServicesSOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $18,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $17,500 · Human Services+12 more: $102,600 · Human Services+12 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIO Girls Inc: $45,600 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $10,600 · Youth DevelopmentRed River Childrens Advocacy Center: $10,453 · Youth DevelopmentANNE CARLSEN CENTER: $39,100 · EducationBismarck State College Foundation: $37,500 · EducationUniversity of Mary: $20,000 · EducationPEACE ACADEMY INC: $12,700 · EducationCANKDESKA CIKANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $12,500 · EducationUniversity of Jamestown: $12,500 · EducationUCODEGIRL: $5,200 · EducationMISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY: $67,250 · PhilanthropySOURIS VALLEY UNITED WAY: $27,450 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY NORTH DAKOTA: $13,500 · PhilanthropyImpact Foundation: $10,500 · PhilanthropyNORTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTNT Kid's Fitness: $60,500 · Recreation & SportsFargo Park District Foundation: $22,750 · Recreation & SportsJAMESTOWN PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH DAKOTA INC: $6,616 · Recreation & SportsPRAIRIE GRIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,064,450Health$578,251Human Services$493,292Youth Development$156,653Education$139,500Philanthropy$123,700Recreation & Sports$105,866

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Cass-Clay: $451,906 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSPECTRA HEALTH: $117,296 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $89,614 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY: $67,250 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNorth Dakota Autism Center Inc: $64,202 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTNT Kid's Fitness: $60,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetYWCA CASS CLAY: $55,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetDakota Medical Foundation: $53,450 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN: $52,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetMissouri Valley Family YMCA: $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIO Girls Inc: $45,600 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetF5 PROJECT: $42,404 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF THE DAKOTAS: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetANNE CARLSEN CENTER: $39,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDream Center Bismarck: $37,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBismarck State College Foundation: $37,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFIRSTLINK: $35,561 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetHERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION: $35,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHLAND HEALTH PARTNERS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY VOICES OF NORTH DAKOTA INC: $35,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetVillage Family Service Center: $32,925 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING: $31,087 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAKOTA FAMILY SERVICES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND THE AREA INC: $27,667 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSOURIS VALLEY UNITED WAY: $27,450 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetRape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead: $25,100 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBISMARCK RECREATION COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetENHANCING AND STRENGTHENING NORTH DAKOTA NONPROFITS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity of Care: $21,752 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetWESTERN WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetPROJECT BEE: $20,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHEARTVIEW FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRAIRIE HARVEST MENTAL HEALTH: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUniversity of Mary: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope Blooms: $19,790 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetBRAVE THE SHAVE: $19,667 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGUARDIAN AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES INC: $16,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUSPIREND: $15,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetShare House Inc: $15,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTOBACCO FREE NORTH DAKOTA: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMINOT AREA RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $15,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A HEALTHY NORTH DAKOTA: $13,500 over 2y, 0.7% of 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.

  • 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 Dream Center Bismarck ↗
  • Who funds Bismarck State College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FIRSTLINK ↗
  • Who funds HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND HEALTH PARTNERS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY VOICES OF NORTH DAKOTA INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Barry FoundationMidcontinent Foundati…North Dakota Communit…Fargo-Moorhead Area F…Dakota Medical Founda…Alex Stern Family Fou…Offutt Family Foundat…Sanford Group ReturnImpact FoundationOtto Bremer TrustUnited Way of Cass-Cl…Great Plains Food Bank
The Barry FoundationND161× affinity84 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 798 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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    The endowment market
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