· Private foundation
Border States Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $217k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity Lake Agassiz | $100,000 |
| UND Center for Innovation Foundation | $63,659 |
| Down Home | $53,800 |
| United Way Cass Clay | $42,000 |
| American Red Cross | $15,000 |
| YWCA Cass Clay | $15,000 |
| TNT Kid's Fitness | $12,500 |
| Homeward Animal Shelter | $10,500 |
| Depelchin Childrens Center | $10,000 |
| Jeremiah Program | $7,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $6,000 |
| BIO Girls Inc | $5,300 |
| Fargo Theatre | $5,000 |
| Gi-Gi's Playhouse | $5,000 |
| ND FFA Foundation | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% 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.
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.
End hunger together.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
To improve lives by ending domestic violence.
To strengthen the capacity of individuals and families to improve their quality of life.
Empowering and Supporting People in Healthy Communities.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Cass Clay and the most unlike its peers is Hope Blooms. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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 32 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 Center for Innovation Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOWN HOME ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds TNT Kid's Fitness ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIO Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHERRY'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds The Great North Pole ↗
- Who funds Tri-City United Soccer Club ↗
- Who funds Red River Human Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNSEEN ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds Hope Blooms ↗
- Who funds Community of Care ↗
- Who funds BRAS FOR A CAUSE ↗
- Who funds THE BURRELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WEST TEXAS ↗
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: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Cass County Electric Cooperative Foundation · Dakota Medical Charities · Sanford Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Swanson Cares
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 Border States 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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