How much does Border States Foundation give?

Border States Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $634,736 in its FY2026 IRS filing.

What does Border States Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2026, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (38%), Community Improvement (16%), Human Services (13%).

Who are Border States Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2025 to FY2026: Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation ($200k), UND Center for Innovation Foundation ($178k), Down Home ($104k).

Does Border States Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Border States Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, The Barry Foundation, Dakota Medical Foundation.

Where is Border States Foundation based?

Border States Foundation is based in ND.

Foundation Dossiers

North Dakota · Private foundation

Border States Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$635k
Granted FY2026(still arriving): 30
Grants FY2026: 31
Organizations funded FY2025

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Median grant, FY2026: $6,535
Largest grant, FY2026: $200,000
States reached, FY2026: 6
Total assets, FY2026: $13M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation	$200,000	1	n/a
UND Center for Innovation Foundation	$178,395	2	n/a
Down Home	$103,800	2	n/a
Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity	$100,000	1	n/a
United Way of Cass-Clay	$37,000	1	n/a
YWCA Cass Clay	$30,000	2	n/a
BIO Girls Inc	$26,835	2	n/a
TNT Kid's Fitness	$25,000	2	n/a
Homeward Animal Shelter Inc	$18,156	2	0%
Schmidt Healing Hearts Foundation	$13,402	1	n/a

Show all 34 grantees

All grantees of Border States Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation	$200,000	1	n/a
UND Center for Innovation Foundation	$178,395	2	n/a
Down Home	$103,800	2	n/a
Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity	$100,000	1	n/a
United Way of Cass-Clay	$37,000	1	n/a
YWCA Cass Clay	$30,000	2	n/a
BIO Girls Inc	$26,835	2	n/a
TNT Kid's Fitness	$25,000	2	n/a
Homeward Animal Shelter Inc	$18,156	2	0%
Schmidt Healing Hearts Foundation	$13,402	1	n/a
Jeremiah Program	$11,855	2	0%
The Justin Wren Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Depelchin Children's Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Heart-N-Soul Community Cafe Inc	$8,000	1	n/a
Tri-City United Soccer Club	$8,000	2	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Red River Valley Inc	$7,095	1	n/a
Wounded Warrior Project Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Leflore County Humane Society	$6,000	1	n/a
The Great North Pole	$5,267	2	n/a
Sherry's Hope Inc	$5,000	1	1%
North Dakota FFA Foundation Incorporated	$5,000	1	n/a
Gigis Playhouse Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Hope Blooms	$4,681	2	n/a
Red River Human Services Foundation	$3,000	1	0%
Furniture Mission of the Red River Valley	$2,934	1	n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America	$2,500	1	n/a
Unseen	$2,000	1	0%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention	$2,000	1	0%
Opportunity Foundation Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Essentia Health Foundation	$1,000	1	n/a
Community of Care	$1,000	1	n/a
The Burrell Foundation	$1,000	1	1%
Bras for a Cause	$1,000	1	n/a
Casa of West Texas	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Border States Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring FoundationND34.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Border States Foundation

How much does Border States Foundation give?: Border States Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $634,736 in its FY2026 IRS filing.
What does Border States Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2026, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (38%), Community Improvement (16%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Border States Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2025 to FY2026: Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation ($200k), UND Center for Innovation Foundation ($178k), Down Home ($104k).
Does Border States Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Border States Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, The Barry Foundation, Dakota Medical Foundation.
Where is Border States Foundation based?: Border States Foundation is based in ND.