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Brandt Family 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northern Cass Community Health and Wellness | $1,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $1,000 |
| Dakota Medical Foundation | $500 |
| Roger Maris Cancer Center | $500 |
| Fraser Ltd | $250 |
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, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +13% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- HOHospice of the Red River Valley2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +13%
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +42%
- RRRed River Childrens Advocacy Center5× · 2018–2022 · $11k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- TTTHE THIELEN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -19%
- MSMetro Sports Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -10%
- AFAO1 FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +18%
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.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
To put Christian principles into practices through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
End hunger together.
To strengthen the capacity of individuals and families to improve their quality of life.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Committed to improving the wellness of families.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
To promote quality care in long term health care facilities through education and research.
The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.
We are an accredited state chapter of the national children's alliance. as the statewide leader we develop, train and sustain high-quality children's advocacy centers and multi-disciplinary teams.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Easter Seals Goodwill ND, Inc. is a leading organization in supporting children, adults, and families to have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anne Carlsen Center and the most unlike its peers is Red River Valley Veterans Concert Band Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 Hospice of the Red River Valley ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Red River Childrens Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds Metro Sports Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AO1 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds United Way of Cass-Clay ↗
- Who funds The Great North Pole ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER VALLEY VETERANS CONCERT BAND INC ↗
- Who funds Dakota Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEGACY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRASER LTD ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Northern Cass Community Health & Wellness Center ↗
- Who funds FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of the Northern Sky ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINOT ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
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 · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Impact Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · Dakota Medical Charities · Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust
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 Brandt Family 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.
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