North Dakota · Private foundation
Burgum Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $16,375
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $145,659
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Burgum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $422k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $1.0M | 45% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $965k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $601k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $556k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $401k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $253k | 85% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $141k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $197k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Mary | $462,325 | 4 | 0% |
| UND Alumni Association and Foundation | $290,178 | 4 | 0% |
| Bill of Rights Institute | $201,907 | 3 | 1% |
| Nexus-Path Family Healing | $152,661 | 3 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $145,659 | 1 | 0% |
| Valley City State University | $92,115 | 2 | n/a |
| North Dakota State University Foundation | $89,388 | 2 | 0% |
| Devils Lake Public Schools | $87,312 | 2 | n/a |
| Growing Small Towns | $78,125 | 2 | 24% |
| Dakotas United Methodist Foundation | $78,007 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Mary | $462,325 | 4 | 0% |
| UND Alumni Association and Foundation | $290,178 | 4 | 0% |
| Bill of Rights Institute | $201,907 | 3 | 1% |
| Nexus-Path Family Healing | $152,661 | 3 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $145,659 | 1 | 0% |
| Valley City State University | $92,115 | 2 | n/a |
| North Dakota State University Foundation | $89,388 | 2 | 0% |
| Devils Lake Public Schools | $87,312 | 2 | n/a |
| Growing Small Towns | $78,125 | 2 | 24% |
| Dakotas United Methodist Foundation | $78,007 | 3 | n/a |
| Anne Carlsen Center | $61,390 | 2 | 0% |
| Hillsboro Public Schools | $57,368 | 4 | n/a |
| Hope Blooms | $47,221 | 4 | 12% |
| Emerging Prairie | $35,766 | 5 | 1% |
| Young Life | $31,828 | 2 | 0% |
| Churches United | $25,355 | 3 | 0% |
| Haley's Hope Inc | $20,375 | 1 | 2% |
| BIO Girls Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Our Lady of the Rosary | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fargo Memorial Honor Guard | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Swift Eagle Charitable Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Define the Fight Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| TNT Kid's Fitness | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jeremiah Program | $6,245 | 1 | 0% |
| Charism | $6,070 | 1 | 1% |
| Seattle Children's Foundation | $5,048 | 1 | 0% |
| Village Family Service Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota | $1,270 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Burgum Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Sanford Group Return · Offutt Family Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Dakota Medical Charities · The Barry Foundation · Innovis Health LLC
How this is measured
About Burgum Foundation
- How much does Burgum Foundation give?
- Burgum Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $1,019,412 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Burgum Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Human Services (7%), Health (6%).
- Who are Burgum Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Mary ($462k), UND Alumni Association and Foundation ($290k), Bill of Rights Institute ($202k).
- Does Burgum Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burgum 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 Burgum Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, Midcontinent Foundation, Dakota Medical Foundation.
- Where is Burgum Foundation based?
- Burgum Foundation is based in ND.
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