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Cass County Electric Cooperative Foundation

The foundation's mission is the accumulation and disbursement of funds for charitable purposes to tax exempt organizations and individuals/ families in need within the area served by Cass County Electric Cooperative, Inc.

$252k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$154kHousing & Shelter$61kArts & Culture$49kEducation$48kHealth$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kRecreation & Sports$29kCommunity Improvement$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $91,091, the rows itemized in this filing. The $252,460 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $161,369 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$26k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Heroes Compass$7,500
YWCA Cass Clay$7,500
St Catherine School$7,500
Kindred Park District$7,500
Fort Ransom Sodbuster Asso$7,500
Higher Power Automotive Mi$7,500
BIO Girls$7,500
Jasmin Child Care and Pres$7,500
Community Connect Center$6,700
Abused Persons Outreach Ce$6,500
Cass County Historical Soc$6,000
Colfax Park Board$5,991
Page Cafe Association$5,900
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 (FY20–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Rape & Abuse Crisis Center: $10k → 12%Rape & Abuse Crisis Center: $7k → 12%Hospice of the Red River V: $10k → 12%Hospice of the RRV: $10k → 12%American Red Cross: $10k → 12%YMCA of CassClay Counties: $10k → 12%YMCA of Cass & Clay Counti: $10k → 12%Higher Power Automotive Mi: $8k → 12%Hospice of the Red River V: $6k → 12%Bridging the Gap: $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.
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$294k · 15 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
26

Total granted

$294k
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+12%

Still filing today

93%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth 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

  • YC
    YWCA CASS CLAY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +47%
  • AP
    Abused Persons Outreach Center
    5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +37%
  • HO
    Hospice of the Red River Valley
    3× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • GP
    GIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • GR
    Grandin Rural Fire Protect
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
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
Red River Childrens Advocacy Center

To facilitate healing and justice for victims of sexual and physical abuse, neglect and exploitation and to engage the community to protect and support children.

Youth Development
2
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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3
Easter Seals Goodwill Nd Inc

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.

Health
4
Family Promise in Anoka County

Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.

Human Services
5
St Annes Guest Home

St. Anne's Guest Home, a Catholic Health Care Facility, embraces residents of all faiths, genders, and races in creating an environment of living the gospel message through providing services, regardless of financial status, to maintain…

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6
Living Well Disability Services

Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.

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7
Dream Center Bismarck

Our mission is to connect people to a community of support by offering free resources and services that address immediate and long-term needs. Partner agencies and the Dream Center will work in many different areas including nutrition,…

Human Services
8
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
9
Face It Together - Bismarck-Mandan

To get people with addiction and their loved ones well.

Human Services
10
Odd Fellows and Rebekah Home of North Dakota Inc

It is the mission of the Odd Fellows Home to be a "Place Where Somebody Cares." This has been the motto off Odd Fellows Home since the 1925 dedication. The Odd Fellows Home's mission is to provide a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere as…

Housing & Shelter
11
Northeastern Utah Friends Against Family Violence

Friends Against Family Violence (FAFV) is a community based nonprofit domestic violence program. FAFV provides services, shelter, crisis intervention, and prevention in the Tri-County of Uintah, Duchesne, and Daggett. We provide services…

Health
12
Family Pathways

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Cass Clay; the most unlike its peers is Buffalo Day Care Inc. 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

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Abused Persons Outreach Center: $29,500 · OtherAbused Persons Outreach CenterVillage Family Service Center: $20,000 · OtherVillage Family Service CenterLake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity: $17,500 · OtherLake Agassiz Habitat for HumanityRed River Human Services Foundation: $16,000 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $16,000 · OtherNORTH DAKOTA SCOTTISH RITE CHILDHOOD LANG CTR: $13,250 · OtherJASMIN SERVICES: $12,800 · Other+26 more: $195,064 · Other+26 moreHospice of the Red River Valley: $25,500 · Human ServicesHospice of the Re…YMCA of the Northern Sky: $20,000 · Human ServicesYMCA of the North…Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead: $17,000 · Human ServicesRape and Abuse Cr…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National…Higher Power Automotive Ministries Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesHigher Power Auto…BRIDGING THE GAP: $5,300 · Human ServicesBRIDGING THE GAPYWCA CASS CLAY: $37,412 · Housing & ShelterYWCA CASS C…JEREMIAH PROGRAM: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PR…SOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION: $19,300 · Community ImprovementPAGE CAFE ASSOCIATION: $5,900 · Community ImprovementBIO Girls Inc: $20,400 · Youth DevelopmentCass County North Dakota Historical Society: $12,177 · Arts & CultureFARGO-MOORHEAD CHORAL ARTISTS: $5,500 · Arts & CultureShare House Inc: $10,000 · HealthRIDING FOR DREAMS: $6,000 · Health
Other$320,114Human Services$85,300Housing & Shelter$54,912Community Improvement$25,200Youth Development$20,400Arts & Culture$17,677Health$16,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA CASS CLAY: $37,412 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAbused Persons Outreach Center: $29,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetHospice of the Red River Valley: $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIO Girls Inc: $20,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVillage Family Service Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of the Northern Sky: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION: $19,300 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead: $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRed River Human Services Foundation: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA SCOTTISH RITE CHILDHOOD LANG CTR: $13,250 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCass County North Dakota Historical Society: $12,177 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShare House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #2192: $8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO DAY CARE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFargo Union Mission: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHigher Power Automotive Ministries Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRANSOM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,900 over 1y, 17% of budgetDOWN HOME: $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRIDING FOR DREAMS: $6,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY UPLIFT PROGRAM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHarwood Area Fire & Rescue Inc: $5,600 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

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 Shiel…The Barry FoundationFargo-Moorhead Area F…Alex Stern Family Fou…Dakota Medical Founda…North Dakota Communit…Midcontinent Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustOffutt Family Foundat…United Way of Cass-Cl…Sanford Group ReturnImpact Foundation
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring FoundationND46.2× affinity20 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 · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Offutt Family Foundation · United Way of Cass-Clay · Sanford Group Return · Impact Foundation

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 Cass County Electric Cooperative Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cass County Electric Cooperative Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Cass County Electric Cooperative Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cass County Electric Cooperative Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 48 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 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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