· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of Cass County Electric Cooperative Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $91,091 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $252,460 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $161,369 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fort Ransom Sodbuster Asso | $7,500 |
| Heroes Compass | $7,500 |
| YWCA Cass Clay | $7,500 |
| St Catherine School | $7,500 |
| Higher Power Automotive Mi | $7,500 |
| Kindred Park District | $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 |
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 (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 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 +42% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- YCYWCA CASS CLAY5× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +47%
- APAbused Persons Outreach Center5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +37%
- HOHospice of the Red River Valley3× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
- GPGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- GRGrandin Rural Fire Protectone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
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.
Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.
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…
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
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,…
North Dakota Assistive delivers services to people with disabilities so they can get the assistive technology they need for work, school, and home.
To get people with addiction and their loved ones well.
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…
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…
Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Cass Clay and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 48 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 YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds Abused Persons Outreach Center ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Red River Valley ↗
- Who funds BIO Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗
- Who funds YMCA of the Northern Sky ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead ↗
- Who funds Red River Human Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA SCOTTISH RITE CHILDHOOD LANG CTR ↗
- Who funds JASMIN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Cass County North Dakota Historical Society ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Share House Inc ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #2192 ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO DAY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Higher Power Automotive Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Fargo Union Mission ↗
- Who funds RANSOM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY UPLIFT PROGRAM ↗
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 · 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
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 Cass County Electric Cooperative 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
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.