· Private foundation
Charles P & Mary E Belgarde 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Charles P & Mary E Belgarde Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2025, the last year Charles P & Mary E Belgarde Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $128k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK | $10,000 |
| ST ANN'S INDIAN MISSION | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $10,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND | $10,000 |
| HEART OF THE TURTLE MOUNTAIN FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| BELCOURT YOUTH ACTIVITES PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| BYRON DORGAN YOUTH WELLNESS CENTER | $10,000 |
| CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TURTLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MIGIZI COMMUNICATIONS | $5,000 |
| WAKAN TIPI AWANYANKAPI | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| DREAM OF WILD HEALTH | $5,000 |
| TWIN CITIES RISE | $5,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS ASSISTANCE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–26, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against -85% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call). Read against FY2025, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND8× · 2019–2026 · $139k · revenue +71%
- DODIVISION OF INDIAN WORK8× · 2019–2026 · $85k · revenue +148%
- CHCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION8× · 2019–2026 · $80k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- LSLake Street Councilone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -85%
- AIALL INDIGENOUS RECRUITING ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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.
Our mission is to strengthen indigenous leadership and cultural identity.
Services provided include education, community development, youth programs, employment assistance, information dissemination, health and wellness programs, elder services, and child welfare.
To promote, advocate, and create economic prosperity on behalf of American Indian businesses, organizations, professionals, and tribal enterprises in a global market.
To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…
Little priest tribal college is established as an educational institution by the winnebago tribe of nebraska to fulfill the goal of its namesake, chief little priest, "be strong and educate my children".
We are a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. We are dedicated to our mission of protecting & revitalizing Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of their traditional knowledge & practices on their ancestral…
Naah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in the Northwest region of Turtle Island. Our mission is to catalyze the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities through participatory grantmaking, capacity building, and…
To improve the quality of life for all turtle mountain bank of chippewa indians (tmbci) tribal members through culturally-competant, custom-fit research.
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
The Native Wellness Institute provides wellness and healing related training and technical assistance to Indian tribes and organizations that is based in Native culture that keeps the teachings of our ancestors alive.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Byron Dorgan Youth Wellness Center ↗
- Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK ↗
- Who funds CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
- Who funds MIGIZI Communications Inc ↗
- Who funds Dream of Wild Health ↗
- Who funds LOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TM MIKINAAK ODE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
- Who funds TURTLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Minnesota Humanities Center · Mortenson Family Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Northwest Area Foundation · Manitou Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Common Counsel Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles P & Mary E Belgarde Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles P & Mary E Belgarde Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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