· Public charity
Childs Hope Learning Center
Aid for special needs children
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTER SEALS GOODWILL ND INC | $132,000 |
| BISMARCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $132,000 |
| DAKOTA CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $12,000 |
| DESIGNER GENES OF ND INC | $12,000 |
| KEEPING THE PROMISE | $12,000 |
| MYSTIC ATHLETIC CLUB | $12,000 |
| PERRY KARLGAARD FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| LIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $12,000 |
| LETS DANCE PARENTS BOOSTER CLUB | $12,000 |
| UP21 FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| MISSOURI VALLEY YMCA | $12,000 |
| TR 4 HEART SOUL INC | $12,000 |
| CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS | $12,000 |
| WEST RIVER TRANSIT | $12,000 |
| FIT 4 VICTORY | $12,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Bison wrestling club of north dakota is to promote interest in the sport of wrestling. the youth of nd to supervise, sponsor and financially assit a disciplined and competitive program of wrestling.
To promote the sport of rodeo
To promote the sport of wrestling to area youth.
The dakota vipers are a parent run organization that focuses on providing skaters with an opportunity to improve hockey skills on the ice as well as being model athletes off the ice.
Badlands Gymnastics Club's training is focused on the belief that gymnastics is not only the root of all sports, it provides a solid foundation to develop the skills that will last a lifetime. At Badlands Gymnastics, we prepare your child…
The purpose of the Mandan Touchdown Club is to operate a football program for the benefit of youth and their families so they may enjoy growth
The bismarck-mandan civic chorus was founded in 1977, to promote quality choral music in the community and throughout central north dakota.
To foster a life-long enjoyment for the game of lacrosse for youth boys and girls, residing in the Bismarck-Mandan area by promoting and developing, through participating in the sport of lacrosse, the knowledge of the rules, skills of…
We are the Arts Council for Bismarck, ND. We promote the arts, arts organizations, and arts professionals in our community. We also create unique programming for the community.
Clinicsshowscompetitionmeetingawards
To promote and encourage the sport of wrestling; to provide year round programs and facilities for wrestling; to finance wrestling camps; to develop a system to strengthen high school and college wrestling programs. to promote sociability…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bismarck Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Capital Volleyball Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 BISMARCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Goodwill ND Inc ↗
- Who funds Mystic Athletic Club ↗
- Who funds Missouri Valley Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds UP21 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST RIVER TRANSIT ↗
- Who funds TR 4 Heart & Soul Inc ↗
- Who funds Designer Genes of North Dakota Inc ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL VOLLEYBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds DEMONATION WRESTLING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIPLE H MINIATURE HORSE RESCUE ↗
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: North Dakota Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Childs Hope Learning Center 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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