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Childs Hope Learning Center

Aid for special needs children

$453k
Granted FY2023
19
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$132k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $264k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTER SEALS GOODWILL ND INC$132,000
BISMARCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$132,000
DAKOTA CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$12,000
LIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$12,000
TR 4 HEART SOUL INC$12,000
CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS$12,000
DESIGNER GENES OF ND INC$12,000
LETS DANCE PARENTS BOOSTER CLUB$12,000
UP21 FOUNDATION$12,000
KEEPING THE PROMISE$12,000
WEST RIVER TRANSIT$12,000
MYSTIC ATHLETIC CLUB$12,000
FIT 4 VICTORY$12,000
MISSOURI VALLEY YMCA$12,000
PERRY KARLGAARD FOUNDATION$12,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISSOURI VALLEY YMCA: $12k → 10%WEST RIVER TRANSIT: $12k → 10%DAKOTA CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $12k → 10%TR 4 HEART SOUL INC: $12k → 10%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 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
Bison Wrestling Club

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.

Recreation & Sports
2
Mandan Horse and Saddle Club

To promote the sport of rodeo

Recreation & Sports
3
Dakota Wrestling Club

To promote the sport of wrestling to area youth.

Recreation & Sports
4
Dakota Vipers Hockey

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.

Recreation & Sports
5
Badlands Gymnastics Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
6
Mandan Touchdown Club Inc

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

Recreation & Sports
7
Bismarck Mandan Civic Chorus

The bismarck-mandan civic chorus was founded in 1977, to promote quality choral music in the community and throughout central north dakota.

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8
Bismarck Mandan Lacrosse Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
9
Dakota West Arts Council Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Nebraska Dressage Association

Clinicsshowscompetitionmeetingawards

Recreation & Sports
11
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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12
Dickinson Wrestling Club Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bismarck Public Schools Foundation; 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.
03the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Easter Seals Goodwill ND Inc: $132,000 · HealthEaster Seals Goodwill ND IncUP21 FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthUP21 FOUNDATIONBISMARCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $132,000 · EducationBISMARCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONMystic Athletic Club: $12,000 · EducationMystic Athletic ClubFIT 4 VICTORY: $12,000 · OtherFIT 4 VICTORYLIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $12,000 · OtherLIGHT OF CHRIST …PERRY KARLGAARD FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherPERRY KARLGAARD …KEEPING THE PROMISE: $12,000 · OtherKEEPING THE PROM…LETS DANCE PARENTS BOOSTER CLUB: $12,000 · OtherLETS DANCE PAREN…SECOND CHANCES VOLUNTEERS: $7,200 · OtherSECOND CHANCES V…WEST RIVER TRANSIT: $12,000 · Human ServicesWEST RIVER TRA…Designer Genes of North Dakota Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesDesigner Genes…DAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $12,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTA CHILDRE…TR 4 Heart & Soul Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesTR 4 Heart & S…Missouri Valley Family YMCA: $12,000 · Human ServicesMissouri Valle…CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsCAPITAL VOLLEYBALL CLUB: $9,500 · Recreation & SportsDEMONATION WRESTLING FOUNDATION: $9,500 · Recreation & SportsTRIPLE H MINIATURE HORSE RESCUE: $7,200 · Animals
Health$144,000Education$144,000Other$67,200Human Services$60,000Recreation & Sports$31,000Animals$7,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEaster Seals Goodwill ND Inc: $132,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBISMARCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $132,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMystic Athletic Club: $12,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetWEST RIVER TRANSIT: $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDesigner Genes of North Dakota Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetDAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUP21 FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTR 4 Heart & Soul Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS: $12,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetMissouri Valley Family YMCA: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL VOLLEYBALL CLUB: $9,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTRIPLE H MINIATURE HORSE RESCUE: $7,200 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

North Dakota Community FoundationND19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Dakota Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Childs Hope Learning Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Childs Hope Learning Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Childs Hope Learning Center?

    Find your warmest path to Childs Hope Learning Center 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 19 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $23k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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