How much does Dakota Medical Charities give?

Dakota Medical Charities reported 32 itemized grants totaling $3,724,487, out of $3,959,933 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Dakota Medical Charities fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (82%), Philanthropy (7%), Education (5%).

Who are Dakota Medical Charities's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: UND Alumni Association and Foundation ($453k), YWCA Cass Clay ($183k), Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc ($137k).

Does Dakota Medical Charities fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Dakota Medical Charities?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dakota Medical Foundation, Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation, The Barry Foundation.

Where is Dakota Medical Charities based?

Dakota Medical Charities is based in ND.

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North Dakota · Public charity

Dakota Medical Charities

With the aim to positively impact health in our region, Dakota Medical Foundation hosts a family of programs and education initiatives. We lead initiatives to create a region of the healthiest people, build the fundraising success of charities, and invest in new ideas that create widespread health improvement.We further invest our…

$4.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 32
Itemized grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 40%
First-time grantees FY2024

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90% of Dakota Medical Charities’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Dakota Medical Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 30 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2025: $3.7M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $3,356,174
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 20; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $89M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Dakota Medical Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsReligionYouth 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	30	$358k	37%
FY2024	20	$291k	40%
FY2023	17	$290k	47%
FY2022	17	$254k	53%
FY2021	10	$213k	60%
FY2020	5	$91k	40%
FY2019	6	$109k	17%
FY2018	10	$200k	20%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$10MPhilanthropy$922kEducation$616kHousing & Shelter$212kHuman Services$178kCommunity Improvement$73kFood & Nutrition$73kReligion$39kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
UND Alumni Association and Foundation	$452,650	9	0%
YWCA Cass Clay	$183,300	9	1%
Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc	$136,700	4	4%
Lakes and Prairies Community Action Partnership Inc	$110,050	2	1%
South East Education Cooperative (SEEC)	$97,690	2	n/a
Churches United	$77,900	7	0%
Innovis Health LLC	$63,291	1	0%
Haley's Hope Inc	$52,040	3	3%
Emerging Prairie	$51,500	5	1%
Firstlink	$50,000	1	5%

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All grantees of Dakota Medical Charities by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
UND Alumni Association and Foundation	$452,650	9	0%
YWCA Cass Clay	$183,300	9	1%
Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc	$136,700	4	4%
Lakes and Prairies Community Action Partnership Inc	$110,050	2	1%
South East Education Cooperative (SEEC)	$97,690	2	n/a
Churches United	$77,900	7	0%
Innovis Health LLC	$63,291	1	0%
Haley's Hope Inc	$52,040	3	3%
Emerging Prairie	$51,500	5	1%
Firstlink	$50,000	1	5%
Saint Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home Inc	$44,500	4	1%
Lend A Hand Up Inc	$43,000	4	2%
City of Fargo	$38,600	2	n/a
TNT Kid's Fitness	$36,000	4	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Red River Valley Inc	$35,250	5	1%
North Dakota State University Foundation	$35,000	2	0%
Peace Officer Jail Chaplains Association	$32,100	2	5%
Valley Christian Counseling & Wellness	$30,500	3	1%
Oak Grove Lutheran High School	$29,500	3	n/a
Red River Childrens Advocacy Center	$29,500	2	3%
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency	$25,000	1	0%
BIO Girls Inc	$25,000	1	2%
North Dakota Dental Foundation	$25,000	2	2%
Essentia Health Foundation	$24,500	3	0%
Riverview Healthcare Foundation	$23,000	2	3%
Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley	$22,500	2	3%
Dakota Family Services	$21,579	1	1%
North Dakota State University	$20,038	1	n/a
North Dakota Safety Council	$20,000	2	0%
Golden Drive Homeless Kids LLC	$20,000	1	8%
Brave the Shave	$20,000	1	6%
Community Violence Intervention Center	$20,000	2	0%
Gigis Playhouse Inc	$19,000	2	n/a
Fraser Ltd	$16,313	2	0%
North Dakota Assistive	$15,000	1	n/a
Lutheran Social Services of Nd	$13,500	2	0%
West Fargo Public Schools Agency	$12,500	1	n/a
Family Wellness LLC	$11,700	2	0%
Hero Healthcare Equipment Recycling Organization	$11,500	2	1%
The Great North Pole	$11,250	2	1%
Anne Carlsen Center	$10,750	2	0%
Peace Academy Inc	$10,500	1	0%
Mountain Plains Youth Works	$10,500	1	n/a
The Perry Center Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Fargo Park District Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Northern Cass Community Health & Wellness Center	$10,000	1	1%
ND Association of Counties	$10,000	1	0%
Farm Rescue	$10,000	1	0%
Amistad Worldwide	$9,000	1	2%
Great Plains Food Bank	$9,000	1	0%
Great Rides Inc	$9,000	1	n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck	$8,500	1	n/a
FM Raise Your Spirits Inc	$8,000	1	12%
Landon's Light Foundation	$7,750	1	n/a
NDSU Research & Technology Park	$7,500	1	0%
Furniture Mission of the Red River Valley	$7,500	1	1%
Kamp Kace	$7,350	1	n/a
Heartview Foundation	$7,250	1	0%
Share House Foundation	$7,100	1	4%
Sanford Research North Formerly Known as Neuropsychiatric Research Institute	$7,080	1	0%
St Gerard's Community of Care	$7,000	1	0%
Jpii Catholic Schools	$6,000	1	n/a
Park Christian School Inc	$6,000	1	n/a
North Dakota Autism Center Inc	$6,000	1	n/a
Matthews Voice Project	$6,000	1	n/a
Immigrant Development Center	$5,500	1	1%
Historical & Cultural Society of Clay County	$5,500	1	n/a
Excellerate	$5,250	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dakota Medical Charities supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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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.

Dakota Medical FoundationND84.5× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dakota Medical Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · The Barry Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Impact Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Cass-Clay · Offutt Family Foundation · North Dakota Community 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.

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About Dakota Medical Charities

How much does Dakota Medical Charities give?: Dakota Medical Charities reported 32 itemized grants totaling $3,724,487, out of $3,959,933 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dakota Medical Charities fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (82%), Philanthropy (7%), Education (5%).
Who are Dakota Medical Charities's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: UND Alumni Association and Foundation ($453k), YWCA Cass Clay ($183k), Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc ($137k).
Does Dakota Medical Charities fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dakota Medical Charities?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dakota Medical Foundation, Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation, The Barry Foundation.
Where is Dakota Medical Charities based?: Dakota Medical Charities is based in ND.