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Dakota Medical Charities

With the aim to positively impact health in our region, Dakota Medical Charities hosts a family of programs and education initiatives.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

84% of Dakota Medical Charities’s FY2024 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. FY2024 names 20 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

21
’17
10
’18
6
’19
5
’20
10
’21
17
’22
17
’23
20
’24

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

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$10MPhilanthropy$922kEducation$616kHousing & Shelter$212kHuman Services$178kCommunity Improvement$73kFood & Nutrition$73kReligion$39kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $1,863,370 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,115,060 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $251,690 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $156k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$11,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dakota Medical Foundation$1,483,620
Impact Foundation$88,500
UND Alumni Association & Foundation$67,000
Hospice of the Red River Valley$23,000
YWCA Cass Clay$21,500
Golden Drive Homeless Kids LLC$20,000
Brave the Shave$20,000
Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc$18,000
Churches United for the Homeless$15,250
Oak Grove Lutheran School$12,000
Saint Gianna's Home Inc$11,500
Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley$11,000
Emerging Prairie$10,500
Northern Cass Community Health & Wellness Center$10,000
Community Violence Intervention Center Inc$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $349k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 10%LAKES & PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION: $75k → 11%Saint Gianna's Maternity Home: $12k → 11%Haley's Hope Inc: $40k → 12%LAKES & PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION: $35k → 11%Saint Gianna's Home Inc: $12k → 11%Saint Gianna's Home Inc: $9k → 11%The Perry Center Inc: $10k → 12%Matthew's Voice Project: $6k → 12%North Dakota Autism Center Inc: $6k → 12%The Great North Pole: $6k → 12%Haley's Hope Inc: $6k → 12%The Great North Pole: $6k → 12%Community Violence Intervention Center Inc: $10k → 13%Community Violence Intervention Center Inc: $10k → 13%Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley: $11k → 12%FirstLINK: $50k → 12%Fraser Ltd: $11k → 12%SENDCAA: $25k → 12%Family Wellness Center: $6k → 12%FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER: $6k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 24 repeat orgs$467k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
25

Total granted

$1.4M
$381k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+23%

Still filing today

83%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementReligionOther

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

  • UA
    UND Alumni Association and Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $398k · revenue +2%
  • YC
    YWCA CASS CLAY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $159k · revenue +95%
  • LA
    LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $110k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • IH
    INNOVIS HEALTH LLCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $63k · revenue +52%
  • F
    FIRSTLINKgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +128%
  • BG
    BIO Girls Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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2
Winona Health Foundation

The mission of the Winona Health Foundation is to gather, steward, and distribute resources needed to support and advance the mission of Winona Health and its affiliates.

Health
3
North Dakota News Cooperative
Arts & Culture
4
Northeastern Mental Health Center

Northeastern Mental Health Center-Our Mission is your vision for health, wellness and recovery.

Health
5
Northland Health Care Access

Operating an integrated community health system providing access to health care for the uninsured low income residents of three counties in Missouri

Health
6
Face It Together - Bismarck-Mandan

To get people with addiction and their loved ones well.

Human Services
7
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
8
Northwood Deaconess Health Center

Serve as a local access to a full range of health care services. continue as a leader in primary care for the whole family, in care of the elderly, and in emergency services. Function as a focal point for health education and wellness.

Health
9
St Luke's Home

St. Luke's Home and its assisted living facility, Park Avenue Villa, exist to provide a continuum of quality care to God's people, creating a compassionate, comfortable, and family oriented atmosphere, striving to enhance the dignity and…

Human Services
10
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
11
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
12
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency and the most unlike its peers is Saint Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home 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 19 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%18%5–10yr16%31%10–20yr13%18%20–35yr18%18%35–55yr20%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr16%3%10–20yr13%87%20–35yr18%5%35–55yr20%3%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
10%
127/1,268

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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 59 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Dakota Medical Foundation — $9,624,421 · HealthDakota Medical Foundation+12 more — $340,000 · HealthImpact Foundation — $942,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUND Alumni Association and Foundation — $397,650 · EducationNorth Dakota State University Foundation — $35,000 · Education+2 more — $20,500 · EducationLAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $110,050 · Human ServicesFIRSTLINK — $50,000 · Human ServicesHALEY'S HOPE INC — $45,690 · Human ServicesSaint Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home Inc — $32,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $25,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY WELLNESS LLC — $11,700 · Human Services+6 more — $54,750 · Human ServicesSouth East Education Cooperative (SEEC) — $97,690 · OtherCITY OF FARGO — $38,600 · OtherOAK GROVE LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL — $21,000 · OtherNorth Dakota State University — $20,038 · OtherGOLDEN DRIVE HOMELESS KIDS LLC — $20,000 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC — $19,000 · OtherTNT Kid's Fitness — $36,000 · OtherEMERGING PRAIRIE — $40,500 · OtherBIO Girls Inc — $25,000 · OtherNORTH DAKOTA SAFETY COUNCIL — $20,000 · Other+14 more — $128,250 · OtherYWCA CASS CLAY — $159,300 · Housing & ShelterCHURCHES UNITED — $62,350 · ReligionPEACE OFFICER JAIL CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION — $32,100 · Religion
Health$9,964,421Philanthropy$952,000Education$453,150Human Services$349,190Other$466,078Housing & Shelter$159,300Religion$94,450

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDakota Medical Foundation — $9,624,421 over 8y, 32% of budgetImpact Foundation — $942,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetUND Alumni Association and Foundation — $397,650 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA CASS CLAY — $159,300 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetLAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $110,050 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSoul Solutions Recovery Center Inc — $105,700 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetINNOVIS HEALTH LLC — $63,291 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED — $62,350 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFIRSTLINK — $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHALEY'S HOPE INC — $45,690 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetEMERGING PRAIRIE — $40,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTNT Kid's Fitness — $36,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE OFFICER JAIL CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION — $32,100 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSaint Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home Inc — $32,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLend A Hand Up Inc — $29,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC — $28,250 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBIO Girls Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING & WELLNESS — $24,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDAKOTA FAMILY SERVICES — $21,579 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRAVE THE SHAVE — $20,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetGOLDEN DRIVE HOMELESS KIDS LLC — $20,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA SAFETY COUNCIL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRed River Childrens Advocacy Center — $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $14,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND — $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERVIEW HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILY WELLNESS LLC — $11,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Great North Pole — $11,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMemory Cafe of the Red River Valley — $11,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFRASER LTD — $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE PERRY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNorthern Cass Community Health & Wellness Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFargo Park District Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetND Association of Counties — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFM Raise Your Spirits Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNDSU Research & Technology Park — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetShare House Foundation — $7,100 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSANFORD RESEARCH NORTH FORMERLY KNOWN AS NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $7,080 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Gerard's Community of Care — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIMMIGRANT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetANNE CARLSEN CENTER — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Dakota Medical Founda…Fargo-Moorhead Area F…The Barry FoundationBlue Cross Blue Shiel…Sanford Group ReturnAlex Stern Family Fou…Midcontinent Foundati…Impact FoundationOtto Bremer TrustUnited Way of Cass-Cl…Offutt Family Foundat…North Dakota Communit…
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

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 Dakota Medical Charities 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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