· Public charity
Dakota Medical Foundation
With the aim to positively impact health in our region, Dakota Medical Foundation hosts a family of programs and education initiatives.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $189k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $486k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $354k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lend A Hand Up | $475,657 |
| North Dakota Dental Foundation | $449,812 |
| Peace Academy Inc | $358,392 |
| Cullen Children's Foundation | $124,605 |
| Optometric Foundation of North Dakota | $75,146 |
| HIA Health | $54,170 |
| Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center | $50,465 |
| American Lung Association ND Chapter | $50,000 |
| Trinity Lutheran Church of Moorhead | $45,000 |
| Churches United for the Homeless | $35,030 |
| New Life Center | $31,811 |
| Fargo Moorhead Area Foundation | $29,093 |
| YWCA Cass Clay | $27,659 |
| Women's Care Center | $26,235 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $26,135 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Dakota Medical Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in ND; by stated purpose, 74%.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
95 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NDNORTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +125% · 85% of their budget
- LALend A Hand Up Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +139% · 54% of their budget
- CCCULLEN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $671k · revenue +67% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- BABLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +40%- WPWashburn Public School District #4one grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
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.
Children's mental health
It is the mission of the Odd Fellows Home to be a "Place Where Somebody Cares." This has been the motto off Odd Fellows Home since the 1925 dedication. The Odd Fellows Home's mission is to provide a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere as…
Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.
To get people with addiction and their loved ones well.
Easter Seals Goodwill ND, Inc. is a leading organization in supporting children, adults, and families to have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.
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…
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
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…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Prairie Public Broadcasting provides quality radio, television, and public media services that educate, involve, and inspire the people of the prairie region.
How this is measured
124 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. 124 of the 158 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 NORTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lend A Hand Up Inc ↗
- Who funds Impact Foundation ↗
- Who funds CULLEN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds OPTOMETRIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UND Alumni Association and Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRADY OBERG LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fargo Union Mission ↗
- Who funds Saint Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED ↗
- Who funds FRASER LTD ↗
- Who funds St Gerard's Community of Care ↗
- Who funds Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TNT Kid's Fitness ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEACE OFFICER JAIL CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds YMCA of the Northern Sky ↗
- Who funds HERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Red River Valley ↗
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: Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · The Barry Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Dakota Medical Charities · Sanford Group Return · Impact Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · United Way of Cass-Clay · Otto Bremer Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dakota Medical Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dakota Medical Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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