· Private foundation
Dr Calvin K Fercho Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEND A HAND UP | $10,000 |
| THE VILLAGE FAMILY SERVIC | $10,000 |
| YMCA NORTHERN SKY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEW LIFE CENTER | $7,500 |
| FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEV FOUND | $7,500 |
| CHURCHES UNITED FOR THE HOMELESS | $7,500 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| PLAINS ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| YWCA CASS CLAY | $5,000 |
| ND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| PATRIOT ASSISTANCE DOGS | $3,000 |
| WILDERNESS RIVER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| HOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LALend A Hand Up Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +62%
- GPGreat Plains Food Bank9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +66%
- TOTHE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $17k
- PFPEO Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +60%
- DMDETROIT MOUNTAIN RECREATION AREA INCone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
The purpose of the Foundation is to pursue unique fundraising opportunities and increase private sector support to further the development, growth, and excellence of the Park District in providing modernized facilities and quality…
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Prairie Public Broadcasting provides quality radio, television, and public media services that educate, involve, and inspire the people of the prairie region.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
To train and certify service dogs for individuals with disabilities.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents, and survivors.
The Mankato Area Foundation is a trusted resource that connects donors with causes they care about, provides funding to enhance our region and serves as a collaborative community partner.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plains Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Wilderness River Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 35 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 Lend A Hand Up Inc ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 412 ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLAINS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FARGO MOORHEAD AREA YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOETZ MENTAL WELLNESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT MOUNTAIN RECREATION AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Impact Foundation ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
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: The Barry Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Otter Tail Corporation Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Dr Calvin K Fercho Family Foundation 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.