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Dunn County Fair Association

The primary purpose is to provide the residents of dunn county, nd with cultural and social activities through the use of the fairgrounds.

$241k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$181k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$5.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Dunn County Fair Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$181k50%
FY202310$131k60%
FY20222$31k100%
FY20214$33kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$160kHuman Services$67kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kEducation$48kArts & Culture$20kReligion$11kPublic Benefit$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Dakota Rodeo Association$80,000319%
Killdeer Saddle Club$60,00032%
Hill Top Heritage Foundation$40,00035%
Killdeer Public School Dist$36,7623n/a
Southwest Art Gallery and Science Center$20,00022%
South Heart Senior Citizens Club Star Route$19,7252n/a
North Dakota Peace Officers Association$12,0001n/a
West Dunn Fire District$11,5621n/a
Dsu Heritage Foundation$11,00010%
St Johns Lutheran Church$10,7331n/a
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All grantees of Dunn County Fair Association by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Dakota Rodeo Association$80,000319%
Killdeer Saddle Club$60,00032%
Hill Top Heritage Foundation$40,00035%
Killdeer Public School Dist$36,7623n/a
Southwest Art Gallery and Science Center$20,00022%
South Heart Senior Citizens Club Star Route$19,7252n/a
North Dakota Peace Officers Association$12,0001n/a
West Dunn Fire District$11,5621n/a
Dsu Heritage Foundation$11,00010%
St Johns Lutheran Church$10,7331n/a
Dickinson Baseball Club Inc$10,00015%
South Heart Fire District$10,0001n/a
Lee Bucking Stock$10,0001n/a
Dickinson Wrestling Club Inc$10,00017%
Killdeer Area Ambulance Service$10,0001n/a
Halliday Rural Fire District$10,0001n/a
Stark County Council on Aging$7,00010%
Medora Fire Department$6,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dunn County Fair Association supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Dakota Rodeo Association: $80,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetKilldeer Saddle Club: $60,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHill Top Heritage Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetSouthwest Art Gallery and Science Center: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDsu Heritage Foundation: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDickinson Baseball Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDickinson Wrestling Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetStark County Council on Aging: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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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 8.

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 FoundationND15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Dakota Community Foundation · Fraternal Order of Eagles

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 Dunn County Fair Association

How much does Dunn County Fair Association give?
Dunn County Fair Association reported 12 itemized grants totaling $180,537, out of $240,917 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Dunn County Fair Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (43%), Human Services (18%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%).
Who are Dunn County Fair Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: North Dakota Rodeo Association ($80k), Killdeer Saddle Club ($60k), Hill Top Heritage Foundation ($40k).
Does Dunn County Fair Association fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dunn County Fair Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Dakota Community Foundation, Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Where is Dunn County Fair Association based?
Dunn County Fair Association is based in ND.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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