Skip to content
Fargo Family Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Fargo Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$116k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$282kReligion$270kHealth$200kMembership Benefit$101kHousing & Shelter$75kArts & Culture$52kHuman Services$46kAnimals$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRENCHTOWN METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
PREVENTION RESOURCES$10,000
FRENCHTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MILFORD$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,496
UPPER TINICUM CEMETERY ASSOC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
UNION FIRE CO$5,000
FRENCHTOWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$5,000
HOLLAND TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
MILFORD HOLLAND RESCUE$5,000
RIVER UNION STAGE$5,000
DELAWARE VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
UPPER BLACK EDDY FIRE CO$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $15k → 11%SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $10k → 11%SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $9k → 11%SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $6k → 11%SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 30 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
7

Total granted

$1.2M
$13k

Still filing today

40%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterAnimalsHealthMembership BenefitHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PR
    Prevention Resources Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +71%
  • DV
    DELAWARE VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +23%
  • FAMILY PROMISE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +483%

Funded once

  • PP
    POINT PLEASANCE FIRE COMPANY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • MB
    MILFORD BOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Delran Emergency Squad

Emergency Squad

Health
2
Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer firefighting

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Penryn Fire Company 1 Inc

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Duncannon Fire Company No 1 Inc

Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services

—
5
Pattenburg Rescue Squad

To provide emergency rescue service to residents and travelers in the pattenburg new jersey area.

Health
6
Point Township Fire Company

The protection and preservation of life and property by providing quality fire, rescue and emergency medical services to our community.

—
7
First Aid & Rescue Squad Inc of Somerville Nj

To provide emergency care to the residents of somerville, nj.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Pequea Valley Fire Department

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Ohio County Rescue Services Inc

24 hour rescue services

—
10
Quakertown Volunteer Fire Co No 1

Fire fighting services

Public Safety & Disaster
11
High Point Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer Fire Company

—
12
Upper Saucon Vol Fire Dept No 1

Fire & Rescue Company

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palisades Regional Fire Rescue; the most unlike its peers is Special Ops Survivors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRENCHTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $211,500 · OtherFRENCHTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHPrevention Resources Inc: $110,000 · OtherPrevention Resources IncUPPER BLACK EDDY FIRE CO: $109,500 · OtherUPPER BLACK EDDY FIRE COIndividual grant recipient: $61,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $53,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherUPPER TINICUM CEMETARY ASSOC: $34,500 · OtherFRENCHTOWN METHODIST CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherHOUSING AND ACCESSIBILITY REHAB PROGRAM (HAR): $29,200 · Other+23 more: $183,057 · Other+23 moreDELAWARE VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $98,000 · Public Safety & DisasterDELAWARE VALL…POINT PLEASANT FIRE COMPANY #1: $32,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPOINT PLEASAN…PALISADES REGIONAL FIRE RESCUE: $22,800 · Public Safety & DisasterPALISADES REG…FRENCHTOWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $76,000 · Membership BenefitSPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $45,600 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE INC: $45,300 · Housing & ShelterANIMAL LIFELINE: $29,000 · AnimalsCAT TALES INC: $2,000 · AnimalsHUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $17,800 · HealthMILFORD HOLLAND RESCUE SQUAD: $11,000 · Health
Other$861,757Public Safety & Disaster$152,800Membership Benefit$76,000Human Services$45,600Housing & Shelter$45,300Animals$31,000Health$28,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPrevention Resources Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $98,000 over 9y, 18% of budgetFRENCHTOWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $76,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetSPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $45,600 over 5y, 15% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $45,300 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPOINT PLEASANT FIRE COMPANY #1: $32,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetANIMAL LIFELINE: $29,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetPALISADES REGIONAL FIRE RESCUE: $22,800 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTINICUM CONSERVANCY: $19,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $17,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMILFORD HOLLAND RESCUE SQUAD: $11,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOne Voice of Hunterdon Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCAT TALES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budget
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 Prevention Resources Inc ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds FRENCHTOWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds POINT PLEASANT FIRE COMPANY #1 ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL LIFELINE ↗
  • Who funds PALISADES REGIONAL FIRE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds TINICUM CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILFORD HOLLAND RESCUE SQUAD ↗
  • Who funds One Voice of Hunterdon Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAT TALES INC ↗

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fargo Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fargo Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 63%
  • One Voice of Hunterdon Inc: 97% of income from government
  • Prevention Resources Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fargo Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fargo Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 42 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Fargo Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home