· Community foundation
Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation
We help donors maximize their philanthropy to create a vibrant community full of opportunities for everyone.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 178 grants below total $5,612,828 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,488,670 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,875,842 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 $10k47 grants · $326k
- $10k–50k109 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAK GROVE LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $900,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY DBA HIA HOSPICE | $255,819 |
| GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| UMD NEWMAN CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY | $250,000 |
| FARGO MOORHEAD COMMUNITY THEATRE | $181,297 |
| WORLD VISION INC | $150,000 |
| DETROIT LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL | $135,000 |
| CHURCHES UNITED FOR THE HOMELESS | $129,267 |
| KINDRED YOUTH BASEBALL | $125,000 |
| NDSU FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DAZEY FIRE DEPARTMENT | $100,000 |
| MEMORY CAFE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY | $93,845 |
| CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $74,089 |
| DETROIT LAKES COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER | $68,000 |
| DETROIT LAKES HIGH SCHOOL-ISD #22 | $65,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
228 repeat relationships — 131 still active in FY2024, 97 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $729k 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
- TRTHEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +85%
- ACANNE CARLSEN CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +30%
- FSFARGO-MOORHEAD SCIENCE MUSEUM3× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +310% · 76% of their budget
Funded once
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue +49%- TRTheodore Roosevelt Medora Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +76%
- CDCATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $129k
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.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Pizza Masters Park Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 31. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
278 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. 278 of the 418 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARGO-MOORHEAD SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Red River Valley ↗
- Who funds KINDRED YOUTH BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN PRAIRIE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Cass County North Dakota Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THETA CHI FRATERNITY PHI CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED ↗
- Who funds United Way of Cass-Clay ↗
- Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTH ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds DLCCC INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds FM Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds FARGO-MOORHEAD ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley ↗
- Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation ↗
- Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Valley Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
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 · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Impact Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · United Way of Cass-Clay · Offutt Family Foundation · Dakota Medical Charities · Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust
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 Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation 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.