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Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation

We help donors maximize their philanthropy to create a vibrant community full of opportunities for everyone.

$7.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
178
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$16MHealth$4.2MHuman Services$4.1MAnimals$3.8MArts & Culture$3.5MHousing & Shelter$3.2MReligion$2.5MFood & Nutrition$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 178 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 178 grants below total $5,612,828, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,488,670 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,875,842 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$13,533
Median grant
15
States reached
$127M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DAZEY FIRE DEPARTMENT$100,000
NDSU FOUNDATION$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
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST GIANNAS MATERNITY HOME INC: $20k → 11%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $40k → 13%LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF INCORPORATED: $12k → 14%DETROIT LAKES COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER: $68k → 10%DETROIT LAKES COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER: $66k → 10%DETROIT LAKES COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER: $59k → 10%DETROIT LAKES COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER: $50k → 10%DETROIT LAKES COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER: $41k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PHOENIX: $50k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PHOENIX: $50k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PHOENIX: $25k → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PHOENIX: $25k → 11%HALEY'S HOPE: $16k → 12%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF PHOENIX: $15k → 11%LAKES & PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $14k → 11%CAPLP LAKES & PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $12k → 11%RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS CENTER OF FARGO-MOORHEAD: $37k → 12%AFRICAN SOUL AMERICAN HEART: $29k → 12%RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS CENTER: $26k → 12%AFRICAN SOUL AMERICAN HEART: $22k → 12%AFRICAN SOUL AMERICAN HEART: $20k → 12%RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS CENTER: $19k → 12%RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS CENTER: $17k → 12%RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS CENTER: $11k → 12%HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $210k → 12%HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $210k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-FM: $41k → 12%FRASER LTD: $27k → 12%HEART-N-SOUL COMMUNITY CAFE: $27k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-FM: $25k → 12%FRASER LTD: $25k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-FM: $21k → 12%FRASER LTD: $20k → 12%FRASER LTD: $20k → 12%FRASER LTD: $19k → 12%HEART-N-SOUL COMMUNITY CAFE INC: $18k → 12%HEART-N-SOUL COMMUNITY CAFE INC: $17k → 12%NEXUS PATH FAMILY HEALING: $17k → 12%YOUTHWORKS: $17k → 12%YOUTHWORKS: $15k → 12%NEXUS PATH FAMILY HEALING: $14k → 12%HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $14k → 12%YOUTHWORKS: $14k → 12%HAVEN: $12k → 12%FM COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $15k → 12%HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY DBA HIA HOSPICE: $256k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO MOORHEAD: $24k → 12%DAKOTA BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $17k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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OR
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IA
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CA
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NE
MO
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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 228 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

228
136

Total granted

$40M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+14%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $729k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TR
    THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +85%
  • AC
    ANNE CARLSEN CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +30%
  • FS
    FARGO-MOORHEAD SCIENCE MUSEUM
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +310% · 76% of their budget

Funded once

  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue +49%
  • TR
    Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +76%
  • CD
    CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $129k
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
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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2
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
3
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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4
Northland Foundation

The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.

Philanthropy
5
Fargo Park District Foundation

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…

Recreation & Sports
6
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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7
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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8
North Dakota News Cooperative
Arts & Culture
9
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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10
Community Shares of Minnesota

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;…

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11
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
12
Lutheran Social Services Housing Inc

Lss housing will support the continued vitality of north dakota communities by providing housing and housing-related services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Dakota; 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.
04the grantee network

278 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. 278 of the 418 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
83
Early backer (in before they grew)
263/278
Grantees still filing
189/278
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARY - BISMARCK: $2,655,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARY - BISMARCKTHE CAPSTONE ACADEMY: $2,500,000 · OtherTHE CAPSTONE ACADEMYOAK GROVE LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL: $925,000 · Other+117 more: $12,792,949 · Other+117 moreTHEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,106,000 · EducationTHEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL…ANNE CARLSEN CENTER: $4,214,702 · EducationANNE CARLSEN CENTERNorth Dakota State University Foundation: $954,173 · EducationNorth Dakota State University F…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · Education+12 more: $801,918 · Education+12 moreGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,300,000 · AnimalsGRAYSON-J…Arizona Humane Society: $335,000 · AnimalsArizona H…NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $207,502 · AnimalsNEVADA HU…RED RIVER ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $175,265 · AnimalsOld Friends Inc: $150,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE LAKES: $141,305 · AnimalsHOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $131,623 · Animals+4 more: $235,801 · Animals+4 moreHospice of the Red River Valley: $710,395 · Human ServicesDLCCC INC: $284,000 · Human ServicesMemory Cafe of the Red River Valley: $248,573 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $165,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH: $157,513 · Human ServicesRape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead: $139,565 · Human ServicesFRASER LTD: $128,676 · Human ServicesHope Blooms: $117,497 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO- MOORHEAD: $111,630 · Human ServicesAfrican Soul American Heart: $87,264 · Human Services+9 more: $441,439 · Human ServicesFARGO-MOORHEAD SCIENCE MUSEUM: $1,066,793 · Arts & CultureCass County North Dakota Historical Society: $532,178 · Arts & CultureFARGO-MOORHEAD ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $251,163 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $326,119 · Arts & CultureSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTH: $371,385 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $185,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $160,000 · HealthDakota Medical Foundation: $149,820 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $101,870 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $100,250 · HealthUROLOGY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $90,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC: $88,798 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $78,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $77,990 · HealthVALLEY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING & WELLNESS: $65,000 · Health+5 more: $211,447 · HealthKINDRED YOUTH BASEBALL: $625,000 · Recreation & SportsDETROIT MOUNTAIN RECREATION AREA INC: $117,206 · Recreation & SportsMOORHEAD YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsMINNESOTA FLYERS GYMNASTICS INC: $36,000 · Recreation & SportsDETROIT COUNTRY CLUB: $30,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $27,711 · Recreation & Sports
Other$18,872,949Education$11,676,793Animals$3,676,496Human Services$2,591,552Arts & Culture$2,176,253Health$1,904,560Recreation & Sports$875,917

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,106,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetANNE CARLSEN CENTER: $4,214,702 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,300,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetFARGO-MOORHEAD SCIENCE MUSEUM: $1,066,793 over 3y, 76% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation: $954,173 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of the Red River Valley: $710,395 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKINDRED YOUTH BASEBALL: $625,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN PRAIRIE PERFORMING ARTS: $553,915 over 6y, 11% of budgetCass County North Dakota Historical Society: $532,178 over 8y, 40% of budgetTHETA CHI FRATERNITY PHI CHAPTER: $465,149 over 7y, 42% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED: $404,813 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetUnited Way of Cass-Clay: $382,670 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTH: $371,385 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $335,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDLCCC INC: $284,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetYWCA CASS CLAY: $263,603 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFM Rotary Foundation: $257,650 over 2y, 59% of budgetFARGO-MOORHEAD ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $251,163 over 7y, 10% of budgetMemory Cafe of the Red River Valley: $248,573 over 5y, 21% of budgetVillage Family Service Center: $231,463 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $211,265 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $207,502 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $200,002 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC: $200,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetValley Senior Services Inc: $190,877 over 2y, 64% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRED RIVER ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $175,265 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $165,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $160,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH: $157,513 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Friends Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DETROIT LAKES: $150,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetDakota Medical Foundation: $149,820 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFargo Union Mission: $145,125 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE LAKES: $141,305 over 7y, 10% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead: $139,565 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCASS CLAY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $133,479 over 4y, 100% of budgetDOWN HOME: $131,963 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetHOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $131,623 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetFRASER LTD: $128,676 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENS CARE CENTER: $120,000 over 2y, 4.6% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Barry FoundationBlue Cross Blue Shiel…Dakota Medical Founda…Alex Stern Family Fou…Midcontinent Foundati…Sanford Group ReturnImpact FoundationNorth Dakota Communit…United Way of Cass-Cl…Offutt Family Foundat…Dakota Medical Charit…Fred M Hector Jr Char…
The Barry FoundationND175.2× affinity91 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 418 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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