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Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$663k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Recreation & Sports$733kHuman Services$286kPhilanthropy$160kReligion$153kHealth$150kHousing & Shelter$105kYouth Development$88kEducation$78kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $396k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FARGO PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION$225,000
FARGO MEMORIAL HONOR GUARD$40,000
ANNE CARLSEN CENTER$25,000
FARM RESCUE FOUNDATION$20,000
LEGACY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$20,000
DEAR NICU MAMA$20,000
PEACE ACADEMY$20,000
FARGO POST 400 BASEBALL FMBA$20,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA$15,000
HOPE INC$15,000
NORTH DAKOTA AUTISM CENTER INC$15,000
NEW LIFE CENTER$13,000
OPEN DOORS 65$12,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYKVRR$10,000
MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS: $5k → 11%NORTH DAKOTA AUTISM CENTER INC: $15k → 12%NORTH DAKOTA AUTISM CENTER: $10k → 12%DEAR NICU MAMA: $20k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO MOORHEAD: $13k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGOMOORHE: $13k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGOMOORHE: $13k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGOMOORHE: $13k → 12%FIRSTLINK: $10k → 12%OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%YOUTHWORKS: $10k → 12%OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%YMCA OF CASS AND CLAY COUNTIES: $3k → 12%DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH: $6k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 36 repeat orgs$404k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
30

Total granted

$1.6M
$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+2%

Still filing today

61%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • FM
    FARGO MEMORIAL HONOR GUARD
    4× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +238% · 59% of their budget
  • JP
    JEREMIAH PROGRAM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +120%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO- MOORHEAD
    4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF DETROIT LAKES
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • KY
    KINDRED YOUTH BASEBALL
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -59%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ITASCA STATE PARK
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
2
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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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
Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation

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

Philanthropy
5
North Dakota Federation of Families for Childrens Mental Health

Children's mental health

Health
6
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
7
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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8
Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota (Ragom) Inc

Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…

Animals
9
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia

To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.

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10
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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11
Fargo Youth Hockey Association

The Corporation's mission is to promote, develop and administer a youth hockey program.

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12
Minnesota Family Council

Minnesota family council (mfc) is a non-profit christian organization that is dedicated to strengthening minnesota families by advancing biblical principles in the public arena, for the glory of the lord jesus christ and the good of…

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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 National Audubon Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr13%16%5–10yr16%24%10–20yr13%18%20–35yr18%22%35–55yr20%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr13%60%5–10yr16%13%10–20yr13%14%20–35yr18%8%35–55yr20%5%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
10%
127/1,278

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 85 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
27/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Fargo Park District Foundation — $600,000 · Recreation & SportsFargo Park District FoundationAmerican Gold Gymnastics — $22,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW LIFE CENTER — $58,000 · OtherNEW LIFE CENTERLake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity — $40,000 · OtherOPEN DOORS 65 — $37,500 · Other+59 more — $642,000 · Other+59 moreFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO- MOORHEAD — $50,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…THE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE OUTDO…North Dakota Autism Center Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesNorth Dak…DEAR NICU MAMA — $20,000 · Human ServicesDEAR NICU…DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH — $11,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTA BO…FIRSTLINK — $10,000 · Human ServicesFIRSTLINKMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS — $10,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN …+2 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesFARGO MEMORIAL HONOR GUARD — $160,000 · PhilanthropyFARGO MEM…JEREMIAH PROGRAM — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterYWCA CASS CLAY — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterPRESENTATION PARTNERS IN HOUSING — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterANNE CARLSEN CENTER — $50,000 · EducationPEACE ACADEMY INC — $20,000 · EducationHERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION — $34,000 · HealthShare House Foundation — $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC — $5,000 · HealthLAKELAND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $3,000 · Health
Recreation & Sports$642,500Other$777,500Human Services$168,500Philanthropy$160,000Housing & Shelter$97,500Education$70,000Health$52,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFargo Park District Foundation — $600,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetFARGO MEMORIAL HONOR GUARD — $160,000 over 4y, 59% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO- MOORHEAD — $50,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetANNE CARLSEN CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity — $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetYWCA CASS CLAY — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHERO HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT RECYCLING ORGANIZATION — $34,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMind Shift — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNorth Dakota Autism Center Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Gold Gymnastics — $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRiver Keepers — $22,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPEACE OFFICER JAIL CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetDEAR NICU MAMA — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPEACE ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFARM RESCUE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLEGACY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetKINDRED YOUTH BASEBALL — $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN HOME — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetDAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFM Rotary Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetVillage Family Service Center — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRSTLINK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLANDON'S LIGHT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAL PRESENCE RADIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetShare House Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEMERGING PRAIRIE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARGO-MOORHEAD ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFargo Metro Baseball Association — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVETERAN HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAKELAND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARGO AREA SPORTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA of the Northern Sky — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFargo Theatre Management Corporation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - DAKOTA HORIZONS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fargo-Moorhead Area F…Blue Cross Blue Shiel…The Barry FoundationAlex Stern Family Fou…Sanford Group ReturnDakota Medical Founda…Midcontinent Foundati…Impact FoundationOffutt Family Foundat…Otto Bremer TrustDakota Medical Charit…United Way of Cass-Cl…
Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation CorporationND64.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Dakota Medical Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Impact Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Dakota Medical Charities · United Way of Cass-Clay

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 Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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