North Dakota · Public charity
Garrison Area Improvement Association
To aid, assist, encourage, & promote development & expansion of business concerns in the area by making plant or other facilities available. The organization also provides grants & loans to new & existing businesses.
- $597k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $431k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $107,075
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Garrison Area Improvement Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $431k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $360k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $176k | 79% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $104k | 78% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $123k | 90% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $34k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $16k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $49k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota Firefighters Museum | $144,428 | 7 | n/a |
| Stones Throw Roadhouse | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dickens Village Festival | $39,195 | 3 | 8% |
| Sakakawea Area Council for the Arts | $34,580 | 3 | 19% |
| Better Living for Garrison Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Garrison Area Resource Center & Food Pantry | $26,530 | 4 | 8% |
| Riverdale Ambulance Service | $26,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Camp of the Cross Ministries | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Benedictine Living Communities Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nd Governors Walleye Cup | $10,150 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota Firefighters Museum | $144,428 | 7 | n/a |
| Stones Throw Roadhouse | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dickens Village Festival | $39,195 | 3 | 8% |
| Sakakawea Area Council for the Arts | $34,580 | 3 | 19% |
| Better Living for Garrison Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Garrison Area Resource Center & Food Pantry | $26,530 | 4 | 8% |
| Riverdale Ambulance Service | $26,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Camp of the Cross Ministries | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Benedictine Living Communities Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nd Governors Walleye Cup | $10,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Riverdale High Lodge | $10,112 | 1 | n/a |
| West River Transit | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Garrison Lumber Inc | $8,435 | 1 | n/a |
| St Pauls Lutheran Church | $6,084 | 2 | n/a |
| Peace Lutheran Church | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Sakakawea Fence Strechers Inc | $5,300 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($918k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Ichf Foundation · Inspiritus Community Health Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Garrison Area Improvement Association with peer funders
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About Garrison Area Improvement Association
- How much does Garrison Area Improvement Association give?
- Garrison Area Improvement Association reported 21 itemized grants totaling $430,715, out of $596,762 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Garrison Area Improvement Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (34%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Garrison Area Improvement Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Dakota Firefighters Museum ($144k), Stones Throw Roadhouse ($40k), Dickens Village Festival ($39k).
- Does Garrison Area Improvement Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Garrison Area Improvement Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ichf Foundation, Inspiritus Community Health Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Garrison Area Improvement Association based?
- Garrison Area Improvement Association is based in ND.
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