· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARRISON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORP | $107,075 |
| Individual grant recipient | $61,134 |
| Individual grant recipient | $39,006 |
| NORTH DAKOTA PARKS & RECREATION | $30,630 |
| NORTH DAKOTA FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM | $29,944 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,541 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GARRISON RURAL FIRE DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| DICKENS VILLAGE FESTIVAL | $18,895 |
| ND GOVERNORS WALLEYE CUP | $10,150 |
| GARRISON ALL SCHOOL REUNION | $10,000 |
| RIVERDALE AMBULANCE SERVICE | $10,000 |
| GARRISON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $6,340 |
| GARRISON AREA RESOURCE CENTER | $6,000 |
| GARRISON HEATING & AIR LLC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2021–2025 · $189k
- GCGARRISON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT CORP2× · 2024–2025 · $178k
- NDNORTH DAKOTA FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM7× · 2017–2025 · $144k
Funded once
- STSTONES THROW ROADHOUSEone grant, 2018 · $40k
- FFORESOMEone grant, 2023 · $30k
- BLBETTER LIVING FOR GARRISON INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -25% · 31% of their budget
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.
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.
The Garretson Volunteer Fire Department serves the City of Garretson and surrounding communities in Eastern South Dakota. The Department is made up completely of volunteer fireman and is responsible for roughly 100 square miles within its…
Gathering location for the community and the senior citizens of waubay south dakota
To promote the bowdon community and it's assets.
Ambulance service for the rural community.
To provide emergency services to minnewaukan, brinsmade, and all residents/non-residents residing or passing through the minnewakan rural fire protection district. these services include: fire control & suppression, assisting ems, search &…
To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
To preserve and promote the healthcare needs of the people and citizenry of the "rosebud area" which is generally that area within a 50 mile radius of the city of gregory, south dakota and particulary to insure that the rural healthcare…
Charitable organization - food shelf
Info & advocacy for rural health in nd
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DICKENS VILLAGE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SAKAKAWEA AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BETTER LIVING FOR GARRISON INC ↗
- Who funds GARRISON AREA RESOURCE CENTER & FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE AMBULANCE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BENEDICTINE LIVING COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ND GOVERNORS WALLEYE CUP ↗
- Who funds WEST RIVER TRANSIT ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Garrison Area Improvement Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garrison Area Improvement Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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