· Private foundation
George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Valley City Park District | $300,000 |
| Bridges Art Council | $15,000 |
| Valley City Bares County Library | $10,000 |
| Sheyenne Valley Community Foundatio | $5,000 |
| Sheynne Valley Friends of Animals | $5,000 |
| Barnes County Historical Society | $1,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $1,000 |
| Village Family Service Center | $1,000 |
| United Nations Childrens Fund | $1,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $500 |
| CHI Health at Home Care | $100 |
| Open Door Center | $50 |
| SMP Health | $50 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
Receive and administer charitable gifts and permanent endowments primarily for the benefit of south dakotans. work with donors, charities, and community leaders to strengthen philanthropy in south dakota.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.
End hunger together.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Sheyenne Valley Friends of Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 24 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
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 VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEYENNE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sheyenne Valley Friends of Animals ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗
- Who funds KINDRED YOUTH BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds BARNES COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Open Door Center ↗
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: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Otto Bremer Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 George and Audrey Gaukler Family Foundation 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.
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