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North Dakota · Public charity

Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

$23M
Granted FY2018
5
Itemized grants FY2018
5
Organizations funded FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$322k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$72,660
Largest grant, FY2018
$143,552
States reached, FY2018
4
Total assets, FY2018
$20M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feeding Texas$143,55221%
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas$72,66021%
Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc$72,66020%
Presbyterian Church USA$27,3469n/a
The Dacotah Foundation$6,24790%

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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.

North Dakota Communit…Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Midcontinent Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustFargo-Moorhead Area F…The Barry FoundationUnited Way of Cass-Cl…Impact FoundationDakota Medical Founda…Feeding AmericaLand O'Lakes Foundati…Sanford Group Return
North Dakota Community FoundationND74.9× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Dakota Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · The Barry Foundation · United Way of Cass-Clay · Impact Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Feeding America · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Sanford Group Return

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.

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About Great Plains Food Bank

How much does Great Plains Food Bank give?
Great Plains Food Bank reported 5 itemized grants totaling $322,465, out of $23,471,085 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does Great Plains Food Bank fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).
Who are Great Plains Food Bank's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Feeding Texas ($144k), The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas ($73k), Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc ($73k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Great Plains Food Bank?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Dakota Community Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, Midcontinent Foundation.
Where is Great Plains Food Bank based?
Great Plains Food Bank is based in ND.

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 5 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $25M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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