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· Public charity
GREATER FARGO MOORHEAD ECONOMIC
To grow & diversify the economies of cass county nd and clay county mn.
$15k
Granted FY2020
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Grants
1
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0164% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Community Improvement$216kPhilanthropy$15kScience & Tech$15kEducation$12kOther$147k
02FY2020 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNITED WAY OF CASS-CLAY$15,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$257k · 7 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
6
Total granted
$257k
$148k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+18%
+126%
Still filing today
71%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyScience & TechEducationOther
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
- EPEMERGING PRAIRIE3× · 2017–2019 · $116k · revenue +63%
- UWUNITED WAY OF CASS-CLAY3× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +4%
- MFMSTATE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHAMBERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +126%
- FAFM AREA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +233%
- NDNORTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE OF SCIENCEone grant, 2018 · $15k
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
North Dakota State University Foundation
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support NDSU.
Education
2
Und Alumni Association and Foundation
Support UND students, faculty, alumni & community by providing resources for growth & development
Education
3
Und Center for Innovation Foundation
To maintain national leadership in entrepreneur outreach & education.
Community Improvement
4
North Dakota Soybean Growers Association
The NDSGA advocates for soybean growers at the legislature in Bismarck, through alliance and coalitions. It provides member services while working to recruit and retain members.
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5
North Dakota University System Foundation
The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.
Philanthropy
6
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and
Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper
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7
Bismarck State College Foundation
Engage in those activities which support the development of Bismarck State College.
Education
8
Minnesota State College Southeast
To assist the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers and communities within our service area.
Education
9
Great Plains Food Bank
The Great Plains Food Bank is North Dakota's largest hunger-relief organization with a mission to end hunger through community partnerships. Our vision is a hunger-free North Dakota and western Minnesota. Both our mission and vision are…
Food & Nutrition
10
Minot State University Development
To establish, promote and stimulate voluntary financial support for the benefit of minot state university, especially in building of endowment and in addressing the long-term priorities of the university.
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11
North Dakota Association of Rural
Helping member cooperatives enrich the lives of their members and communities.
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12
Dakota State University Foundation
To raise funds and manage private funding for the benefit of dakota state university.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ndscs Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$215,500Other$147,101Philanthropy$15,000Science & Tech$15,000Education$12,000
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.
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.
West Central InitiativeMN15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: West Central Initiative · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation · Sanford Group Return · 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 organisation GREATER FARGO MOORHEAD ECONOMIC 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EMERGING PRAIRIE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +63% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 810742137 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on EMERGING PRAIRIE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic?
Find your warmest path to Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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