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Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation

The GREATER FARGO MOORHEAD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (gfmedc) is a catalyst for economic growth and prosperity.

$15k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Community Improvement$263kEmployment$62kEducation$26kArts & Culture$24kPhilanthropy$15kScience & Tech$15k
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CASS-CLAY$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CONCORDIA COLLEGE: $14k → 11%MN DEPT OF EMPLOY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 14%TS STARTUPS LLC: $3k → 12%NORTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: $15k → 10%EMERGING PRAIRIE: $98k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $10k → 13%MSTATE: $15k → 11%NORTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%NDSU RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY PARK INC: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $10k → 13%MSTATE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI: $10k → 11%NORTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%EMERGING PRAIRIE: $10k → 12%EMERGING PRAIRIE: $8k → 12%NDSU RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY PARK INC: $5k → 12%FM AREA FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%FOLKWAYS: $12k → 12%FOLKWAYS: $12k → 12%UNITED WAY OF CASS-CLAY: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$257k · 7 repeat orgs$133k 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
5

Total granted

$257k
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+126%

Still filing today

71%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
Community ImprovementScience & TechEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EP
    EMERGING PRAIRIE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $116k · revenue +63%
  • UW
    United Way of Cass-Clay
    3× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +4%
  • MS
    M STATE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHAMBER FARGO MOORHEAD WEST FARGOgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +126%
  • N
    NDSCS
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • CC
    CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +1%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
2
Und Center for Innovation Foundation

To maintain national leadership in entrepreneur outreach and education, and become the leader in tech entrepreneurship in rural America.

Community Improvement
3
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
4
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
5
Und Alumni Association and Foundation

Engage alumni, friends, and partners in building an extraordinary University of North Dakota.

Education
6
Northern State University Foundation

The Northern State University Foundation is dedicated to securing the future of Northern State University. Its purpose is to solicit and administer funds and to pursue other activities to advance this goal.

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7
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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8
Dakota County Technical College Foundation

The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.

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9
Bismarck State College Foundation

Engage in those activities which support and assist in the development and advancement of Bismarck State College.

Education
10
Valley City State University Foundation

Valley City State University Foundation aids in the advancement of Valley City State University by awarding scholarships and by promoting the University. Support comes primarily from contributions by individuals and businesses, fundraising…

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11
Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation

The greater fargo moorhead economic development corporation (gfmedc) is a catalyst for economic growth and prosperity. using a comprehensive approach to economic development, the gfmedc accelerates job and wealth creation in cass county,…

Community Improvement
12
Northland Foundation

The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation; 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 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. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMERGING PRAIRIE: $115,500 · Community ImprovementEMERGING PRAIRIETHE CHAMBER FARGO MOORHEAD WEST FARGO: $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CHAMBER FARGO MOORHEAD WEST FARGOUnited Way of Cass-Clay: $45,000 · OtherUnited Way of Cass-ClayM STATE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI: $25,000 · OtherM STATE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNIFOLKWAYS: $24,000 · OtherFOLKWAYSUniversity of North Dakota-College of Business & Public Admin: $20,000 · OtherUniversity of North Dakota-College of Bus…NDSCS: $15,000 · OtherNDSCSCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $13,500 · OtherCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION+2 more: $4,601 · OtherFARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyNDSU Research & Technology Park: $15,000 · Science & TechNDSCS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Education
Community Improvement$215,500Other$147,101Philanthropy$15,000Science & Tech$15,000Education$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEMERGING PRAIRIE: $115,500 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetTHE CHAMBER FARGO MOORHEAD WEST FARGO: $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetUnited Way of Cass-Clay: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNDSU Research & Technology Park: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNDSCS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

West Central Initiati…American Online Givin…
West Central InitiativeMN15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: West Central Initiative · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 13 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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