· Public charity
Greater Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureau
To promote tourism and solicit conventions, tournaments and trade shows to the greater grand forks area.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of GREATER GRAND FORKS CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $90,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $184,672 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $94,172 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALERUS CENTER | $20,000 |
| GREATER GRAND FORKS SERTOMA CLUB | $17,000 |
| GRAND FORKS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $16,500 |
| GRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $12,500 |
| FIRST | $10,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL BULL RIDERS LLC | $7,500 |
| GRAND FORKS FASTBREAK CLUB | $7,000 |
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 9%. 87% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GFGRAND FORKS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +73%
- GFGRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIA6× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +53%
- FIFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology7× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- RARE ARENA INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- NLNORTHERN LIGHTS FIGURE SKATING CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +237%
- GFGRAND FORKS YOUTH HOCKEYone grant, 2018 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide support services for Youth Football Activities in the Great Grand Forks region
Promote economic growth in grand forks, north dakota and the surrounding communities through the attraction of new industries and expansion of current businesses.
To promote tourism and solicit conventions, tournaments and trade shows to the greater grand forks area.
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.
To promote, build, educate, and help entrepreneurial, startup, and creative communities in grand forks, north dakota and the surrounding region
The purpose for which this association is organized is to foster, encourage and promote the development of the soccer skills of players living in central north dakota under the age of 20.
To provide opportunities for youth aged 6-19 to learn the sport of hockey and to develop their skills to the next level of play.
Promote social welfare of area residents by providing a county fair.
Fargo Post 2 Baseball Club has been established to give players an opportunity to play the game of baseball. Giving 45 plus young men a chance to play competitive baseball in Fargo, ND.
The Corporation's mission is to promote, develop and administer a youth hockey program.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Forks Youth Hockey Association and the most unlike its peers is Red River Bmx. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 GRAND FORKS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIA ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS MARATHON INC ↗
- Who funds Public Arts Commission ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS FASTBREAK CLUB ↗
- Who funds TOWN SQUARE FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds Red River BMX ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS FIGURE SKATING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA LEAGUE OF CITIES ↗
- Who funds GREATER GF SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS AREA YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UND Center for Innovation Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPACE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF DEFENSE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
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: Altru Health System · Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Region · Grand Forks Blue Line Club Inc · Myra Foundation · 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 Greater Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureau 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.
- National Space Grant Foundation — 3% of income from government
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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