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Greater Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureau

To promote tourism and solicit conventions, tournaments and trade shows to the greater grand forks area.

$185k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Recreation & Sports$304kArts & Culture$183kHealth$121kCommunity Improvement$101kYouth Development$48kEducation$46kScience & Tech$34kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $90,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $184,672 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $94,172 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$813k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%USA BMX: $10k → 11%TOWN SQUARE FARMERS MARKET: $7k → 10%NORTHERN LIGHTS FIGURE SKATING CLUB: $17k → 11%PROFESSIONAL BULL RIDERS LLC: $8k → 15%NORTHERN LIGHTS YOUTH SERVICES INC: $8k → 9%ND LEAGUE OF CITIES: $6k → 10%NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF DANCE & DRILL: $8k → 12%UND COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & MINES: $9k → 13%FIRST ROBOTICS: $10k → 7%TOWN SQUARE FARMERS MARKET: $6k → 10%FORKSFIRST PRESENTS LLC: $10k → 11%NORTH DAKOTA LEAGUE OF CITIES: $6k → 10%NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF DANCE AND DRILL: $8k → 12%ALERUS CENTER: $20k → 13%FIRST: $10k → 7%TOWN SQUARE FARMERS MARKET: $6k → 10%NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF DANCE & DRILL: $8k → 12%GRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $13k → 13%FIRST ROBOTICS: $10k → 7%TOWN SQUARE FARMERS MARKET: $6k → 10%GRAND FORKS AREA YOUTH BASEBALL: $9k → 13%FIRST: $10k → 7%GRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $8k → 13%FIRST: $10k → 7%GRAND FORKS FASTBREAK CLUB: $8k → 13%FIRST: $10k → 7%GRAND FORKS FASTBREAK CLUB: $8k → 13%FIRST ROBOTICS: $8k → 7%FENWORKS ESPORTS: $8k → 13%GRAND FORKS FASTBREAK CLUB: $7k → 13%GRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $6k → 13%GRAND FORKS FASTBREAK CLUB: $6k → 13%GRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOC: $30k → 13%THE RALPH ENGELSTAD ARENA: $25k → 13%HB PRESENTS LLC: $22k → 13%GRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOC: $20k → 13%GRAND FORKS MARATHON INC: $18k → 13%GRAND FORKS MARATHON INC: $16k → 13%HB PRESENTS LLC: $15k → 13%GRAND FORKS MARATHON INC: $14k → 13%THIRD STREET EVENTS: $12k → 13%HB PRESENTS LLC: $12k → 13%HB PRESENTS LLC: $12k → 13%DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $11k → 13%GRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOC: $9k → 13%NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF DANCE AND DRILL: $8k → 13%GRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOC: $7k → 13%LEIGHTON MEDIA: $10k → 13%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$700k · 15 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$700k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+13%

Still filing today

67%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentScience & 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

  • GF
    GRAND FORKS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +73%
  • GF
    GRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIA
    6× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +53%
  • FI
    For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
    7× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • RA
    RE ARENA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • NL
    NORTHERN LIGHTS FIGURE SKATING CLUB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +237%
  • GF
    GRAND FORKS YOUTH HOCKEY
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
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
Greater Grand Forks Youth Football Association

To provide support services for Youth Football Activities in the Great Grand Forks region

Recreation & Sports
2
Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation

Promote economic growth in grand forks, north dakota and the surrounding communities through the attraction of new industries and expansion of current businesses.

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3
Greater Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureau

To promote tourism and solicit conventions, tournaments and trade shows to the greater grand forks area.

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4
Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce

The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.

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5
Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce

The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.

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6
Evolve Nd

To promote, build, educate, and help entrepreneurial, startup, and creative communities in grand forks, north dakota and the surrounding region

Community Improvement
7
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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8
Dakota United Soccer Club

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.

Recreation & Sports
9
North Dakota Amateur Hockey Association

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.

Recreation & Sports
10
Greater Grand Forks Fair & Exhibition Association Inc

Promote social welfare of area residents by providing a county fair.

Recreation & Sports
11
Fargo Post 2 Baseball Club

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.

Youth Development
12
Fargo Youth Hockey Association

The Corporation's mission is to promote, develop and administer a youth hockey program.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Forks Youth Hockey Association; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 34 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER GRAND FORKS SERTOMA CLUB: $121,000 · OtherGREATER GRAND FORKS SERTOMA CLUBHB PRESENTS LLC: $66,000 · OtherHB PRESENTS LLCGRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $37,800 · OtherGRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTNORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF DANCE AND DRILL: $30,000 · OtherNORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF DANCE AND DRILLCITY OF GRAND FORKS: $20,000 · Other+13 more: $121,750 · Other+13 moreGRAND FORKS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $91,000 · Recreation & SportsGRAND FORKS YOUTH…Red River BMX: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsRed River BMXNORTHERN LIGHTS FIGURE SKATING CLUB INC: $16,500 · Recreation & SportsNORTHERN LIGHTS F…GRAND FORKS AREA YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsGRAND FORKS AREA …GRAND FORKS MARATHON INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureGRAND FORKS MAR…Public Arts Commission: $37,500 · Arts & CulturePublic Arts Com…TOWN SQUARE FARMERS MARKET: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTOWN SQUARE FAR…EMPIRE ARTS CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIA: $82,500 · Community ImprovementGRAND FORKS…UND Center for Innovation Foundation: $6,000 · Community ImprovementUND Center …For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $68,000 · Science & TechFor Inspi…NATIONAL SPACE GRANT FOUNDATION: $5,600 · Science & TechNATIONAL …GRAND FORKS FASTBREAK CLUB: $34,500 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHERN LIGHTS YOUTH SERVICES INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentRE ARENA INC: $25,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF DEFENSE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$396,550Recreation & Sports$136,000Arts & Culture$120,000Community Improvement$88,500Science & Tech$73,600Youth Development$42,000Education$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRAND FORKS YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $91,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetGRAND FORKS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIA: $82,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $68,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Arts Commission: $37,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetGRAND FORKS FASTBREAK CLUB: $34,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetRed River BMX: $20,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA LEAGUE OF CITIES: $12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER GF SOCCER CLUB: $11,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGRAND FORKS AREA YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS YOUTH SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUND Center for Innovation Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMPIRE ARTS CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF DEFENSE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Altru Health SystemCommunity Foundation …Grand Forks Blue Line…Myra FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Altru Health SystemND17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureau funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureau. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • National Space Grant Foundation: 3% of 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to Greater Grand Forks Convention & Visitors Bureau through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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