· Private foundation
Harold & Dorothy Madson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $243k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way Cass Clay | $25,000 |
| Village Family Service | $25,000 |
| YWCA Cass Clay | $25,000 |
| Salvation Army Fargo | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Open Door Mission | $15,000 |
| DLCCC Inc | $15,000 |
| Groves Academy | $12,000 |
| Intercongregation Communities Association Inc | $11,000 |
| Salvation Army Omaha | $10,000 |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Mentor Me | $10,000 |
| Petaluma People Services | $10,000 |
| NDSU Foundation | $10,000 |
| COTS | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $474k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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 +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 91% 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
- YCYWCA CASS CLAY6× · 2020–2025 · $132k · revenue +47%
- NDNorth Dakota State University Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $130k · revenue +48%
- PPPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NDone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -100%
- HOHospice of Red River Valleyone grant, 2024 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $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.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Engaging the community to end hunger
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
Lss housing will support the continued vitality of north dakota communities by providing housing and housing-related services.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
To assist individuals and families meet their basic needs by providing resources in a healthy and caring environment. through these actions we build hope and support self-sufficiency.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Cass Clay and the most unlike its peers is Layla Julien Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 31. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 59 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 FRASER LTD ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds United Way of Cass-Clay ↗
- Who funds PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINOT ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND ↗
- Who funds USPIREND ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MENTOR ME ↗
- Who funds BECKER COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DLCCC INC ↗
- Who funds NoticeAbility Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Barry Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Sanford Group Return · The Minneapolis Foundation · Brandt Family Foundation · Dakota Medical Charities · United Way of Cass-Clay
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 Harold & Dorothy Madson Foundation 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.
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.