Minnesota · Private foundation
Helen Gough Fdn Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $450k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $74,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Helen Gough Fdn Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $450k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $436k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $432k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $310k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $270k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $215k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $198k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $149k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Tribes Technical College | $406,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College | $180,941 | 7 | n/a |
| Minot State University | $133,101 | 8 | n/a |
| University of Mary | $89,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Sitting Bull College | $35,600 | 6 | 0% |
| McPherson College | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sinte Gleska College Center Inc | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Grand Canyon University | $23,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Concordia University Texas | $23,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Ndscs Foundation | $21,100 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen Gough Fdn Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · North Dakota Community Foundation · American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc · American Indian College Fund · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Theodore R and Vivian M Johnson Scholarship Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · North Dakota Tribal College System · Theodore H Sedler Scholarship Fund · The Eagle Foundation
How this is measured
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About Helen Gough Fdn Trust
- How much does Helen Gough Fdn Trust give?
- Helen Gough Fdn Trust reported 31 grants totaling $449,541 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Helen Gough Fdn Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (98%), Health (1%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
- Who are Helen Gough Fdn Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Tribes Technical College ($407k), Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College ($181k), Minot State University ($133k).
- Does Helen Gough Fdn Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen Gough Fdn Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen Gough Fdn Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ascendium Education Solutions Inc, North Dakota Community Foundation, American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc.
- Where is Helen Gough Fdn Trust based?
- Helen Gough Fdn Trust is based in MN.
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