· Private foundation
Helen Gough Fdn Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $132k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $74,000 |
| NUETA HIDATSA SAHNISH COLLEGE | $57,541 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | $32,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARY | $22,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $20,000 |
| HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| BISMARCK STATE COLLEGE | $16,000 |
| AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $10,000 |
| MCPHERSON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF JAMESTOWN | $10,000 |
| MID-AMERICA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UTUNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $407k · revenue +39%
- UOUniversity of Mary7× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +36%
- SBSITTING BULL COLLEGE6× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- UTUNIVERSITY TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $18k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +37%
- FLFORT LEWIS COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 99 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds SITTING BULL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NDSCS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen Gough Fdn Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Gough Fdn Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Norwich University: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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