· Private foundation
Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main
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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $472k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WF EVENTS LLC | $75,000 |
| CITY OF COLUMBUS | $60,000 |
| WESTERN STAR AVIATION EDUCATION FOUND | $45,000 |
| COYOTE CLAY TARGET LEAGUE INC | $40,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY | $35,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC | $34,000 |
| ANNE CARLSEN CENTER | $32,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH OF FARGO | $30,000 |
| HARMONIC CREATIVE WORLD | $30,000 |
| CARE CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| DOWN HOME | $30,000 |
| PERRY CENTER INC | $29,490 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO-MOORHEAD | $25,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against -57% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
- WEWF Events Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +140%
- CCCOYOTE CLAY TARGET LEAGUE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $302k · revenue +55%
- VFVillage Family Service Center5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- WCWILLISTON COMMUNITY BUILDERSone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -65%
- DBDAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCHone grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue +14%
- SWSTAGE WEST COMMUNITY THEATREone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
The Mankato Area Foundation is a trusted resource that connects donors with causes they care about, provides funding to enhance our region and serves as a collaborative community partner.
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…
To promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income clients through quality legal assistance
The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.
The mission of the north dakota state fair foundation is to develop lifelong relationships with donors to secure the philanthropic gifts that will enhance and support the work of the north dakota state fair.
Amplifying the economic voice of women business owners through advocacy and access to critical resources.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
The mission of the Winona Health Foundation is to gather, steward, and distribute resources needed to support and advance the mission of Winona Health and its affiliates.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anne Carlsen Center and the most unlike its peers is Fargo Air Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 31. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 18% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 46 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 WF Events Inc ↗
- Who funds COYOTE CLAY TARGET LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CHI HEALTH CONNECT AT HOME - FARGO ↗
- Who funds WESTERN STAR AVIATION EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DOWN HOME ↗
- Who funds FARGO AIR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WILLISTON COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN FARGO- MOORHEAD ↗
- Who funds THE PERRY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MON-DAK GYMNASTICS SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds WILLISTON COMMUNITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLISTON COYOTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORSK HOSTFEST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KNOX BLOCKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARE KEY ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Red River Valley ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONIC CREATIVE WORLD ↗
- Who funds BIO Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds MONDAK HUMANE SOCIETY 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: Midcontinent Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Dakota Medical Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Otter Tail Corporation Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
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 Herman Robert E Charitable Tr Main 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.