· Public charity
Ichf Foundation
To promote healthy and sustainable communities by providing financial gifts, strengthening collaborative relationships and supporting local initiatives that impact the mental, physical and spiritual well-being of residents in the counties of bottineau, burke, mchenry, mclean, mountrail, pierce, renville, rolette, sheridan, ward and wells.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of ICHF FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $280,273 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $651,885 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $371,612 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF GRACE FOOD PANTRY | $51,203 |
| MINOT COMMISSION ON AGING | $27,500 |
| THE LORD'S CUPBOARD - MINOT | $22,782 |
| SALVATION ARMY FOOD PANTRY | $22,573 |
| FIRST DISTRICT HEALTH UNIT | $17,325 |
| SOURIS BASIN TRANSPORTATION | $15,000 |
| MINOT AREA HOMELESS COALITION | $14,000 |
| MINOT STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,450 |
| THE VILLAGE FAMILY SERVICE CENTER | $12,000 |
| METIGOSHE MINISTRIES | $10,750 |
| VELVA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $10,120 |
| NEXUS -PATH FAMILY HEALING | $10,000 |
| MOUNTRAIL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $9,150 |
| FIRSTLINK | $7,000 |
| LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY - MSU | $6,220 |
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 (FY17–25, $348k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 77% of Ichf Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in ND; read by stated purpose it is 25% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 33 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; $25k 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
- ICINSPIRITUS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $729k · revenue +72% · 49% of their budget
- VFVillage Family Service Center9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +4%
- MCMINOT COMMISSION ON AGING INC8× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SCSTANLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $23k
- RRROLETTE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT #2one grant, 2021 · $21k
- RCRolette Community Care Centerone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -18%
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 mission of Hatton Prairie Village is to provide a welcoming, friendly and spirit-filled home to loved ones who need long term or short term care; excellent care and services by compassionate and highly-skilled employees who treat…
Serve as a local access to a full range of health care services. continue as a leader in primary care for the whole family, in care of the elderly, and in emergency services. Function as a focal point for health education and wellness.
St. Luke's Home and its assisted living facility, Park Avenue Villa, exist to provide a continuum of quality care to God's people, creating a compassionate, comfortable, and family oriented atmosphere, striving to enhance the dignity and…
To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
To share God's love in word and in deed by providing shelter to older persons and others in need, believing that "In Christ's Love, Everyone is Someone".
St. Anne's Guest Home, a Catholic Health Care Facility, embraces residents of all faiths, genders, and races in creating an environment of living the gospel message through providing services, regardless of financial status, to maintain…
Operating an integrated community health system providing access to health care for the uninsured low income residents of three counties in Missouri
Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.
We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.
Northland community health center is committed to providing access to affordable and quality health services.
To provide nursing care and related services to the aged and handicapped in winona, mn and the surrounding area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society and the most unlike its peers is Velva Community Food Pantry. 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 48 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 96 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 INSPIRITUS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗
- Who funds MINOT COMMISSION ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BEE ↗
- Who funds SOURIS BASIN TRANSPORTATION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds KENMARE WHEELS & MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELCOME TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds MINOT AREA HOMELESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN PLAINS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds St Aloisius Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds SOURIS VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SENIOR MEALS AND SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPANIONS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Turtle Lake Community Hospital Association ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA HOPE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Rolette Community Care Center ↗
- Who funds MINOT AREA MEN'S WINTER REFUGE ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE GRIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINOT ↗
- Who funds Ward County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds NEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's Hospital ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
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: Inspiritus Community Health Foundation · Minot Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Souris Valley United Way · Minot Junior Golf Association Inc · Great Plains Food Bank · Arthur & Edith Pearson Foundation · Impact Foundation · Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation
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 Ichf 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.
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