How much does Impact Foundation give?

Impact Foundation reported 30 itemized grants totaling $1,407,733, out of $1,596,017 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Impact Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Human Services (13%), Education (9%).

Who are Impact Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fargo Prairie Heights Community Church of the Nazarene ($1.5M), Casselton Parks and Recreation ($397k), Living Word Lutheran Church ($320k).

Does Impact Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Impact Foundation based?

Impact Foundation is based in ND.

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North Dakota · Public charity

Impact Foundation

With a mission to build the capacity of nonprofits, businesses, and individuals to maximize their community impact, Impact Foundation's overall goal is to dramatically improve its nonprofit partners' capacity to produce superior results. Impact Foundation operates exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes. To meet…

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 30
Itemized grants FY2024: 20
Organizations funded FY2023: 35%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $11,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $750,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 42; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $9.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Impact Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionReligionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	28	$1.4M	43%
FY2023	20	$1.3M	35%
FY2022	19	$365k	58%
FY2020	42	$635k	83%
FY2019	14	$315k	43%
FY2018	11	$306k	45%
FY2017	13	$309k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$2.0MHuman Services$624kEducation$445kRecreation & Sports$324kFood & Nutrition$297kHealth$282kPublic Safety & Disaster$163kYouth Development$142kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fargo Prairie Heights Community Church of the Nazarene	$1,500,000	2	n/a
Casselton Parks and Recreation	$397,367	7	n/a
Living Word Lutheran Church	$320,000	2	n/a
ND Department of Veterans Affairs	$305,350	6	n/a
The Great North Pole	$167,242	2	21%
Lutheran Social Services of Nd	$156,783	4	0%
Bethel University	$140,000	1	0%
North Dakota State University Foundation	$131,387	3	0%
Capstone Classical Academy	$107,910	2	4%
YWCA Cass Clay	$103,980	7	0%

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All grantees of Impact Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fargo Prairie Heights Community Church of the Nazarene	$1,500,000	2	n/a
Casselton Parks and Recreation	$397,367	7	n/a
Living Word Lutheran Church	$320,000	2	n/a
ND Department of Veterans Affairs	$305,350	6	n/a
The Great North Pole	$167,242	2	21%
Lutheran Social Services of Nd	$156,783	4	0%
Bethel University	$140,000	1	0%
North Dakota State University Foundation	$131,387	3	0%
Capstone Classical Academy	$107,910	2	4%
YWCA Cass Clay	$103,980	7	0%
Great Plains Food Bank	$80,246	5	0%
Walhalla Lutheran Church	$50,000	7	n/a
Locus Impact Investing	$50,000	2	2%
Bethel Church	$50,000	1	n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Dakota	$46,510	6	1%
Arthur W Jones Post 7564	$44,737	2	5%
West River Health Services Foundation	$33,100	3	1%
The Arts Partnership of the Red Rive	$30,770	2	4%
Churches United	$30,000	2	0%
Fargo Union Mission	$28,000	2	1%
The Salvation Army	$27,250	1	n/a
F5 Project	$26,000	3	1%
Amistad Worldwide	$24,250	2	3%
City Of Cando	$22,950	4	n/a
Furniture Mission of the Red River Valley	$22,165	1	n/a
Emerging Prairie	$20,000	1	1%
Hospice of the Red River Valley	$19,300	3	0%
South East Education Cooperative	$19,000	1	n/a
Towner County Medical Center Inc	$18,350	2	0%
North Dakota State University	$18,185	1	n/a
City of Cando	$18,000	2	n/a
Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation	$18,000	1	0%
Gateway to Science Center Inc	$17,100	2	1%
Emergency Food Pantry Inc	$17,000	1	3%
Landon's Light Foundation	$16,300	2	2%
Fargo Park District Foundation	$16,000	2	0%
Firstlink	$15,000	1	1%
Fargo Memorial Honor Guard	$15,000	1	5%
Milwaukee Rescue Mission	$15,000	1	n/a
Feed My Starving Children Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Wellspring for the World Inc	$15,000	2	4%
FM Youth Hockey	$15,000	1	n/a
Grand Forks Foundation for Education Inc	$15,000	2	1%
Mountain Plains Youth Works	$15,000	1	0%
Village Family Service Center	$15,000	1	0%
4 Luv of Dog Rescue	$14,080	2	2%
Prison Fellowship Ministries	$13,500	1	0%
City of Fargo	$13,000	1	n/a
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church	$12,500	1	n/a
North Dakota FFA Foundation Incorporated	$12,000	2	1%
Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley	$11,500	1	3%
Higher Power Automotive Ministries Inc	$11,500	1	1%
Water Works Sea Inc	$10,754	1	32%
Fargo-Moorhead Orchestral Association	$10,500	1	2%
Heavens Helpers	$10,000	1	1%
Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Fargo VA Health Care System	$10,000	1	n/a
Legacy Children's Foundation	$10,000	2	2%
Rural Enrichment and Counseling	$10,000	1	2%
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc	$10,000	1	0%
YMCA of the Northern Sky	$10,000	1	0%
Mount Olive Lutheran Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Lutheran Public Radio Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Handi-Wheels Transportation Inc	$10,000	1	7%
Moorhead Schools Legacy Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Nv Tech Centercavalier School	$10,000	1	n/a
BIO Girls Inc	$9,800	1	1%
Jamestown Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc	$9,500	1	1%
Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead	$9,000	1	0%
Cass County Government	$8,500	1	n/a
Dakota Center for Independent Living Inc	$8,000	1	1%
St Anns Church	$8,000	1	n/a
Redemption Road Ministries	$8,000	1	3%
Riverview Healthcare Foundation	$8,000	1	3%
Ccri Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Fraser Ltd	$8,000	1	0%
Missouri Slope Areawide United Way	$8,000	1	0%
Red River Childrens Advocacy Center	$7,500	1	1%
Homeward Animal Shelter Inc	$7,250	1	1%
The Welcome Table Inc	$7,000	1	n/a
Welcome House Inc	$7,000	1	3%
Community Violence Intervention Center	$7,000	1	0%
Madisonhome Inc	$7,000	1	n/a
Peace Officer Jail Chaplains Association	$6,030	1	2%
Global Friends Coalition	$6,000	2	1%
Catholic Charities North Dakota	$6,000	1	0%
Home on the Range	$5,500	1	n/a
Farm Rescue	$5,400	1	0%
Alpha Opportunities Inc	$5,100	1	0%

Impact Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 64.

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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.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring FoundationND88.8× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Dakota Medical Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Sanford Group Return · North Dakota Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Offutt Family Foundation · United Way of Cass-Clay · Great Plains Food Bank

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Impact Foundation

How much does Impact Foundation give?: Impact Foundation reported 30 itemized grants totaling $1,407,733, out of $1,596,017 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Impact Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Human Services (13%), Education (9%).
Who are Impact Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fargo Prairie Heights Community Church of the Nazarene ($1.5M), Casselton Parks and Recreation ($397k), Living Word Lutheran Church ($320k).
Does Impact Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Impact Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation, Dakota Medical Foundation.
Where is Impact Foundation based?: Impact Foundation is based in ND.