· Public charity
Knights of Columbus Council 1883
Serve the local catholic community
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $1,703,856 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,165,737 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $461,881 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $557k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WC YOUTH SPORTS | $150,144 |
| ST JAMES BASILICA | $141,242 |
| GIVING A FUTURE FOUNDATION LLC | $133,041 |
| STJOHN'S ACADEMY | $121,196 |
| FACE FOUNDATION | $116,341 |
| DIOCESE OF FARGO | $115,000 |
| STUTSMAN COUNTY ND | $107,668 |
| JAMESTOWN PARKS AND REC | $96,984 |
| ANNE CARLSEN CENTER | $90,120 |
| JAMESTOWN FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION INC | $49,000 |
| JAMESTOWN PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $48,020 |
| JAMESTOWN RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $42,518 |
| NORTH DAKOTA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC | $42,000 |
| EL ZAGAL MYSTICS | $29,282 |
| EDDY FUNERAL HOME | $21,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 17% of Knights of Columbus Council 1883’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, 97% of the giving stays in ND; read by stated purpose it is 80% — 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 +39% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k 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
- F(FACE (FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION6× · 2018–2024 · $287k · revenue +78% · 37% of their budget
- JPJAMESTOWN PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $271k · revenue +98%
- JRJAMESTOWN RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT7× · 2018–2024 · $249k · revenue +100% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $23k
- DWDON WILHELMSone grant, 2021 · $21k
- MSMONTPELIER SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
To provide a safe, fun, educational, and engaging experience for all through a nd pioneer-era lens
Provide fire and rescue services for the town of jamestown
To benefit jamestown community college in carrying out its educational, scientific, capital and cultural programs.
To promote and provide entertainment for the local area in central north dakota.
To promote civic, economic, & social growth
To collect, preserve and share the heritage of jamestown ri
Mission is to engage, enrich and inspire our community through extraordinary arts and educational experiences.
To improve and protect the water quality in the james river watershed and table rock lake.
As a non-profit, multi-service facility, northwest arena is committed to enriching our community through year-round events and activities that connect, engage, and transform.jamestown center city development corporation is a new york…
Babe ruth baseball league
Operation of a youth hockey club that exposes the youth of our community to hockey and develops their skills.
Fund and operate a senior center
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown Fine Arts Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is S a F E Shelter. 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 40 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 97 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 FACE (FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION REGION VI ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds JAMESRIVER FIGURE SKATING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds University of Jamestown ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN SOCCER FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds James River Senior Citizens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Future Pheasants Inc ↗
- Who funds Jamestown Regional Medical Center Foundation 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: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · Jamestown Tourism · Cliff and Charlotte L Bellon Fdn · North Dakota Community Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Knights of Columbus Council 1883 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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