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Mandan Baseball Club Inc

To operate baseball program for the benefit of youth and their families so they may enjoy growth through recreational and competitive baseball.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3.8M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Recreation & Sports$4.6MEducation$243kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kHealth$16kCommunity Improvement$11kYouth Development$9kPublic Benefit$5k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $4,060,553 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,158,059 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $97,506 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 $10k5 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.8M
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mandan Park District$3,821,873
Saint Joseph Church School$100,000
MPS Foundation$30,000
Mandan Touchdown Club$22,180
Mandan Tennis Center$15,000
ND Safety Council$10,000
USA Patriots Veteran Athletics$10,000
CHI Health at Home$10,000
United Tribes Technical College$10,000
Bismarck Mandan Chamber$9,000
Mandan Firefighters Association$6,500
Brave the Shave$6,000
Larks Community Fund$5,000
Operations Cigars for Warriors$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Operations Cigars for Warriors: $5k → 16%ND Safety Council: $10k → 10%Mandan Park District: $3.8M → 10%CHI Health at Home: $10k → 12%North Dakota DECA: $5k → 6%Bismarck Mandan Chamber: $9k → 10%Mandan Park District: $762k → 10%Bismarck Mandan Chamber: $6k → 10%Saint Joseph Church School: $100k → 10%United Tribes Technical College: $10k → 10%Saint Joseph Church School: $75k → 10%Brave the Shave: $6k → 10%MPS Foundation: $30k → 10%Larks Community Fund: $5k → 10%Mandan Touchdown Club: $22k → 10%Mandan Tennis Center: $15k → 10%Mandan Tennis Center: $15k → 10%Lewis and Clark PTO: $13k → 10%Mandan Firefighters Association: $7k → 10%MPS Foundation: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 4 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$4.8M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+42%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • MP
    Mandan Park District
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.6M
  • CO
    CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH MANDAN TRUSTEE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $175k
  • MP
    MANDAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue -9%

Funded once

  • MN
    MANDAN ND LEWIS AND CLARK PTO
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • DE
    DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC GROUP RETURNgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +42%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Fargo Post 2 Baseball Club

Fargo Post 2 Baseball Club has been established to give players an opportunity to play the game of baseball. Giving 45 plus young men a chance to play competitive baseball in Fargo, ND.

Youth Development
2
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
3
North Dakota Tribal College System

Advancing tribal colleges through collaboration and shared goals. ndtcs leverages the higher education experience by sharing ideas and broadening networks and alliances, toward improving students' outcomes.

Education
4
North Dakota Masonic Foundation
5
Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Nd

Veterans organization to foster camaraderie among united states veterans of overseas conflicts; to serve our veterans, the military, and our communities; to advocate on behalf of all veterans.

6
Mandan Baseball Club Inc

To operate baseball program for the benefit of youth and their families so they may enjoy growth through recreational and competitive baseball.

Youth Development
7
Tobacco Free North Dakota

To improve and protect the public health of all north dakotans by reducing the serious health and economic consequesnces of tobacco use, the state's number one cause of preventable disease and death.

8
Greater North Dakota Chamber Foundation

The purpose of the corporation is to: 1) conduct research and education on topics related to north dakota's economic growth; 2) engage in activities that promote civic engagement; and 3) conduct programs that support workforce solutions.

9
Sioux Falls Cyclones

To Support the Sport of Softball

Recreation & Sports
10
North Dakota Stockmen's Association

The nd stockmen's association is a cattle producers' trade organization. it provides member services & activities, conducts the state's brand programs, & provides legislative watchdog activities. its mission is to unite, protect, promote,…

11
North Dakota Petroleum Council Inc

The north dakota petroleum council's mission is to promote and enhance the discovery, development, production, transportation, refining, conservation, and marketing of oil and gas in north dakota, south dakota, and the rocky mountain…

Community Improvement
12
North Dakota Rural Health Association

Info & advocacy for rural health in nd

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bismarck-Mandan Chamber Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Brave the Shave. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mandan Park District — $4,613,835 · OtherMandan Park DistrictCHURCH OF ST JOSEPH MANDAN TRUSTEE INC — $175,000 · Other+2 more — $19,000 · OtherMANDAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyMANDAN TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC — $22,180 · Recreation & SportsLARKS COMMUNITY FUND — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICS — $10,000 · EducationUNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC GROUP RETURN — $5,000 · EducationCHI HEALTH CONNECT AT HOME - FARGO — $10,000 · HealthBRAVE THE SHAVE — $6,000 · HealthBISMARCK-MANDAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $14,800 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH DAKOTA SAFETY COUNCIL — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterOPERATION CIGARS FOR WARRIORS — $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$4,807,835Philanthropy$35,000Recreation & Sports$27,180Education$25,000Health$16,000Youth Development$14,800Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Public Benefit$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMANDAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION — $35,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMANDAN TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC — $22,180 over 1y, 19% of budgetUSA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA SAFETY COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHI HEALTH CONNECT AT HOME - FARGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVE THE SHAVE — $6,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC GROUP RETURN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARKS COMMUNITY FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetOPERATION CIGARS FOR WARRIORS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Sanford Group ReturnSD13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sanford Group Return · North Dakota Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Mandan Baseball Club Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mandan Baseball Club Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mandan Baseball Club Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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