How much did MIDCONTINENT FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of MIDCONTINENT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

trailblazer awardpurchase inchutensilsdoor commercialcommercial freezerproblemlego league

2019

board meetingadditional fallfall afterafter boardaudioservercompliant playground

2020

response covidbank responsesitesgoogle classroomexhibitioncommunity-baseddue covid

2021

imagination librarydgfhygiene itemsinclusiongrades gradesportscoreboard

2022

therasuitrubberdecisionsmulchhealthy lifestylesheartsspotting

2023

harveyrequestnonfastpitchplay competitivecompetitive softballbridge

2024

jag-sdsurprise requestedrequestaimsrespondcertifyscan

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 258 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$81k

Total assets

Largest grants

CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
YMCA SIOUX FALLS (FOR CAMP LEIF ERICSON)$5,000
WECAN WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK$4,000
TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS$3,000
DOUGLAS COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION DBA POSITIVE BRIGHT START$3,000
LE SUEUR COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION$2,500
CITY OF BASEHOR$2,500
FRIENDS OF LEVITT SIOUX FALLS LLC$2,500
IT TAKES A VILLAGE (FISCAL SPONSOR EMBE)$2,500
THE LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL BANDPARENTS ASSOCIATION$2,500
CITY OF TONGANOXIE$2,070
O'CONNELL CHILDREN'S SHELTER$2,000
NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000
SHERBURN FIRE DEPARTMENT$2,000
DOLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$2,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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 5% of MIDCONTINENT 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, 20% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 18% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

MIDCONTINENT FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 3.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 302 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

302 repeat relationships — 110 still active in FY2024, 192 since wound down; 125 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

302

708

Total granted

$1.2M

$875k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+38%

Still filing today

56%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

FS
Feeding South Dakota
8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +36%
JF
Just Food of Douglas County KS
6× · 2017–2022 · $63k · revenue +64%
GP
Great Plains Food Bank
2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +39%

Funded once

SF
SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +224%
NC
NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -14%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHENgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +1417%

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.

Ne South Dakota Community

The organization was formed to reduce poverty, revitalize low-income communities, and empower low-income individuals and families to become self sufficient.

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Prairie Harvest Mental Health

We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.

Human Services

North Dakota Natural Resources

—

Foundation for a Healthy North Dakota

A coalition that empowers people to make science-based decisions for themselves, their families, and the community through education, advocacy and collaborative partnerships.

Philanthropy

Southeastern North Dakota Community

Assistance to low-income individuals in a six county area of north dakota.

Human Services

Avera Health

Promotion of health

Health

North Dakota Federation of Families

Children's mental health

Health

Catholic Charities North Dakota

Catholic Charities of North Dakota provides services to people in need across the state of ND.

—

Western South Dakota Senior Services

Serving meals to elderly in western south dakota

—

Mental Health Minnesota

Mental Health Minnesota is the voice of lived mental health expenience. We carry that declaration forward as we work to advance mental health and well-being for all, increase access to mental health treatment and services, and provide…

Health

United Way of North Central Iowa

Connect and strengthen community resources to inspire change in the lives of all north Iowans.

Philanthropy

Leadership South Dakota

Leadership south dakotas mission is to attract engaged citizens from across the state, then provide them with the background, unique experiences and insights necessary to assume leadership positions at the community, state, and national…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lifescape. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%2/491

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,074

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.

06the grantee network

436 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

171

Early backer (in before they grew)

419/436

Grantees still filing

327/436

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,592,059Human Services$177,038Food & Nutrition$170,866Health$102,658Education$85,616Philanthropy$42,615Youth Development$42,098

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.

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.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring FoundationND133× affinity73 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Sioux Falls Area Community · The Barry Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation · Avera Health · North Dakota Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Dakota Medical Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Offutt 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 organisation MIDCONTINENT 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SCANDIA ELEMENTARY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 412019009 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SCANDIA ELEMENTARY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Midcontinent Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Midcontinent Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MIDCONTINENT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

436 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Midcontinent Foundation?

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MIDCONTINENT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

436 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Midcontinent Foundation?

More from the funding graph