How much did Midcontinent Foundation grant in FY2024?

Food & Nutrition$376kHuman Services$351kEducation$287kHealth$260kYouth Development$179kHousing & Shelter$138kRecreation & Sports$129kPublic Safety & Disaster$103kOther$0

02FY2024 · 262 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$81k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
YMCA SIOUX FALLS (FOR CAMP LEIF ERICSON)	$5,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL	$5,000
WECAN WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK	$4,000
DOUGLAS COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION DBA POSITIVE BRIGHT START	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$3,000
LE SUEUR COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION	$2,500
THE LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL BANDPARENTS ASSOCIATION	$2,500
IT TAKES A VILLAGE (FISCAL SPONSOR EMBE)	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
FRIENDS OF LEVITT SIOUX FALLS LLC	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$2,070
HEAVEN'S TABLE FOOD SHELF - BACKPACK PROGRAM	$2,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
BOWDLE PUBLIC LIBRARY	$2,000
GRAND FORKS PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION	$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. 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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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 6% 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 · 3.3% 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 309 repeat orgs$922k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

309 repeat relationships — 115 still active in FY2024, 194 since wound down; 115 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

309

636

Total granted

$1.3M

$767k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+14%

Still filing today

74%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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 +28%
JF
JUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $64k · revenue +64%
GP
Great Plains Food Bank
2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +34%

Funded once

NC
NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +20%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -40%
SA
SALVATION ARMY OF MARTIN COUNTY MN
one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

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…

Human Services

Prairie Harvest Mental Health

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

Human Services

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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South Dakota Voices for Peace

Sd voices for peace provides five programming areas to assist vulnerable communities access services throughout the state: legal services, multilingual outreach, training and education, advocacy and civic engagement and rapid response.

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The Open Door

The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…

Food & Nutrition

Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc

We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.

Health

Dakota Plains Legal Services

To promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income clients through quality legal assistance

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Western South Dakota Senior Services Inc

To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.

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Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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North Dakota Federation of Families for Childrens Mental Health

Children's mental health

Health

Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Warm Blanket Hugs. 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 29 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.6%4/625

the rest of the field

13%

240,392/1,818,940

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.

05the grantee network

549 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 549 of the 1,069 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

146

Early backer (in before they grew)

530/549

Grantees still filing

366/549

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$688,648Human Services$181,343Food & Nutrition$166,716Health$82,702Education$67,000Housing & Shelter$48,000Philanthropy$33,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 FoundationND155.9× affinity100 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 · Sanford Group Return · The Barry Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc · Dakota Medical Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Avera Health · North Dakota Community Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · 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 organization 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

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

70report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home