· Private foundation
Midcontinent Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| YMCA SIOUX FALLS (FOR CAMP LEIF ERICSON) | $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 |
| THE LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL BANDPARENTS ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| IT TAKES A VILLAGE (FISCAL SPONSOR EMBE) | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LE SUEUR COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF LEVITT SIOUX FALLS LLC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,070 |
| EUDORA COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ANNE CARLSEN CENTER | $2,000 |
| O'CONNELL CHILDREN'S SHELTER | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Midcontinent Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 20% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 18%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +28%
- JFJUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $64k · revenue +64%
- GPGreat Plains Food Bank2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- NCNORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +20%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -40%- SASALVATION ARMY OF MARTIN COUNTY MNone grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
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.
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…
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
To promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income clients through quality legal assistance
To assist seniors in maintaining optimal health, independence, and socialization, deferring admission to long term care facilities and improving their quality of life.
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…
Children's mental health
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.
How this is measured
552 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 552 of the 1,069 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds JUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds DAKOTABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds RAPID CITY CLUB FOR BOYS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Ely Area Food Shelf ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Breathe Bravely Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN HOME ↗
- Who funds KOOCHICHING COUNTY FOOD ACCESS ↗
- Who funds EMBE ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds HEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVERS RESPONSE EFFORT & SERVIC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds WORKING AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS OF SHELTER OF KOOCHICHING ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COMPASS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY WOMEN'S ACTION AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Midcontinent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Midcontinent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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