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Minot Community Foundation
Support and improve public well-being.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $1,033,983 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,125,987 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $92,004 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 $10k16 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $472k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS CENTER OF FARGO-MOORHEAD | $250,000 |
| HOSTFEST-HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $97,500 |
| MINOT COMMISSION ON AGING INC | $57,216 |
| MINOT AREA YOUTH SPORTSMAN CLUB INC | $50,000 |
| MINOT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $48,523 |
| SOURIS VALLEY UNITED WAY | $39,042 |
| MINOT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 | $32,938 |
| MINOT PARK DISTRICT | $31,452 |
| LOCAL MOTIVES | $30,000 |
| TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,500 |
| RUGBY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 5 | $25,000 |
| ST ANNE'S CHURCH | $24,460 |
| THE LORD'S CUPBOARD - THE WELCOME TABLE | $21,500 |
| OUR LADY OF GRACE CHURCH | $20,803 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER INC | $19,409 |
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 (FY17–24, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 100% of Minot Community 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, 97% of the giving stays in ND; read by stated purpose it is 0% — 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.
47 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 18 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $632k 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
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC3× · 2017–2019 · $1.0M · revenue ×20 · 32% of their budget
- MSMINOT STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $685k · revenue +38%
- MSMINOT SOCIAL CLUB FOR EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $216k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- CCCALEB'S CLUBHOUSEone grant, 2017 · $101k
- BRBURLINGTON RECREATION COMMISSIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- NDNORTH DAKOTA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERSone grant, 2017 · $52k · 97% of their budget
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.
Provide assistance to low income individuals through the community action self sufficiency programs and energy conservation assistance through the agency's weatherization program.
Support and improve public well-being.
To promote the community to utilize the local merchants and provide economic development for the future.
MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.
Promote shooting sports, gun safety, and sportsmanship and support area youth programs.
To support triangle y camp, the minot family ymca and their programs.
Our sole purpose is to provide funding to improve, maintain, and operate the ymca of minot, nd and its triangle y camp.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
To promote skating and hockey; to promote good sportsmanship; to promote a better understanding of hockey; to encourage participation, support and attendance at hockey games and events, particularly by the young people in minot, north…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Northern Pines Stables. 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 38 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 98 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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC ↗
- Who funds MINOT PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINOT STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo-Moorhead ↗
- Who funds MINOT SOCIAL CLUB FOR EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds SOURIS VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds MINOT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WELCOME TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds MINOT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ND GOLF TOURNAMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSTFEST-HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Open Door Center ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINOT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRITUS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINOT VOCATIONAL ADJUSTMENT WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds MINOT COMMISSION ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds Minot Gun Club Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MINOT AREA YOUTH SPORTSMAN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MINOT AREA MEN'S WINTER REFUGE ↗
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: Inspiritus Community Health Foundation · Ichf Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Minot Junior Golf Association Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Minot Hockey Boosters Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Magic City Lions Club · Souris Valley United Way · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation
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 Minot Community 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.
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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