How much does Myra Foundation give?

Myra Foundation reported 85 grants totaling $760,669 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 74 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Myra Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Education (12%).

Who are Myra Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Grand Forks Children's Museum Inc ($285k), Empire Arts Center ($161k), Valley Senior Living Foundation ($125k).

Does Myra Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Myra Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Myra Foundation based?

Myra Foundation is based in ND.

Foundation Dossiers

North Dakota · Private foundation

Myra Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$761k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 85
Grants FY2025: 68
Organizations funded FY2024: 15%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $54,000
Organizations funded a year: 66 to 74; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $16M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Myra Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	78	$759k	21%
FY2024	68	$709k	15%
FY2023	66	$704k	17%
FY2022	74	$731k	27%
FY2021	72	$820k	47%
FY2020	69	$725k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MRecreation & Sports$560kEducation$543kHealth$537kHuman Services$382kFood & Nutrition$224kYouth Development$203kHousing & Shelter$198kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Grand Forks Children's Museum Inc	$285,000	5	13%
Empire Arts Center	$160,600	6	7%
Valley Senior Living Foundation	$125,178	6	8%
St Joseph's Social Care and Thrift Store	$120,000	6	2%
Humane Society of Grand Forks Dba Circle of Friends Animal Shelter	$111,500	6	5%
Myally Health	$102,500	6	3%
Gf County Historical Society	$101,458	6	14%
Northlands Rescue Mission Inc	$91,739	6	1%
United Way of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and the Area Inc	$67,500	4	3%
Northwood Deaconess Health Center	$65,738	6	0%

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All grantees of Myra Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Grand Forks Children's Museum Inc	$285,000	5	13%
Empire Arts Center	$160,600	6	7%
Valley Senior Living Foundation	$125,178	6	8%
St Joseph's Social Care and Thrift Store	$120,000	6	2%
Humane Society of Grand Forks Dba Circle of Friends Animal Shelter	$111,500	6	5%
Myally Health	$102,500	6	3%
Gf County Historical Society	$101,458	6	14%
Northlands Rescue Mission Inc	$91,739	6	1%
United Way of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and the Area Inc	$67,500	4	3%
Northwood Deaconess Health Center	$65,738	6	0%
Grand Cities Childrens Choir	$61,700	5	n/a
Santa Claus Girls	$61,000	6	25%
North Dakota Museum of Art	$58,500	6	1%
Grand Forks Curling Club Inc	$57,850	2	21%
Special Olympics North Dakota Inc	$54,000	4	1%
Mountain Plains Youth Works	$52,500	5	0%
Red River Valley Athletics Inc	$49,209	6	3%
Third Street Clinic	$47,840	4	23%
Grand Forks Foundation for Education Inc	$45,000	5	2%
Altru Health Foundation	$45,000	4	0%
Artwise	$44,000	6	14%
Greater Grand Forks Community Theatre	$43,641	6	12%
Community Violence Intervention Center	$42,820	6	0%
Muddy Waters Clay Center Inc	$40,485	5	16%
Grand Forks Parks and Recreation Foundation	$40,000	6	1%
BIO Girls Inc	$40,000	4	1%
Manvel Community Center Inc	$40,000	4	n/a
Hospice of the Red River Valley	$39,860	4	0%
Village Family Service Center	$38,365	6	0%
Greater Grand Forks Community Corrections Advisory	$34,004	6	5%
Emerado Rural Volunteer Fire Department Inc	$33,965	2	n/a
Larimore Fire Protection District	$33,500	3	8%
Northern Valley Youth Orchestras	$32,900	6	7%
United Day Nursery Inc	$32,577	5	2%
Grand Forks Public School District	$29,500	5	n/a
Prairie Harvest Mental Health	$26,500	4	1%
Midway Public School	$25,864	2	n/a
Arc Upper Valley Inc	$24,500	6	1%
Public Arts Commission	$22,500	4	5%
Emerado Cemetery Incorporated	$20,969	5	n/a
Greater Grand Forks Senior Citizens Association	$20,000	1	1%
Spectra Health	$20,000	2	0%
Girl Scouts - Dakota Horizons	$17,500	5	0%
Global Friends Coalition	$16,698	5	3%
Northwood Hockey Boosters	$15,000	1	22%
Journey Home Animal Rescue	$14,660	2	3%
Northern Lights Council of the Boy Scouts of America Inc	$14,500	5	0%
Mini Monarchs Child Care Facility LLC	$13,109	2	8%
St Annes Guest Home	$10,700	1	1%
Homeless Helpers	$10,000	1	n/a
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Development Homes Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Uspirend	$9,279	2	1%
Red River Valley Community Action	$9,000	2	0%
Town Square Farmers Market	$9,000	1	n/a
Young Mens Christian Association	$8,335	3	0%
Thompson Independent Youth Baseball Program	$8,000	1	n/a
North Dakota Ballet Company	$8,000	1	3%
Thompson Music Boosters	$6,650	1	n/a
Lutheran Social Services of Nd	$6,500	1	n/a
Project Dignity	$6,000	2	n/a
Evolve Nd	$5,045	1	2%
Greater Grand Forks Young Professionals	$5,000	1	4%
Share House Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Red River Childrens Advocacy Center	$5,000	1	0%
Lions Foundation of North Dakota Inc	$4,350	1	5%
Dakota Science Center Inc	$4,000	1	n/a
North Dakota Shakespeare Festival	$3,700	1	n/a
Northwood School Foundation Inc	$3,500	1	37%
Kori Art	$3,420	1	5%
Arts for Vets	$2,500	1	n/a
Forx Amateur Radio Club	$2,224	1	n/a
African Arts Arena	$2,000	1	n/a
Border Blades Figure Skating Club	$2,000	1	1%
River Forks Watercolor Society	$800	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Myra Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 57.

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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.

Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and RegionND68.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Region · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · North Dakota Community Foundation · The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation · United Way of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and the Area Inc · Botsford Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Impact Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Myra Foundation

How much does Myra Foundation give?: Myra Foundation reported 85 grants totaling $760,669 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 74 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Myra Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Education (12%).
Who are Myra Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Grand Forks Children's Museum Inc ($285k), Empire Arts Center ($161k), Valley Senior Living Foundation ($125k).
Does Myra Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Myra Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Myra Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Region, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, Midcontinent Foundation.
Where is Myra Foundation based?: Myra Foundation is based in ND.