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Myra Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k60 grants · $281k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $376k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION | $54,000 |
| GRAND FORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC | $50,000 |
| EMPIRE ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS & AREA | $30,000 |
| GRAND FORKS SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE | $25,000 |
| CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTERHUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS | $25,000 |
| NORTHLANDS RESCUE MISSION INC | $20,400 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH DAKOTA | $20,000 |
| GRAND FORKS COUNTY WATER RESOURCE DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| VALLEY SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| GRAND FORKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $17,280 |
| GRAND FORKS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART | $14,000 |
| THE GRAND FORKS SALVATION ARMY | $12,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
87 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
- EAEMPIRE ARTS CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $161k · revenue +23%
- VSVALLEY SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +50%
- MHMYALLY HEALTH6× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- EVEMERADO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2020 · $55k
- VMVETERANS MEMORIAL PARKone grant, 2021 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION & FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $36k
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.
Promote economic growth in grand forks, north dakota and the surrounding communities through the attraction of new industries and expansion of current businesses.
End hunger together.
Children's mental health
The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.
The organization's mission is to provide permanently affordable housing opportunities to the grand forks, nd community.
To provide low income housing to eligible persons in grand forks, nd.
We are a professional association of long term care and community service providers who enhance the lives of people we serve through collaboration, education and advocacy.
Valley Senior Living provides compassionate care and service from a Christian perspective to enhance the quality of life for those we serve.
Promote amateur youth soccer in the grand forks area.
To provide support services for Youth Football Activities in the Great Grand Forks region
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Forks Foundation for Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Journey Home Animal Rescue. 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 32 years old; the field is 31. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 161 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 GRAND FORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE AND THRIFT STORE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds MYALLY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds GF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHLANDS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND THE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD DEACONESS HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA CLAUS GIRLS ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS CURLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH DAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS ↗
- Who funds Red River Valley Athletics Inc ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTWISE ↗
- Who funds GREATER GRAND FORKS COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUDDY WATERS CLAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIO Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Red River Valley ↗
- Who funds Village Family Service Center ↗
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: 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
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 Myra 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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