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North Dakota Bar Foundation Inc

Advance the science of jurisprudence and promote the administration of justice and uniformity of judicial decision, exclusively through educational and scientific means or purposes within the state of north dakota.

$234k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Crime & Legal$1.5MEducation$207kHousing & Shelter$120kHuman Services$64kCivil Rights$40k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $217,527 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $233,527 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,000 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 $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$14,992
Median grant
1
States reached
$703k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA$80,000
SAFE ALTERNATIVES FOR ABUSED FAMILIES$46,800
LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA$18,838
NORTH DAKOTA DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE COALITION$17,497
STATE BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH DAKOTA$14,992
NORTH DAKOTA HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION$10,000
HIGH PLAINS FAIR HOUSING CENTER$10,000
UND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND FOUNDATION$8,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF NORTH DAKOTA$6,000
NORTH DAKOTA SUPREME COURT$5,400
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTH DAKOTA DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE COALITION: $17k → 10%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF NORTH DAKOTA: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 4 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$1.8M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther

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

  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +9% · 35% of their budget
  • UA
    UND Alumni Association and Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $207k · revenue +2%
  • HP
    HIGH PLAINS FAIR HOUSING CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +116% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • SA
    SAFE ALTERNTVS FOR ABUSED FAMILIES
    one grant, 2024 · $47k · revenue 0%
  • ND
    NORTH DAKOTA DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE COALITION
    one grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue 0%
  • SB
    STATE BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH DAKOTA
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%

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.

1
South Dakota Coalition Ending Domestic and Sexual Violence

To provide training and assistance to shelters for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

2
North Dakota Bar Foundation Inc

Advance the science of jurisprudence and promote the administration of justice and uniformity of judicial decision, exclusively through educational and scientific means or purposes within the state of north dakota.

Arts & Culture
3
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
4
North Dakota Association of Realtors

The north dakota association of realtors exists to promote, support, and unify its members while acting as liaison to the national association of realtors. ndar advocates for the success of our members in partnership with our local…

5
Nd Association of Counties

NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.

6
North Dakota Public Information Officer Association
Education
7
Nebraska Tribes Addressing Violence Coalition

NETAV advances prevention of and response to domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, elder abuse, and human trafficking against Native Americans in NE through education, training, public awareness, and technical assistance…

Human Services
8
North Dakota News Cooperative
Arts & Culture
9
Dakota Plains Legal Services

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

10
North Dakota Long Term Care Association

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.

11
North Dakota Stockmen's Association

The nd stockmen's association is a cattle producers' trade organization. it provides member services & activities, conducts the state's brand programs, & provides legislative watchdog activities. its mission is to unite, protect, promote,…

12
Nd State Building & Construction Trades Council

Advocate fair wages, safe working conditions, registered apprenticeships, and dignified retirement.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Dakota Domestic & Sexual Violence Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Children's Advocacy Centers of North Dakota. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 20172024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA — $1,436,469 · OtherLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA+2 more — $52,200 · OtherUND Alumni Association and Foundation — $207,425 · EducationUND Alumni A…HIGH PLAINS FAIR HOUSING CENTER INC — $119,606 · Housing & ShelterNORTH DAKOTA HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION — $40,000 · Civil RightsNORTH DAKOTA DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE COALITION — $17,497 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF NORTH DAKOTA — $6,000 · Human ServicesSTATE BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH DAKOTA — $14,992 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,488,669Education$207,425Housing & Shelter$119,606Civil Rights$40,000Human Services$23,497Crime & Legal$14,992

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA — $1,436,469 over 8y, 35% of budgetUND Alumni Association and Foundation — $207,425 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FAIR HOUSING CENTER INC — $119,606 over 2y, 37% of budgetSAFE ALTERNTVS FOR ABUSED FAMILIES — $46,800 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION — $40,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE COALITION — $17,497 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTATE BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH DAKOTA — $14,992 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF NORTH DAKOTA — $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · North Dakota Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 North Dakota Bar Foundation Inc 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.

2023
2021222324
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY2024

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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