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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $217,527, the rows itemized in this filing. The $233,527 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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.

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 +20%
  • SB
    STATE BAR ASSOCIATION OF NORTH DAKOTA
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
South Dakota Coalition Ending Domestic and Sexual Violence

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

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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
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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…

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5
Nd Association of Counties

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

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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

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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.

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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,…

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12
Nd State Building & Construction Trades Council

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Dakota Domestic & Sexual Violence Coalition; 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, 2017–2025.

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 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustNorth Dakota Communit…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization North Dakota Bar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Dakota Bar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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