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North Dakota Community Foundation
To improve the quality of life for north dakota's citizens through charitable giving and promoting philanthropy.
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 260 grants below total $10,187,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,493,027 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,305,427 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 $10k74 grants · $539k
- $10k–50k139 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k41 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIB | $1,136,275 |
| WISHEK PARK BOARD | $781,511 |
| UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $322,741 |
| MCKENZIE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTR | $312,068 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL | $289,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $250,250 |
| SITTING BULL COLLEGE | $203,967 |
| NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $187,926 |
| CANDESKA CIKANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $185,892 |
| TURTLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE I | $163,934 |
| DICKINSON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $153,116 |
| OAK GROVE LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| PRAIRIE ROSE GOLF COURSE | $133,000 |
| ANNE CARLSEN CENTER | $132,932 |
| ARTHUR FIRE DEPARTMENT | $120,000 |
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, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 6% of North Dakota 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 92% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
268 repeat relationships — 166 still active in FY2024, 102 since wound down; 91 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M 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
- TRTHEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue ×138
- NDNorth Dakota State University Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $654k · revenue +78%
- UTUNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $651k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- DPDICKINSON PARKS & RECREATIONone grant, 2022 · $325k
- CTCross Trainingone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -6%
- DIDREAMS IN MOTIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
Info & advocacy for rural health in nd
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota
Serve as a local access to a full range of health care services. continue as a leader in primary care for the whole family, in care of the elderly, and in emergency services. Function as a focal point for health education and wellness.
NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.
St. Luke's Home and its assisted living facility, Park Avenue Villa, exist to provide a continuum of quality care to God's people, creating a compassionate, comfortable, and family oriented atmosphere, striving to enhance the dignity and…
The mission of Hatton Prairie Village is to provide a welcoming, friendly and spirit-filled home to loved ones who need long term or short term care; excellent care and services by compassionate and highly-skilled employees who treat…
The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.
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.
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 Pink It Forward. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
330 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. 330 of the 603 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SITTING BULL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Gaia Home ↗
- Who funds CANKDESKA CIKANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TURTLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cass County North Dakota Historical Society ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Sunset Home ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GRAFTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UND Alumni Association and Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds Southwest Art Gallery and Science 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: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · Great Plains Food Bank · The Barry Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Cass-Clay · Impact Foundation · Otter Tail Power Company 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 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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