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North Dakota Humanities Council
The North Dakota Humanities Council invests in the people of North Dakota by creating and sustaining humanities programs that provides its participants with a better understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a better vision for the future.
- $56k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $33,288
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,288
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations North Dakota Humanities Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $56k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $70k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $410k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $116k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $282k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $439k | 72% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $93k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $105k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc | $151,337 | 8 | 0% |
| State Hist Soc of Nd | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Dakota Newspaper Association Education Found | $125,000 | 2 | 51% |
| North Dakota Bar Foundation Inc | $105,510 | 3 | 50% |
| North Dakota United Foundation | $104,750 | 2 | 23% |
| YWCA Cass Clay | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Consensus Council Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 16% |
| University of North Dakota-College of Business & Public Admin | $98,692 | 7 | n/a |
| Dakota Legacy | $68,155 | 2 | n/a |
| Northern Plains Heritage Foundation | $64,304 | 3 | 6% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc | $151,337 | 8 | 0% |
| State Hist Soc of Nd | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Dakota Newspaper Association Education Found | $125,000 | 2 | 51% |
| North Dakota Bar Foundation Inc | $105,510 | 3 | 50% |
| North Dakota United Foundation | $104,750 | 2 | 23% |
| YWCA Cass Clay | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Consensus Council Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 16% |
| University of North Dakota-College of Business & Public Admin | $98,692 | 7 | n/a |
| Dakota Legacy | $68,155 | 2 | n/a |
| Northern Plains Heritage Foundation | $64,304 | 3 | 6% |
| Dakota Legacy | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nd Industrial Commission | $45,690 | 2 | n/a |
| Bismarck Library Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation | $34,771 | 4 | 0% |
| Lakota Language Consortium Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Dickinson State University | $28,779 | 3 | n/a |
| Spirit Room | $27,840 | 2 | 15% |
| United Tribes Technical College | $22,964 | 3 | 0% |
| Geographical Center Historical Soci | $21,064 | 2 | 8% |
| Grand Forks City County Public Library | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sacred Pipe Resource Center | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| City of Dickinson | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Theatre B | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Mandan | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| North Dakota State University | $19,387 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Minot Nd | $18,322 | 2 | n/a |
| South Sudan Lutheran Church | $17,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Long X Arts Foundation | $17,120 | 1 | 4% |
| Cass County North Dakota Historical Society | $16,667 | 2 | 2% |
| The Human Family | $16,020 | 2 | 10% |
| Learning Bank Inc | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Mary | $12,179 | 1 | 0% |
| North American Bison Discovery Center | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Dakota Media Access Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| International Reading Association Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Indigenous Youth Rising | $10,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Three Affiliated Tribes | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Think North Dakota Education Fund | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Dakota Museum of Art | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tri College University | $9,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Bismarck State College | $9,339 | 1 | n/a |
| Dunn County Writers | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wells County Historical Society | $6,487 | 1 | n/a |
| North Dakota Human Rights Coalition | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
North Dakota Humanities Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: North Dakota Community Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Arts Midwest Incorporated · Otto Bremer Trust · Sanford Group Return · The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Northwest North Dakota Community Foundation Inc · Alex Stern Family Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation
How this is measured
About North Dakota Humanities Council
- How much does North Dakota Humanities Council give?
- North Dakota Humanities Council reported 2 grants totaling $55,788 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does North Dakota Humanities Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Education (24%), Crime & Legal (6%).
- Who are North Dakota Humanities Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc ($151k), State Hist Soc of Nd ($150k), North Dakota Newspaper Association Education Found ($125k).
- Does North Dakota Humanities Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as North Dakota Humanities Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Dakota Community Foundation, Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation.
- Where is North Dakota Humanities Council based?
- North Dakota Humanities Council is based in ND.
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