North Dakota · Private foundation
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $92k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,593
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $45M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations North Dakota Natural Resources Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 16 | $92k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $93k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $62k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $80k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $57k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $24k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $101k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $58k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway to Science Center Inc | $42,121 | 7 | 1% |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $41,859 | 7 | 0% |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $33,552 | 6 | 0% |
| Ecological Insights | $23,433 | 4 | 10% |
| Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory | $13,228 | 1 | 0% |
| United Prairie Foundation Incorpora | $10,645 | 4 | 2% |
| Bobwhite Brigade | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bismarket | $7,837 | 1 | n/a |
| Badlands Conservation Alliance | $7,033 | 2 | 0% |
| North Dakota FFA Foundation Incorporated | $5,900 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway to Science Center Inc | $42,121 | 7 | 1% |
| National Audubon Society Inc | $41,859 | 7 | 0% |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $33,552 | 6 | 0% |
| Ecological Insights | $23,433 | 4 | 10% |
| Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory | $13,228 | 1 | 0% |
| United Prairie Foundation Incorpora | $10,645 | 4 | 2% |
| Bobwhite Brigade | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bismarket | $7,837 | 1 | n/a |
| Badlands Conservation Alliance | $7,033 | 2 | 0% |
| North Dakota FFA Foundation Incorporated | $5,900 | 1 | 1% |
| Fargo-Moorhead Science Museum | $4,771 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of White Horse Hill | $1,201 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($438k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget North Dakota Natural Resources Trust supplied at peak.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
Compare North Dakota Natural Resources Trust with peer funders
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About North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
- How much does North Dakota Natural Resources Trust give?
- North Dakota Natural Resources Trust reported 17 grants totaling $92,218 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does North Dakota Natural Resources Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (45%), Animals (19%), Science & Tech (13%).
- Who are North Dakota Natural Resources Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gateway to Science Center Inc ($42k), National Audubon Society Inc ($42k), Ducks Unlimited Inc ($34k).
- Does North Dakota Natural Resources Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does North Dakota Natural Resources Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as North Dakota Natural Resources Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is North Dakota Natural Resources Trust based?
- North Dakota Natural Resources Trust is based in ND.
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