· Private foundation
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
Anchored by a single position: about 94% of reported assets are held in Sei Investments.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $11,593 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,335 |
| TEXAS BRIGADES | $10,000 |
| GATEWAY TO SCIENCE CENTER INC | $8,121 |
| PHEASANTS FOREVER | $6,583 |
| ND STATE UNIVERSITY | $6,326 |
| ND DEPT OF WATER RESOURCES | $6,166 |
| WALSH CO THREE RIVERS SCD | $5,032 |
| FARRMS | $5,000 |
| AUDUBON DAKOTA | $4,800 |
| FARGO-MOOHEAD SCIENCE MUSEUM | $4,771 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $4,039 |
| UNITED PRAIRIE FOUNDATION | $2,765 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,093 |
| NORTH VALLEY CAREER TECHNOLOGY | $1,430 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +170% since the first grant, against +113% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GTGATEWAY TO SCIENCE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +170%
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +80%- DUDucks Unlimited Inc6× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- NPND PARKS RECEATION DEPTone grant, 2024 · $17k
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +113%
- WWWORLD WILDLIFE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
Wildlife and natural ecosystems to safeguard biological diversity for current and future generations.
Educating the public about the biology, habitat and welfare of the Pronghorn.
The superior bio-conservancy is an ambitious plan to protect and restore the biological integrity and hydrology of the great lakes region and the laurentian forest province throughout minnesota, wisconsin and michigan.
The conservancy, in partnership with the national park service, is dedicated to enriching and preserving forever the wonders and significance of the parks of the badlands of south dakota.
Unite all americans to ensure wildlife thrives in a rapidly changing world.
Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.
To promote and protect Wildlife
Jackson hole wildlife foundation advances wildlife conservation driven by science, collaboration, and a community of volunteers.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GATEWAY TO SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds UNITED PRAIRIE FOUNDATION INCORPORA ↗
- Who funds Bobwhite Brigade ↗
- Who funds BADLANDS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA FFA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FARGO-MOORHEAD SCIENCE MUSEUM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization North Dakota Natural Resources Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Dakota Natural Resources Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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