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North Dakota Stockmen's Foundation

To engage in educational, promotional, and research activities dedicated to the improvement of the beef cattle industry.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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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.

Public Safety & Disaster$110kFood & Nutrition$20kCommunity Improvement$9k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $20,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $27,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,250 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$12,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE$12,400
NORTH DAKOTA STOCKMEN'S ASSOCIATION$8,500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEBRASKA CATTLEMEN DISASTER R: $40k → 13%TEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE: $14k → 11%OKLAHOMA CATTLEMENS FOUNDATI: $14k → 16%KANSAS LIVESTOCK FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%COLORADO CATTLEMENS FOUNDATI: $14k → 7%NORTH DAKOTA STOCKMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $9k → 10%GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK: $20k → 12%TEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE: $12k → 11%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 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.

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North Dakota Stockmen's Foundation

To engage in educational, promotional, and research activities dedicated to the improvement of the beef cattle industry.

Philanthropy
2
Colorado Cattlemen's Association

The colorado cattlemen's association's mission is to promote the interests of colorado's beef industry and protect colorado's land, water, and forage resources.

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3
North Carolina Cattlemen's Association Inc

To promote, educate, market and defend the beef industry.

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4
Cattlemens Congress Inc

The Cattlemens Congress is an opportunity for breeders across North America to showcase their top genetics and connect with fellow beef producers in a central location, in the heart of cattle country.

Recreation & Sports
5
South Dakota Beef Industry Council Inc

To collect and administer the $1 beef checkoff program for the state of south dakota. the beef checkoff program is used to promote, educate and provide research for the benefits of beef.

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6
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

To advance the business and policy interests of america's cooperatives and other farmer-owned enterprises.

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7
New Mexico Cattle Growers Assoc

To promote and protect the cattle industry in New Mexico by providing a unified voice on issues of economic importance to the New Mexico cattle industry.

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8
Arizona Cattle Growers Association

To provide education about the cattle industry.

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9
Red Angus Stakeholders Foundation

Support activities improving the red angus breed and developing a higher degree of efficiency in red angus ranching and related agricultural pursuits by supporting youth, research and development, educational, and charitable programs.

Food & Nutrition
10
Idaho Cattle Association Inc

To coordinate and advance the economic well being of the Idaho Beef Industry through innovative and effective political,educational, and marketing programs accepted and supported by all industry segments, partners, and coalitions.

Community Improvement
11
The Arizona Cattle Industry Research and Education Foundation

Livestock education and research in the cattle industry within Arizona.

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12
Nebraska Cattlemen

Working for nebraska beef producers - pasture to plate.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma Cattlemen's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Great Plains Food Bank. 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kansas Livestock Foundation: $14,352 · OtherKansas Livestock FoundationOKLAHOMA CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $14,352 · OtherOKLAHOMA CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION INCCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION: $14,352 · OtherCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATIONTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS ASSOCIATION: $12,400 · OtherTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS ASSOCIATIONNORTH DAKOTA STOCKMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $8,500 · OtherNORTH DAKOTA STOCKMEN'S ASSOCIATIONNEBRASKA CATTLEMEN DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $39,965 · Food & NutritionNEBRASKA CATTLEMEN DISASTER RELIEF FUNDGreat Plains Food Bank: $20,000 · Food & NutritionGreat Plains Food BankTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION: $14,352 · Arts & CultureTEXAS & SOU…
Other$63,956Food & Nutrition$59,965Arts & Culture$14,352

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION: $14,352 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKansas Livestock Foundation: $14,352 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $14,352 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION: $14,352 over 1y, 17% of budgetTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS ASSOCIATION: $12,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA STOCKMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
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    How do I get to North Dakota Stockmen's Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to North Dakota Stockmen's Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 8 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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