· Community foundation
Northwest North Dakota Community Foundation Inc
To improve the quality of life for the citizens within northwest north dakota through charitable giving and promoting philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $1,833,573 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,013,995 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $180,422 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 $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $459k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $337k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH DAKOTA ASSISTIVE | $337,000 |
| CATCH | $200,000 |
| SOUTH SUDANESE FOUNATION | $100,000 |
| MISSOURI RIVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TURTLE MOUNTAN BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS | $100,000 |
| KA JOOG | $100,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA NEWS COOPERATIVE | $86,000 |
| LAKE REGION AMBULANCE SERVICE | $85,000 |
| SHEYENNE GRIT | $75,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK | $65,000 |
| LONG X ARTS FOUNDATION | $58,000 |
| ROLLA JDA | $50,000 |
| NEWBURG UNITED PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $45,000 |
| NDNAEF | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $309k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 21 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- MRMISSOURI RIVER EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +107% · 30% of their budget
- PPPrairie Public Broadcasting Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $228k · revenue +19%
- LXLONG X ARTS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $223k · revenue +78% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- MOMinistry on the Marginsone grant, 2023 · $190k · revenue -6%
- TJTHE JOURNALone grant, 2023 · $100k
- UCUNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
Info & advocacy for rural health in nd
The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.
The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.
NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.
To promote, build, educate, and help entrepreneurial, startup, and creative communities in grand forks, north dakota and the surrounding region
Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…
To assist north dakota state university in teaching, research and public service projects.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Dakota Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nyeri Madi Cultural Dance Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% 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.
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 107 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
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.
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- Who funds MISSOURI RIVER EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds LONG X ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CARRINGTON RAINBOW GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Ministry on the Margins ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA NEWS COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SHEYENNE GRIT ↗
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- Who funds Lake Region Ambulance Service ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA BAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nyeri Madi Cultural Dance Group ↗
- Who funds REVITALIZE ROLLA ↗
- Who funds KIRAT CULTURAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA ↗
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- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: North Dakota Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Great Plains Food Bank · The Barry Foundation · Bnsf Railway 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 Northwest North Dakota Community Foundation Inc 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.