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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$337k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.8MCommunity Improvement$784kYouth Development$715kEducation$585kHealth$452kHuman Services$422kReligion$417kFood & Nutrition$279kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $1,833,573, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,013,995 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $180,422 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 $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $459k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $337k
$29,920
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH DAKOTA ASSISTIVE$337,000
CATCH$200,000
MISSOURI RIVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100,000
KA JOOG$100,000
SOUTH SUDANESE FOUNATION$100,000
TURTLE MOUNTAN BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS$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
NDNAEF$45,000
NEWBURG UNITED PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$45,000
PRAIRIE PUBLIC RADIO$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $106k → 33%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $53k → 33%BISMARCK GLOBAL NEIGHBORS: $30k → 10%YOUTH WORKS: $19k → 10%KIRAT CULTURAL SOCIETY OF ND: $48k → 12%CROSBY BLUE LINE CLUB: $15k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP REGION 1: $5k → 8%CROSBY BLUE LINE CLUB: $15k → 11%CROSBY BLUE LINE CLUB: $10k → 11%CROSBY BLUE LINE CLUB: $8k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 29 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
56

Total granted

$3.6M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+17%

Still filing today

52%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MR
    MISSOURI RIVER EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +107% · 30% of their budget
  • PP
    Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $228k · revenue +10%
  • LX
    LONG X ARTS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $223k · revenue +78% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • MO
    Ministry on the Margins
    one grant, 2023 · $190k · revenue -6%
  • NR
    NEW ROCKFORD AREA BETTERMENT CORP
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +15%
  • UC
    UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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.

04Its 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.

1
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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2
Nd Natural Resources Conservation Trust

To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota

Environment
3
North Dakota Public Information Officer Association
Education
4
Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce

The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.

—
5
North Dakota Rural Health Association

Info & advocacy for rural health in nd

Health
6
North Dakota University System Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
7
Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce

The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.

—
8
Nd Association of Counties

NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.

—
9
Evolve Nd

To promote, build, educate, and help entrepreneurial, startup, and creative communities in grand forks, north dakota and the surrounding region

Community Improvement
10
North Dakota Masonic Foundation
—
11
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

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…

Human Services
12
Ndsu Research Foundation

To assist north dakota state university in teaching, research and public service projects.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Dakota Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/47
Grantees still filing
27/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPPER MISSOURI LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP: $385,096 · OtherUPPER MISSOURI LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMPSOUTH EAST EDUCATION COOPERATIVE: $220,000 · OtherSOUTH EAST EDUCATION COOPERATIVECATCH: $200,000 · OtherCATCHKA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION: $200,000 · OtherKA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONJOURNAL PUBLISHING INC: $175,450 · OtherJOURNAL PUBLISHING INCDIVIDE COUNTY ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $163,828 · OtherNEWBURG UNITED PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $150,000 · Other+71 more: $1,725,989 · Other+71 morePrairie Public Broadcasting Inc: $228,000 · Arts & CulturePrairie Public Broad…LONG X ARTS FOUNDATION: $222,800 · Arts & CultureLONG X ARTS FOUNDATI…CARRINGTON RAINBOW GARDENS: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCARRINGTON RAINBOW G…NORTH DAKOTA NEWS COOPERATIVE: $186,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH DAKOTA NEWS CO…INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP: $83,140 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL MUSIC …NORTH DAKOTA BAR FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH DAKOTA BAR FOU…REVITALIZE ROLLA: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $29,500 · Arts & CultureNorth Dakota Assistive: $337,000 · EducationNorth Dakota…MISSOURI RIVER EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationMISSOURI RIV…+2 more: $15,000 · EducationSOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Community ImprovementSHEYENNE GRIT: $150,000 · Community ImprovementENHANCING AND STRENGTHENING NORTH DAKOTA NONPROFITS: $25,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementSTANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $159,357 · Human ServicesKIRAT CULTURAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $48,000 · Human ServicesCROSBY BLUE LINE CLUB: $47,600 · Human ServicesBISMARCK GLOBAL NEIGHBORS: $30,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS: $18,900 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesMinistry on the Margins: $190,000 · ReligionLake Region Ambulance Service: $85,000 · HealthHEARTVIEW FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthHEARTSPRINGS: $9,611 · HealthSt Lukes Hospital: $5,600 · HealthSUMMIT COUNSELING INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$3,220,363Arts & Culture$1,104,440Education$652,000Community Improvement$380,000Human Services$308,857Religion$190,000Health$115,211

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Dakota Assistive: $337,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMISSOURI RIVER EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetPrairie Public Broadcasting Inc: $228,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLONG X ARTS FOUNDATION: $222,800 over 3y, 37% of budgetCARRINGTON RAINBOW GARDENS: $200,000 over 2y, 83% of budgetSOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetMinistry on the Margins: $190,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA NEWS COOPERATIVE: $186,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetSTANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $159,357 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetSHEYENNE GRIT: $150,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetNEW ROCKFORD AREA BETTERMENT CORP: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetLake Region Ambulance Service: $85,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP: $83,140 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $71,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA BAR FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetNyeri Madi Cultural Dance Group: $57,312 over 2y, 50% of budgetREVITALIZE ROLLA: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCROSBY BLUE LINE CLUB: $47,600 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART: $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMINOT STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBISMARCK GLOBAL NEIGHBORS: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetJAMESTOWN FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION INC: $26,400 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetENHANCING AND STRENGTHENING NORTH DAKOTA NONPROFITS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMAAH DAAH HEY TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $20,680 over 1y, 15% of budgetWILLISTON COYOTE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSTATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS: $18,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS SHELTER INC: $16,750 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTNT Kid's Fitness: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Mary: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOWMAN COUNTY JOB DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA SAFETY COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTVIEW FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTSPRINGS: $9,611 over 1y, 17% of budgetBakken Oil Rush Watford City Outreach: $6,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSt Lukes Hospital: $5,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUND Alumni Association and Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLISTON PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA FIREFIGHTER'S ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUMMIT COUNSELING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds North Dakota Assistive ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI RIVER EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc ↗
  • Who funds LONG X ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds CARRINGTON RAINBOW GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ministry on the Margins ↗
  • Who funds NORTH DAKOTA NEWS COOPERATIVE ↗
  • Who funds STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds SHEYENNE GRIT ↗
  • Who funds NEW ROCKFORD AREA BETTERMENT CORP ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds CROSBY BLUE LINE CLUB ↗
  • Who funds NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART ↗

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.

North Dakota Communit…Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Otto Bremer TrustThe Tom and Frances L…Otter Tail Power Comp…Fargo-Moorhead Area F…Sanford Group ReturnMidcontinent Foundati…The Bush FoundationGreat Plains Food BankThe Barry FoundationBnsf Railway Foundati…
North Dakota Community FoundationND45.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 107 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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