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Offutt Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
114
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$6.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$16MHealth$2.5MHuman Services$863kReligion$665kFood & Nutrition$388kRecreation & Sports$371kYouth Development$281kPublic Benefit$280kOther$0
02FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k87 grants · $328k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+6 grants · $7.9M
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$381M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONCORDIA$6,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARY$625,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARY$500,000
YWCA$250,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$250,000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY$250,000
Individual grant recipient$230,000
DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOL$190,500
OAK GROVE LUTHERAN SCHOOL$125,000
NEW LIFE CENTER$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
MAYO FOUNDATION$100,000
ANNE CARLSEN CENTER$100,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
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, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Spreading Threads Clothing Bank: $1k → 15%THE FRESNO CENTER: $2k → 19%Mission Righteous Roots: $500 → 12%COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%Tumbleweed Runaway Program Inc: $8k → 9%ABOUT FAMILIES INC: $2k → 11%Tri-Cities Chaplaincy: $10k → 11%REACH - Rural Enrichment and Counseling Headquarters: $1k → 11%Exceptional Parents Unlimited Inc: $10k → 19%NDAD: $2k → 10%AMERICAN HEROES OUTDOORS: $15k → 10%Tumbleweed Runaway Program Inc: $10k → 9%Haley's Hope: $1k → 12%A Place to Belong: $1k → 9%HALEY'S HOPE: $1k → 12%HOPE MANOR FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 10%Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley: $13k → 12%Fix It Forward Ministry Inc: $5k → 11%HOPE BLOOMS: $8k → 12%Rape and Abuse Crisis Center: $5k → 12%Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley: $5k → 12%Fix It Forward Ministry Inc: $1k → 11%Hopeful Heart Project: $1k → 12%Hope Blooms: $1k → 12%Rural Enrichment & Counseling Headquarters: $3k → 11%Rape and Abuse Crisis Center: $1k → 12%HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $665k → 12%Hospice of the Red River Valley: $335k → 12%NEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING: $35k → 12%NEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING: $13k → 12%HEART-N-SOUL COMMUNITY CAF INC: $1k → 12%Hospice of the Red River Valley: $1k → 12%YMCA of Cass and Clay Counties: $1k → 12%FIRSTLINK: $1k → 12%Family Wellness LLC: $3k → 12%CENTRAL CASS TREEHOUSE: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
ND
MN
NY
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 61 repeat orgs$8.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 84 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
154

Total granted

$14M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+15%

Still filing today

59%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & 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

  • UO
    University of Mary
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +17%
  • HO
    Hospice of the Red River Valley
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +17%
  • TR
    THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $750k · revenue +143%

Funded once

  • FE
    FARGO ELIM CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
  • Y
    YFCI
    one grant, 2023 · $108k
  • VC
    VALLEY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING & WELLNESSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +53%
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
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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2
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
3
Face It Together - Bismarck-Mandan

To get people with addiction and their loved ones well.

Human Services
4
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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5
North Dakota Federation of Families for Childrens Mental Health

Children's mental health

Health
6
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
7
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
8
Prairie Harvest Mental Health

We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.

Human Services
9
North Dakota News Cooperative
Arts & Culture
10
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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11
Northland Counseling Center Inc

Northland Counseling Center, Inc. is dedicated to providing a variety of services to people who may be experiencing mental health, chemical dependency, or co-occurring issues. By applying best practices in teaching life changing skills, it…

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12
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pink It Forward. 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

148 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. 148 of the 303 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
146/148
Grantees still filing
92/148
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $7,257,500 · OtherCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATIONCONCORDIA: $6,000,000 · OtherCONCORDIASanford Foundation: $750,000 · Other+143 more: $4,369,595 · Other+143 moreUniversity of Mary: $1,235,000 · EducationUniversity o…THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $750,000 · EducationTHEODORE ROO…DORDT UNIVERSITY: $275,000 · EducationDORDT UNIVER…North Dakota State University Foundation: $107,500 · EducationANNE CARLSEN CENTER: $101,000 · EducationPERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER: $100,000 · Education+5 more: $50,750 · EducationHospice of the Red River Valley: $1,001,000 · Human ServicesNEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING: $47,500 · Human Services+10 more: $106,000 · Human ServicesFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $250,000 · InternationalVILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $10,000 · InternationalVALLEY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING & WELLNESS: $50,000 · HealthDakota Medical Foundation: $26,000 · HealthST JOSEPH'S AREA HEALTH SERVICES: $25,000 · HealthVeterans Navigation Network: $15,000 · HealthNortheastern Mental Health Center: $10,000 · HealthCENTRAL VALLEY VETERANS: $10,000 · HealthNAMI Texas Inc: $10,000 · HealthYELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $10,000 · Health+10 more: $44,500 · HealthLEGACY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $116,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN: $11,250 · Youth DevelopmentRED RIVER VALLEY FAIR FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentROCKSOLID COMMUNITY TEEN CENTER: $6,400 · Youth DevelopmentBIO Girls Inc: $6,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,750 · Youth DevelopmentEMERGING PRAIRIE: $75,000 · Community ImprovementMONTANA TECH ACCELERATIONN ASS DBA SCALING MONTANA: $15,000 · Community ImprovementBIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 · Community ImprovementHEARTLAND LAKES DEVELOPMENT COMMISS: $3,750 · Community Improvement
Other$18,377,095Education$2,619,250Human Services$1,154,500International$280,000Health$200,500Youth Development$150,900Community Improvement$101,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $7,257,500 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetUniversity of Mary: $1,235,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHospice of the Red River Valley: $1,001,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY: $275,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEGACY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $116,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation: $107,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANNE CARLSEN CENTER: $101,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetEMERGING PRAIRIE: $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $66,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER: $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING & WELLNESS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAberdeen Family YMCA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING: $47,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDakota Medical Foundation: $26,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH'S AREA HEALTH SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMemory Cafe of the Red River Valley: $17,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMONTANA TECH ACCELERATIONN ASS DBA SCALING MONTANA: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetVeterans Navigation Network: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAberdeen Area Veterans Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN HEROES OUTDOORS: $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN: $11,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHEART OF CLAY: $11,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHOPE INC: $11,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $10,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL PARENTS UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTOR B WALLIN POST 12: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNortheastern Mental Health Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY VETERANS: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNAMI Texas Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTri-Cities Chaplaincy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope Blooms: $8,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHOPE MANOR FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNorthern Cass Community Health & Wellness Center: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEVA'S HEROES: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROCHESTER ACTIVE SPORTS COMMUNITY: $7,500 over 1y, 5.8% 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 CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Mary ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of the Red River Valley ↗
  • Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EMERGING PRAIRIE ↗
  • Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds ABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING & WELLNESS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC ↗
  • Who funds Aberdeen Family YMCA ↗
  • Who funds NEXUS-PATH FAMILY HEALING ↗
  • Who funds FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND ↗

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.

Blue Cross Blue Shiel…The Barry FoundationFargo-Moorhead Area F…Midcontinent Foundati…Alex Stern Family Fou…Dakota Medical Founda…Sanford Group ReturnOtto Bremer TrustNorth Dakota Communit…Impact FoundationDakota Medical Charit…Otter Tail Corporatio…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring FoundationND96.4× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Midcontinent Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · North Dakota Community Foundation · Impact Foundation · Dakota Medical Charities · Otter Tail Corporation 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 Offutt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Offutt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Offutt Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Offutt Family 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 303 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-PF 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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