· Private foundation
Paris Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DREAM CENTER BISMARCK | $30,000 |
| HOME ON THE RANGE | $20,000 |
| MANDAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,100 |
| GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| MINISTRY ON THE MARGINS | $10,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- DCDream Center Bismarck4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +48%
- ACANNE CARLSEN CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +27%
- MOMinistry on the Margins5× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- DZDAKOTA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +29%
- TBThe Banquetone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -48%
- CHCHARLES HALL YOUTH FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2019 · $18k
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.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Museum/educational center
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
We are dedicated to enhancing the spirit, mind, and body of all persons through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility.
End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.
Nourishing neighbors, inspiring hope, and supporting families on their road to self-sufficiency.
Committed to improving the wellness of families.
To generate funds equitablely from barley producers for the establishment of market development, public relations, promotion and research to benefit barley producers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch and the most unlike its peers is Hopa Mountain Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 34 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.
- Who funds MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Dream Center Bismarck ↗
- Who funds ANNE CARLSEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ministry on the Margins ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CARRIES KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS ↗
- Who funds HOPA MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds The Banquet ↗
- Who funds HEAVENS HELPERS ↗
- Who funds BISMARCK LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BISMARCK CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
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: The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Great Plains Food Bank · Hauge Family Foundation · Impact Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Paris Family Foundation 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Paris Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Paris 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.