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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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Human Services$208kPhilanthropy$118kFood & Nutrition$104kArts & Culture$70kReligion$53kYouth Development$48kScience & Tech$45kEducation$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DREAM CENTER BISMARCK$30,000
HOME ON THE RANGE$20,000
MANDAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$10,100
GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST$10,000
GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK$10,000
MINISTRY ON THE MARGINS$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$5,000
CAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS$5,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DREAM CENTER BISMARCK: $30k → 10%DREAM CENTER BISMARCK: $20k → 10%DREAM CENTER BISMARCK: $15k → 10%DREAM CENTER BISMARCK: $15k → 10%CARRIES KIDS INC: $10k → 10%CARRIES KIDS INC: $10k → 10%CARRIES KIDS INC: $10k → 10%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$660k · 18 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
15

Total granted

$660k
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+29%

Still filing today

72%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • DC
    Dream Center Bismarck
    4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +48%
  • AC
    ANNE CARLSEN CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +27%
  • MO
    Ministry on the Margins
    5× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • DZ
    DAKOTA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +29%
  • TB
    The Banquet
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -48%
  • CH
    CHARLES HALL YOUTH FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
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
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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3
The Open Door

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Benedictine Living Communities - Bismarck Inc Dba St Gabriels Community

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…

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5
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
6
Friends of the Middle Border

Museum/educational center

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7
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Ymca of the Northern Sky

We are dedicated to enhancing the spirit, mind, and body of all persons through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility.

Human Services
9
Second Harvest Northland

End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.

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10
Bountiful Basket Food Shelf of Eastern Carver County

Nourishing neighbors, inspiring hope, and supporting families on their road to self-sufficiency.

Food & Nutrition
11
Family Wellness Bismarck-Mandan Llc

Committed to improving the wellness of families.

Human Services
12
North Dakota Barley Council

To generate funds equitablely from barley producers for the establishment of market development, public relations, promotion and research to benefit barley producers.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOME ON THE RANGE: $30,000 · OtherHOME ON THE RANGEHEAVENS HELPERS SOUP CAFE: $28,000 · OtherHEAVENS HELPERS SOUP CAFEND HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $25,000 · OtherND HUMANITIES COUNCILThe Banquet: $20,000 · OtherThe BanquetCHARLES HALL YOUTH FAMILY SERVICES: $17,500 · OtherHEAVENS HELPERS: $17,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $13,000 · OtherGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $30,000 · OtherGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUSTDAKOTA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · OtherDAKOTA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCCAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS: $25,000 · OtherCAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNSHOPA MOUNTAIN INC: $22,500 · OtherHOPA MOUNTAIN INC+12 more: $95,100 · Other+12 moreDream Center Bismarck: $80,000 · Human ServicesDream Center Bis…CARRIES KIDS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCARRIES KIDS INCDAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH: $10,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTA BOYS AND …MISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY: $118,000 · PhilanthropyMISSOURI SLOPE A…GATEWAY TO SCIENCE CENTER INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureGATEWAY TO …FORT ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFORT ABRAHA…ANNE CARLSEN CENTER: $55,000 · EducationANNE CARLS…BISMARCK LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · EducationBISMARCK L…PRAIRIE LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 · EducationPRAIRIE LE…Ministry on the Margins: $45,500 · ReligionGreat Plains Food Bank: $38,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$348,600Human Services$120,000Philanthropy$118,000Arts & Culture$85,000Education$77,500Religion$45,500Food & Nutrition$38,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSOURI SLOPE AREAWIDE UNITED WAY: $118,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetDream Center Bismarck: $80,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetANNE CARLSEN CENTER: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMinistry on the Margins: $45,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetGATEWAY TO SCIENCE CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFORT ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCARRIES KIDS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetDAKOTA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAPITAL CITY YOUNG GUNS: $25,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetHOPA MOUNTAIN INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Banquet: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHEAVENS HELPERS: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBISMARCK LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBISMARCK CANCER CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRAIRIE LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 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 GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CARRIES KIDS INC ↗
  • 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 DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗

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.

The Tom and Frances L…North Dakota Communit…Midcontinent Foundati…Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Otto Bremer TrustGreat Plains Food BankHauge Family Foundati…Impact FoundationFargo-Moorhead Area F…Aetna Foundation IncCharities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…
The Tom and Frances Leach FoundationND32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Paris Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paris Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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 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.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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