· Private foundation
Pfeiffer 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 FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $600k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northern State University Foundation | $500,000 |
| Inadcure Foundation Inc | $200,000 |
| Aberdeen Area Veterans inc | $200,000 |
| Raise The Barr | $100,000 |
| Aberdeen Hockey Association | $50,000 |
| Media Ladies Conquering Cancer | $50,000 |
| Aberdeen Catholic School System | $36,605 |
| Raise The Barr | $25,000 |
| Old Cronies | $15,000 |
| Make-A-Wish South Dakota & Montana | $10,800 |
| Academic Athletic Oportunities | $10,000 |
| The Michelle Young Foundation | $10,000 |
| Gopher Wrestling Club | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Northern State University Foundation | $3,400 |
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 (FY24–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 12 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, 13% 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
- RTRAISE THE BARR2× · 2024–2025 · $140k · revenue +41%
- OCOLD CRONIES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $25k
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA2× · 2024–2025 · $21k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- APAberdeen Public School Districtone grant, 2024 · $24k
- FTFirst Tee Programone grant, 2024 · $20k
- SSDSUone grant, 2024 · $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.
To champion the economic health and vitality of our community and the greater Aberdeen area while serving as the premier advocate for our members.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Engage in those activities which support and assist in the development and advancement of Bismarck State College.
End hunger together.
The Dubuque Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will lead tourism destination promotion and development to enhance and expand the Dubuque Area experience.
The Mankato Area Foundation is a trusted resource that connects donors with causes they care about, provides funding to enhance our region and serves as a collaborative community partner.
To strengthen the capacity of individuals and families to improve their quality of life.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
Creating vitality in the heart of the city.
Recruit, retain, expand, and provide entrepreneurial support to enhance economic opportunity in Aberdeen and our surrounding region.
The Alamance Community College Foundation exists to aid students with a demonstrated financial need in reaching their educational goals, while supporting the mission of ACC.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of South Dakota & Montana and the most unlike its peers is Gopher Wrestling Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 29 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 Northern State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds INADCURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Area Veterans Inc ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE BARR ↗
- Who funds MEDIA LADIES CONQUERING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA ↗
- Who funds Aspire Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Gopher Wrestling Club ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ABERDEEN AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Harbor ↗
- Who funds MOCCASIN CREEK COUNTRY CLUB ↗
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: South Dakota Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Avera Health · Sanford Group Return · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pfeiffer 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.