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Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.9M
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$500,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$2,500,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20234$3.0M0%
FY202221$175k48%
FY202121$118k29%
FY202017$101k35%
FY201918$97k50%
FY201812$91k50%
FY201713$85kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Animals$2.6MPhilanthropy$926kArts & Culture$559kEducation$142kHuman Services$99kReligion$60kHealth$54kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
UT
CO
TN
NC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Minot Zoological Society$2,529,500475%
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation$516,50053%
Prodeo Academy Charter School #4213$89,11160%
Truenorth Community Services$62,66360%
First Lutheran Church$60,4004n/a
Minot State University$37,4004n/a
Our Rescue$30,00020%
Bellwether Foundation$22,14562%
Minot Social Club for Exceptional Persons Inc$20,00043%
Souris Valley Humane Society Inc$16,30424%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Minot Zoological Society: $2,529,500 over 4y, 75% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation: $516,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetProdeo Academy Charter School #4213: $89,111 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTruenorth Community Services: $62,663 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOur Rescue: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBellwether Foundation: $22,145 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMinot Social Club for Exceptional Persons Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSouris Valley Humane Society Inc: $16,304 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetDomestic Abuse Project Inc: $14,654 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNewaygo County Compassion Home for the Terminally Ill: $14,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Minot: $11,426 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMinot Symphony Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCan Do Canines: $9,163 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTurtle Mountain Animal Rescue: $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHairball Haven: $9,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPanda Paws Rescue: $8,073 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLongs Peak Hospital Foundation: $7,645 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetThe Inn Between of Longmont Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLongmont Humane Society Inc: $7,163 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVetpaw Inc: $7,082 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Boulder Valley: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHand2hand: $5,145 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNccs - Housing Families First Nonprofit Housing Corporation: $3,538 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrairie Grit Adaptive Sports: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPrairie Public Broadcasting Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDakota Hope Clinic: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Minot Junior Golf Association IncND22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Minot Junior Golf Association Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ichf Foundation · Minot Community Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Inspiritus Community Health Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · The Longmont Community Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · Pedigree 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.

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About Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation

How much does Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation give?
Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $3,908,926 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Animals (57%), Philanthropy (20%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Greater Minot Zoological Society ($2.5M), Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation ($517k), Prodeo Academy Charter School #4213 ($89k).
Does Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Minot Junior Golf Association Inc, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
Where is Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation based?
Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation is based in ND.

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 53 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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