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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
2
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.

Animals$2.6MPhilanthropy$926kHuman Services$98kEducation$92kArts & Culture$42kHealth$19kFood & Nutrition$15kCrime & Legal$15kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$786k
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.9M
$500,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greater Minot Zoological Society$2,500,000
American Endowment Foundation$900,000
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation$500,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Minot Family YMCA$3,926
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Newaygo County Compassion Home: $6k → 13%Newaygo County Compassion Home: $3k → 13%True North Community Services: $20k → 13%True North Community Services: $11k → 13%True North Community Services: $9k → 13%Minot Social Club for Exceptional Persons Inc: $5k → 10%True North Community Services: $9k → 13%Minot Social Club for Exceptional Persons Inc: $5k → 10%Second Story: $5k → 10%True North Community Services: $8k → 13%Minot Social Club for Exceptional Persons Inc: $5k → 10%True North Community Services: $6k → 13%Newaygo County Compassion Home: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 25 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
25

Total granted

$3.6M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+41%

Still filing today

68%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • TR
    Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation
    5× · 2019–2023 · $517k · revenue +139%
  • PA
    PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213
    6× · 2017–2022 · $89k · revenue +432%
  • TC
    TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES
    6× · 2017–2022 · $63k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • MM
    MINOT MODEL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • PP
    PANDA PAWS RESCUE
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -90%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota (Ragom) Inc

Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…

Animals
2
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
3
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
4
Midlands Humane Society

To protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.

Animals
5
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter

Yellowstone valley animal shelter is dedicated to strengthening the human-animal bond by providing compassionate and high-quality care, education, and resources to the community.

Animals
6
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
7
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
8
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
9
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals
10
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
11
Shelter From the Storm Animal Rescue Inc

Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…

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12
Loving All Animals Inc

To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bellwether Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsPregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 31. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr11%3%5–10yr13%26%10–20yr12%19%20–35yr22%32%35–55yr25%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr11%0%5–10yr13%8%10–20yr12%52%20–35yr22%35%35–55yr25%5%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/39
the rest of the field
6%
381/5,935

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
28/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER MINOT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $2,529,500 · AnimalsGREATER MINOT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY+5 more — $49,540 · AnimalsAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $900,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOU…+2 more — $26,145 · PhilanthropyTheodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation — $516,500 · OtherTheodore Roosevelt M…FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH — $60,400 · OtherFIRST LUTHERAN CHURC…MINOT STATE UNIVERSITY — $37,400 · Other+29 more — $212,739 · Other+29 moreTRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES — $62,663 · Human ServicesMINOT SOCIAL CLUB FOR EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesNEWAYGO COUNTY COMPASSION HOME FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL — $14,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 — $89,111 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $3,180 · EducationOUR RESCUE — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMINOT SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePrairie Public Broadcasting Inc — $2,000 · Arts & CultureLONGS PEAK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $7,645 · HealthALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC — $6,145 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 · Health
Animals$2,579,040Philanthropy$926,145Other$827,039Human Services$98,163Education$92,291Arts & Culture$42,000Health$18,790

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER MINOT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $2,529,500 over 4y, 75% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $900,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetWORLD VISION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFremont Area Community Foundation — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrairie Public Broadcasting Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIE GRIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAKOTA HOPE CLINIC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Minot Junior Golf Ass…Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Xcel Energy FoundationIchf FoundationMinot Community Found…North Dakota Communit…Inspiritus Community …Midcontinent Foundati…Lynn & Helen N Clark …The Longmont Communit…Fremont Area Communit…Pedigree Foundation
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

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 Ronald and Duska LaCount 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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