Skip to content
Ronald and Duska LaCount Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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%Second Story: $5k → 10%True North Community Services: $8k → 13%Minot Social Club for Exceptional Persons Inc: $5k → 10%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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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

  • MM
    MINOT MODEL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • PP
    PANDA PAWS RESCUE
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -86%
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
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,…

—
12
Loving All Animals Inc

To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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 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
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.

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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
    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.

    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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Ronald and Duska LaCount Family’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home