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Sanford Health Foundation North

To inspire philanthropy to advance the mission of sanford health, the premier rural health system in the u.s., and related exempt entities. 100% of donor dollars fuel local priorities to care, comfort and cure.

$4.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$21,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,989,585
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$107M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Sanford Health Foundation North 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
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving11$4.6M9%
FY20239$6.1M0%
FY202211$5.2M18%
FY202111$5.6M27%
FY20209$5.7M33%
FY20197$4.6M43%
FY20186$3.0M0%
FY20177$2.7Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$36MScience & Tech$1.6MEducation$64k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sanford$24,989,5148n/a
Sanford Research North Formerly Known as Neuropsychiatric Research Institute$6,152,8196n/a
Sanford$2,125,2806n/a
Sanford$1,628,7978n/a
Sanford$892,1744n/a
Sanford$376,0335n/a
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society$270,74250%
Sanford$254,5935n/a
Sanford Health Foundation North$130,15311%
Sanford$117,4253n/a
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All grantees of Sanford Health Foundation North by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sanford$24,989,5148n/a
Sanford Research North Formerly Known as Neuropsychiatric Research Institute$6,152,8196n/a
Sanford$2,125,2806n/a
Sanford$1,628,7978n/a
Sanford$892,1744n/a
Sanford$376,0335n/a
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society$270,74250%
Sanford$254,5935n/a
Sanford Health Foundation North$130,15311%
Sanford$117,4253n/a
Sanford$72,7504n/a
Sanford Mayville Medical Center$68,3502n/a
Sanford$64,1473n/a
North Dakota State University$56,9003n/a
F-M Ambulance Service Inc$31,96540%
Sanford$30,6281n/a
Sanford Medical Center Fargo$14,5841n/a
Sanford Healthcare Accessories LLC$12,4101n/a
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College$7,5001n/a

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.

American Heart Association IncTX16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Sanford Health Foundation West · Sanford Health Foundation · Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation Inc · American Cancer Society Inc

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 Sanford Health Foundation North

How much does Sanford Health Foundation North give?
Sanford Health Foundation North reported 11 grants totaling $4,581,686 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sanford Health Foundation North fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (95%), Science & Tech (4%), Education (0%).
Who are Sanford Health Foundation North's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sanford ($25M), Sanford Research North Formerly Known as Neuropsychiatric Research Institute ($6.2M), Sanford ($2.1M).
Does Sanford Health Foundation North fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sanford Health Foundation North?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Heart Association Inc, Sanford Health Foundation West, Sanford Health Foundation.
Where is Sanford Health Foundation North based?
Sanford Health Foundation North is based in SD.

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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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