· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $506k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANFORD MEDICAL CENTER FARGO | $2,989,585 |
| SANFORD RESEARCH NORTH | $1,007,928 |
| SANFORD MEDICAL CENTER | $204,270 |
| SANFORD HEALTH NETWORK NORTH | $201,162 |
| SANFORD HEALTH OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA | $100,100 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $21,500 |
| THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY | $19,452 |
| SANFORD HOME HEALTH | $13,850 |
| MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD | $7,500 |
| F-M AMBULANCE SERVICE INC | $6,598 |
| SANFORD RESEARCH | $5,990 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSANFORD8× · 2017–2024 · $25M
- SRSANFORD RESEARCH NORTH FORMERLY KNOWN AS NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE6× · 2019–2024 · $6.2M
- SSANFORD6× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M
Funded once
- SHSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTHone grant, 2020 · $130k · revenue -1%
- SSANFORDone grant, 2017 · $31k
- SMSANFORD MEDICAL CENTER FARGOone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sanford Health Foundation North funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sanford Health Foundation North. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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