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Scheels All Sports Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| West Fargo Youth Baseball | $278,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 22 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NDNorth Dakota State University Foundation2× · 2020–2021 · $2.1M · revenue +245%
- HBHARRISBURG BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $396k · revenue +5%
- MYMALCOLM YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2023 · $371k · revenue +31% · 38% of their budget
Funded once
- HOHospice of the Red River Valleyone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +13%
- RRRed River Marksmanship Centerone grant, 2023 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $495k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Little league baseball for youth
To operate baseball program for the benefit of youth and their families so they may enjoy growth through recreational and competitive baseball.
The purpose for which this association is organized is to foster, encourage and promote the development of the soccer skills of players living in central north dakota under the age of 20.
The minnetonka diamond club seeks to encourage the minnetonka community to enjoy tonka diamond sports, teach young players and coaches how to play and enjoy diamond sports, and to enhance tonka baseball and softball facilities.
Operate and program an ice arena providing public and private ice rental facilities to the community and region with an emphasis on serving and growing youth ice sports.
Provide the opportunity for girls ages 4 through 19 to learn and play the game of fast pitch softball
The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.
To put Christian principles into practices through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Our mission is to provide opportunities for kids, regardless of their abilities, to compete and experience the joy and benefits that come from playing sports.
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
The purpose of the Foundation is to pursue unique fundraising opportunities and increase private sector support to further the development, growth, and excellence of the Park District in providing modernized facilities and quality…
To organize and govern youth baseball and softball in North Liberty, Iowa as a non-profit, volunteer run, development, recreational league.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anne Carlsen Center and the most unlike its peers is Let's Skate. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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. 39 of the 73 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Red River Valley ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR FALLS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MALCOLM YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Sonshine ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEROES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Minot Gun Club Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC ↗
- Who funds MINOT PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UND Alumni Association and Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE INC ↗
- Who funds MOORHEAD YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN YOUTH COMPLEX ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY POP WARNER FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Sanford Group Return · North Dakota Community Foundation · Otter Tail Corporation Foundation · The Barry Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dakota Medical Charities
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 Scheels All Sports 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.
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.
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