How much does The Devils Lake Area Foundation give?

The Devils Lake Area Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $168,377, out of $194,740 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does The Devils Lake Area Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Recreation & Sports (9%).

Who are The Devils Lake Area Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Devils Lake Public Schools ($265k), Senior Meals & Services Inc ($106k), Lake Region State College ($57k).

Does The Devils Lake Area Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Devils Lake Area Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Devils Lake Youth Activities Assn.

Where is The Devils Lake Area Foundation based?

The Devils Lake Area Foundation is based in ND.

The Devils Lake Area Foundation

The Devils Lake Area Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

The Devils Lake Area Foundation

Distribute income earned on the organizations assets to charitable organizations in the devils lake, nd area.

$195k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$53k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$334kFood & Nutrition$106kRecreation & Sports$55kArts & Culture$46kHuman Services$32kMembership Benefit$24kHealth$7kEmployment$6kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 12 grants below total $168,377, the rows itemized in this filing. The $194,740 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,363 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $41k
$10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$50k–250k1 grant · $53k

$10,230

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DEVILS LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS	$52,901
SENIOR MEALS & SERVICE	$28,348
LAKE REGION STATE COLLEGE	$13,152
DEVILS LAKE PARK DISTRICT	$11,614
LAKE REGION HERITAGE CENTER	$11,316
LAKE REGION PUBLIC LIBRARY	$10,230
RAMSEY COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION	$8,373
NORTH DAKOTA DISTRICT COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD	$7,500
LAKE REGION FIGURE SKATING CLUB	$6,963
ST OLAF LUTHERAN CHURCH	$6,657
HOPE CENTER	$5,779
DEVILS LAKE BLUE LINE CLUB	$5,544

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$573k · 10 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$573k

$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

Still filing today

40%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Recreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

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SENIOR MEALS & SERVICES INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $106k · revenue +40%
LR
Lake Region Heritage Center Inc
4× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +52%
LR
LAKE REGION FIGURE SKATING CLUB
2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +2%

Funded once

SA
SAFE ALTERNTVS FOR ABUSED FAMILIES
one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
LR
LAKE REGION JOINT TRAINING CENTER
one grant, 2024 · $6k
LR
LAKE REGION CORPORATION
one grant, 2021 · $5k

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

04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 16 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

6/6

Grantees still filing

3/6

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$553,214Arts & Culture$35,536Recreation & Sports$25,584

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Devils Lake Youth Activities AssnND15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Devils Lake Area Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Devils Lake Area Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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