· Private foundation
The Roers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sanford Health Foundation | $25,000 |
| The Jeremiah Program | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Roers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in ND; by stated purpose, 75%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAM6× · 2019–2025 · $225k · revenue +118%
- NDNorth Dakota State University Foundation5× · 2017–2021 · $64k · revenue +78%
- UWUnited Way of Cass-Clay4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NDone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -100%
- YOYMCA of Cass Clayone grant, 2021 · $10k
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINOTone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
The Northern State University Foundation is dedicated to securing the future of Northern State University. Its purpose is to solicit and administer funds and to pursue other activities to advance this goal.
End hunger together.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Support Policy that benefits North Dakota Soybean growers through farmer-led advocacy and partnerships.
To put Christian principles into practices through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
NDACo provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.
The mission of the YMCA of the North is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind & body for all. The Y is a cause-driven organization that strengthens communities through youth development,…
Lss housing will support the continued vitality of north dakota communities by providing housing and housing-related services.
The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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.
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTH ↗
- Who funds United Way of Cass-Clay ↗
- Who funds YMCA of the Northern Sky ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINOT ↗
- Who funds NDSU Research & Technology Park ↗
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: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Midcontinent Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Roers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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