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North Dakota · Public charity

UND Center for Innovation Foundation

To maintain national leadership in entrepreneur outreach and education, and become the leader in tech entrepreneurship in rural America.

$217k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$22,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$171,841
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$8.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations UND Center for Innovation Foundation 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
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 arriving3$217k67%
FY20237$312k0%
FY20228$220k38%
FY202112$397k83%
FY20206$313k33%
FY201911$543k55%
FY20187$763k86%
FY20171$181kn/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.

Community Improvement$1.1MScience & Tech$937kEducation$696kEmployment$186kYouth Development$15k

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
University of North Dakota$1,711,6268n/a
Jeffrey Donohoe Associates LLC$596,3862n/a
BioScience Assn of ND$107,5792n/a
Three Farm Daughters$38,0003n/a
ELF Technology LLC Exp$38,0003n/a
Fenworks LLC$38,0002n/a
Atlantic Drone Pros$30,0002n/a
Evolve AnalyticsJosh Riedy$24,0012n/a
Krampade LLC (Eric Murphy)$24,0002n/a
Tailorie Inc$24,0002n/a
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All grantees of UND Center for Innovation Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of North Dakota$1,711,6268n/a
Jeffrey Donohoe Associates LLC$596,3862n/a
BioScience Assn of ND$107,5792n/a
Three Farm Daughters$38,0003n/a
ELF Technology LLC Exp$38,0003n/a
Fenworks LLC$38,0002n/a
Atlantic Drone Pros$30,0002n/a
Evolve AnalyticsJosh Riedy$24,0012n/a
Krampade LLC (Eric Murphy)$24,0002n/a
Tailorie Inc$24,0002n/a
Off Price Exchange BTQ Box (Ciara Stockeland)$23,8972n/a
Prairie Grit LLC (Shawn Herrick)$22,8631n/a
Kirkwall Defense$22,5001n/a
ThinAir$22,5001n/a
NewlyNamed$21,5631n/a
Tau Drones Dunlevy$20,0002n/a
Homeland Hemp Co LLC$20,0002n/a
Confetti Kids$19,7642n/a
Getty Box Gizmo$18,0002n/a
Dakota Dons Artisan Waffles$14,7472n/a
Muskie Bacon Lures (Jeff Sprecher)$13,7732n/a
CleanCoil LLC InnovateND$10,5191n/a
Peter Chamberlain$10,1131n/a
Athena Ltd$8,2331n/a
Ultimate Cabs$7,8001n/a
Zen Investors$7,5001n/a
Sundog Mining$6,3251n/a
Brace Cap-Singhal$5,0231n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

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About UND Center for Innovation Foundation

How much does UND Center for Innovation Foundation give?
UND Center for Innovation Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $216,841 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does UND Center for Innovation Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (38%), Science & Tech (32%), Education (24%).
Who are UND Center for Innovation Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of North Dakota ($1.7M), Jeffrey Donohoe Associates LLC ($596k), BioScience Assn of ND ($108k).
Does UND Center for Innovation Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is UND Center for Innovation Foundation based?
UND Center for Innovation Foundation is based in ND.

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 30 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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