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University of Mary

The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)

$24M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Community Improvement$252kEducation$187kReligion$180kInternational$75kCivil Rights$43kHousing & Shelter$23kArts & Culture$21kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $25,838 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,002,071 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,976,233 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$256M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRE Foundation of Denver$10,000
Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of Phoenix$10,000
Bismarck Mandan Chamber Foundation$5,838
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of Phoenix: $10k → 11%Napa Institute: $6k → 10%Pontifical North American College: $9k → 14%Fellowship of Catholic University Students: $23k → 7%FIRE Foundation of Denver: $10k → 8%Fellowship of Catholic University Students: $55k → 10%Minot Catholic Schools Foundation: $6k → 10%Bismarck Mandan Chamber Foundation: $80k → 10%Diocese of Fargo: $44k → 12%Pontifical North American College: $9k → 14%Fellowship of Catholic University Students: $8k → 7%Minot Catholic Schools Foundation: $6k → 10%Bismarck Mandan Chamber Foundation: $50k → 10%Pontifical North American College: $8k → 14%Minot Catholic Schools Foundation: $6k → 10%Bismarck Mandan Chamber Foundation: $50k → 10%March for Life Education and Defense Fund: $20k → 14%Minot State University: $6k → 10%Light of Christ Catholic Schools of Excellence: $25k → 10%Pontifical North American College: $7k → 14%Minot State University: $6k → 10%Light of Christ Catholic Schools of Excellence: $24k → 10%March for Life Education and Defense Fund: $16k → 14%Minot State University: $6k → 10%Light of Christ Catholic Schools of Excellence: $21k → 10%Pontifical North American Coll: $5k → 14%Bismarck Mandan Chamber Foundation: $20k → 10%March for Life Education and Defense Fund: $8k → 14%Bismarck Mandan Chamber Foundation: $20k → 10%Becket Fund: $10k → 14%Bismarck Mandan Chamber Foundation: $20k → 10%Becket Fund: $10k → 14%St Mary's Central High School: $13k → 10%Light of Christ Catholic Schools of Excellence: $10k → 10%Bismarck Mandan Symphony Orchestra: $8k → 10%Bismarck Mandan Chamber Foundation: $6k → 10%Bismarck Mandan Symphony Orchestra: $6k → 10%Bismarck Mandan Chamber Foundation: $6k → 10%Light of Christ Catholic Schools of Excellence: $5k → 10%Annunciation Monastery: $8k → 10%Benedictine Ministries: $7k → 10%Bismarck Parks & Recreation: $5k → 10%Bismarck Parks & Recreation: $5k → 10%Bismarck Parks & Recreation: $5k → 10%Bismarck Parks & Recreation: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$667k · 10 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$667k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+63%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalCivil RightsHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • TG
    THE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT
    5× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +3%
  • MF
    MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND
    4× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +25%
  • BO
    BISMARCK-MANDAN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • DO
    DIOCESE OF FARGO
    one grant, 2017 · $44k
  • CN
    CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR EDgraduated
    2× · 2018–2020 · $23k · revenue +63%
  • TD
    THE DIOCES OF BISMARCK TRUSTEE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

2
Priests for Life
Youth Development
3
National Catholic Prayer Breakfast Inc

The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast organizes and hosts an annual prayer breakfast in Washington, DC for Roman Catholic clergy and laity across the United States for the purposes of worship and fellowship.

Religion
4
The Diocese of Crookston Catholic Community Foundation

None

Religion
5
The Foundation for the Promotion of Evangelizing Catechesis Inc

To secure and oversee funding to support the renewal of catechesis and evangelization throughout the roman catholic church.

6
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
7
Foundation for Catholic Secondary Education of Greater Grand Rapids Inc

The foundation for catholic secondary education exists to financially support education programs of catholic central high school and west catholic high through tuition assistance, faculty enhancement and program/facilities

Education
8
The Catholic Foundation of Maine

The Catholic Foundation of Maine offers opportunities to charitably invest through donations or gifts to endowments.

Religion
9
The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co

Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.

Religion
10
Northern Michigan Catholic Foundation

The foundation is organized to support financially the spiritual, educational, and social needs of the local roman catholic community within the diocese of gaylord and to provide responsible and effective fundraising, financial management,…

Religion
11
Cardinal Newman Professorship Foundation Inc

Manage assets for the benefit of the chaired professorship in catholic theology at alaska pacific university as provided by the terms of agreement with the corporation of the catholic archbishop of anchorage.

Education
12
Catholics for Catholics

Catholics for Catholics is fighting to bring the Catholic faith back into the public square through rosary rallies, media, political action and more!

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Catholic Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is 31-8 Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS — $95,050 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTSLIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — $84,578 · OtherLIGHT OF CHRIST CATHOLIC SCHOOLSDIOCESE OF FARGO — $44,039 · OtherDIOCESE OF FARGOAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE US — $37,250 · OtherAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE …Bismarck Parks & Recreation — $20,000 · OtherMINOT STATE UNIVERSITY — $18,645 · OtherMINOT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $18,645 · OtherTHE DIOCES OF BISMARCK TRUSTEE INC — $15,000 · OtherST MARYS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL — $13,173 · Other+6 more — $45,507 · Other+6 moreBISMARCK-MANDAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $252,050 · Youth DevelopmentBISMARCK-MANDAN CHAMBER FOUNDATIONTHE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT — $74,958 · InternationalTHE GOD'S …MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND — $43,280 · Civil RightsCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED — $22,500 · Housing & ShelterBISMARCK-MANDAN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $21,000 · Arts & CultureThe Becket Fund — $20,000 · Social Science
Other$391,887Youth Development$252,050International$74,958Civil Rights$43,280Housing & Shelter$22,500Arts & Culture$21,000Social Science$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBISMARCK-MANDAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $252,050 over 9y, 21% of budgetTHE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT — $74,958 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND — $43,280 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED — $22,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBISMARCK-MANDAN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $21,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetThe Becket Fund — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINOT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $18,645 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMinistry on the Margins — $6,586 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NAPA INSTITUTE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget31-8 PROJECT — $5,017 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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 BISMARCK-MANDAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT
  • Who funds MARCH FOR LIFE EDUCATION & DEFENSE FUND
  • Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED
  • Who funds BISMARCK-MANDAN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds The Becket Fund
  • Who funds MINOT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FIRE FOUNDATION OF DENVER
  • Who funds Ministry on the Margins
  • Who funds THE NAPA INSTITUTE
  • Who funds 31-8 PROJECT

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.

North Dakota Community FoundationND17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Dakota Community Foundation · Knights of Columbus · Our Sunday Visitor Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Impactassetsinc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 University of Mary 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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