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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $25,838, the rows itemized in this filing. The $24,002,071 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,976,233 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 $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

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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

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.

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.

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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 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.

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5
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
6
Catholics for Choice

Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…

Civil Rights
7
The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co

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

Religion
8
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
9
The Diocese of Crookston Catholic Community Foundation

None

Religion
10
Paulist Press Inc

The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…

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11
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
12
Vocation Ministry

Vocation Ministry's mission is to equip the Church once again to awaken the call of a vocation within the human heart by creating an environment that encourages men and women to say "Yes" to God's call in their lives to the priesthood,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Catholic Community Foundation; 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 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. 12 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $18,645 · OtherMINOT STATE UNIVERSITY: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBISMARCK-MANDAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $252,050 over 9y, 37% 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
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 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 ↗

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.

North Dakota Communit…Knights of ColumbusOur Sunday Visitor IncKnights of Columbus C…ImpactassetsincRenaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…
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

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 University of Mary funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of Mary. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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.

    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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