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Valley City - Barnes County Development Corporatio

To promote economic development in the City of Valley City and surrounding Barnes County area.

$593k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$338k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$925kRecreation & Sports$809kEducation$351kEmployment$281kPhilanthropy$135kEnvironment$44kHuman Services$39kHealth$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $503,844, the rows itemized in this filing. The $592,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $88,656 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

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $338k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MALACH USA LLP$337,500
VCSU Foundation$50,000
Wonder World Recycling Center LLC$25,000
St Catherine School$25,000
South Central Regional Council$22,040
Valley City Parks and Recreation$19,304
Valley Recycling Center$15,000
Sheyenne Valley Community Foundatio$10,000
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%South Central Dakota Regional Council: $22k → 11%South Central Dakota Regional Council: $22k → 11%South Central Dakota Regional Council: $22k → 11%MALACH USA LLP: $338k → 12%South Central Dakota Regional Council: $22k → 11%City of Valley City: $165k → 12%South Central Regional Council: $22k → 11%FMG Investments LLC: $150k → 12%Sheyenne Valley Area Career and Technology Center: $142k → 12%Valley City Parks and Recreation: $108k → 12%Valley City State University: $100k → 12%Valley City Parks and Recreation: $100k → 12%Valley City Parks and Recreation: $100k → 12%Valley City Parks and Recreation: $100k → 12%Sheyenne Valley Area Career and Technology Center: $100k → 12%Valley City Parks and Recreation: $100k → 12%City of Valley City: $70k → 12%Valley City Parks and Recreation: $67k → 12%Valley City Parks and Recreation: $50k → 12%VCSU Foundation: $50k → 12%Valley City State University: $50k → 12%Valley City Parks and Recreation: $50k → 12%Sheyenne Valley National Scenic Byway: $31k → 12%Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation: $30k → 12%Malach USA LLP: $30k → 12%Barnes County Park District: $29k → 12%Sheyenne Valley National Scenic Byway: $29k → 12%Wonder World Recycling Center LLC: $25k → 12%St Catherine School: $25k → 12%Sheyenne Valley Area Career and Tech Center: $24k → 12%Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation: $20k → 12%Valley Radiator & Recycling: $20k → 12%Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce: $20k → 12%Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation: $20k → 12%Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce: $20k → 12%City County Health District: $20k → 12%Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation: $20k → 12%Valley City State University: $20k → 12%Valley City State University: $20k → 12%Valley City Parks and Recreation: $19k → 12%Sheyenne Valley National Scenic Byway: $17k → 12%Sheyenne Valley National Scenic Byway: $17k → 12%Sheyenne Valley National Scenic Byway: $17k → 12%Sheyenne Valley Area Career and Technology Center: $16k → 12%Valley City Public Schools: $15k → 12%Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation: $15k → 12%Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation: $15k → 12%Valley Recycling Center: $15k → 12%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 11 repeat orgs$698k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$1.8M
$261k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-52%
+35%

Still filing today

27%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • VC
    VALLEY CITY PARK DISTRICT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $694k
  • SV
    Sheyenne Valley Area Career and Technology Center
    4× · 2018–2023 · $281k
  • CO
    City of Valley City
    2× · 2023–2024 · $235k

Funded once

  • FI
    FMG Investments LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
  • MU
    Malach USA LLP
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • VT
    Valley Twisters Gymnastics Club Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +35%
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
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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2
Cozad Development Corporation

Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE

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3
Stanley Volunteer Rural Fire Association

Provide fire protection to rural fire district in stanley nd area.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce

The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.

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5
The Valley Child Development Center Inc

The provision of education and care of children in a child-care facility serving Red Cloud, Nebraska and the greater Webster County, Nebraska community.

Human Services
6
Greater Loup Valley Activities
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7
Parkston Area Development Corporation

Provide economic opportunities for the city of parkston, sd

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8
Wahpeton Breckenridge Area Chamber

To promote the Wahpeton Breckenridge area through the enhancement of community growth and business development.

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9
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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10
Red River Valley Athletics Inc

Provide gymnastics programs for youth from preschool to competition level

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11
Campbell County Arts Council Inc

Public service of the arts for the Campbell County, SD, community.

Arts & Culture
12
Vermillion Area Chamber of Commerce and Development Company

To promote and develop economic growth for the city of vermillion, sd.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wimbledon Child Care Center. 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

10 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. 10 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VALLEY CITY PARK DISTRICT: $693,804 · OtherVALLEY CITY PARK DISTRICTValley City - Barnes County Development Corporatio: $337,500 · OtherValley City - Barnes County Development CorporatioSheyenne Valley Area Career and Technology Center: $281,004 · OtherSheyenne Valley Area Career and Technology CenterCity of Valley City: $235,000 · OtherCity of Valley CityVALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY: $190,000 · OtherVALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITYFMG Investments LLC: $150,000 · OtherFMG Investments LLC+18 more: $385,715 · Other+18 moreSHEYENNE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $135,000 · PhilanthropySHEYENNE RIVER VALLEY SCENIC BYWAY ASSOCIATION: $110,800 · EducationSOUTH CENTRAL DAKOTA REGIONAL COUNCIL: $110,200 · Community ImprovementValley Twisters Gymnastics Club Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,273,023Philanthropy$135,000Education$110,800Community Improvement$110,200Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetValley City - Barnes County Development Corporatio: $337,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetSHEYENNE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL DAKOTA REGIONAL COUNCIL: $110,200 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetValley City Area Chamber of Commerce: $62,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetVALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetValley Twisters Gymnastics Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetValley City Hockey & Figure Skating Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetFraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #2192: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 Valley City - Barnes County Development Corporatio ↗
  • Who funds SHEYENNE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHEYENNE RIVER VALLEY SCENIC BYWAY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL DAKOTA REGIONAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Valley Twisters Gymnastics Club Inc ↗
  • Who funds Valley City Hockey & Figure Skating Club Inc ↗
  • Who funds Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #2192 ↗
  • Who funds Wimbledon Child Care Center ↗

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.

Sheyenne Valley Commu…
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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 Valley City - Barnes County Development Corporatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valley City - Barnes County Development Corporatio. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    Find your warmest path to Valley City - Barnes County Development Corporatio through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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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