· Community foundation
West Central Initiative
Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 185 grants below total $5,286,099 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,298,386 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,012,287 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 $10k39 grants · $277k
- $10k–50k116 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOORHEAD CENTER MALL DEVELOPMENT LLC | $199,990 |
| BROADWAY WELDING INC | $199,990 |
| STERLING DEVELOPMENT GROUP FOUR LLC | $199,900 |
| SNIRTSTOPPER LLC | $197,538 |
| AMERICAN SPORTS OUTFITTERS LLC | $160,000 |
| LAU-GILBERTSON PROPERTIES LLC | $158,858 |
| ATKINSON RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $144,415 |
| DOUGLAS COUNTY SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT (SWCD) | $140,904 |
| CITY OF PELICAN RAPIDS | $136,786 |
| VALLEY HARDWOOD SUPPLY | $135,000 |
| MORRIS AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT #2769 | $109,916 |
| GUSTAV L HANDEGARD AMERICAN #181 | $100,000 |
| HBOO PROPERTIES LLC | $91,000 |
| PERHAM-DENT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT #549 | $85,118 |
| DOUGLAS COUNTY CAR CARE PROGRAM | $67,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
182 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2025, 95 since wound down; 89 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EMENTERPRISE MINNESOTA4× · 2017–2021 · $586k · revenue +17%
- PAPERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $457k · revenue +37% · 33% of their budget
- PRPRAIRIE ROSE AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH INNOVATION & EDUCATION4× · 2022–2025 · $331k · revenue +119% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- DLDETROIT LAKES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $752k
- PCPOPE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +20% · 84% of their budget
- AEALEXANDRIA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $453k · revenue -75% · 85% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the minnesota agri-growth council is to advocate for minnesota's food and agriculture industry by serving as a unified voice and promoting relationships with allied industries.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…
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…
Provide quality childcare services at a central facility in the fosston, mn community. childcare is desperately needed in our area.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…
The association of minnesota counties is a voluntary non-partisan statewide organization that assists the state's 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of minnesota.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Region Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Browns Valley Food Shelf Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
200 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 200 of the 720 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ENTERPRISE MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds POPE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE ROSE AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH INNOVATION & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DOUGLAS & POPE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Barry Foundation · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · Lake Region Arts Council · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · St Mary's Regional Health Center · Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust · The Lundeen Foundation · Innovis Health LLC · Frank W Veden Charitable Trust · C K Blandin Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Dakota Medical Foundation
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 West Central Initiative 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.
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.