· Community foundation
West Central Initiative
Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
Provide quality childcare services at a central facility in the fosston, mn community. childcare is desperately needed in our area.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.
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…
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.
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.
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…
To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
How this is measured
200 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization West Central Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Central Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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