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William Langer and Susan Flickinger Gokey Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$143k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
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.

Health$378kArts & Culture$142kRecreation & Sports$88kHuman Services$20kYouth Development$15kEducation$8kPhilanthropy$8k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Trinity 1922 Foundation$50,000
Taube Art Museum$35,000
Minot Family YMCA$20,000
Magic City Figure Skating Club$10,000
Dakota Territory Air Museum$10,000
Inspiritus Community Health Foundation$7,500
Minot Swim Club Inc$5,000
Minot Rifle and Pistol Club$2,500
Minot Area Sportsman's Club$2,500
MSU Foundation$650
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%Trinity 1922 Foundation: $50k → 10%Trinity 1922 Foundation: $50k → 10%Trinity 1922 Foundation: $50k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of William Langer and Susan Flickinger Gokey Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in ND; by stated purpose, 96%.

William Langer and Susan Flickinger Gokey Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$467k · 8 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$467k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

63%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LA
    Lillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art
    3× · 2021–2024 · $73k · revenue +18%
  • MC
    MAGIC CITY FIGURE SKATING CLUB
    3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +4%
  • MS
    MINOT SWIM CLUB INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MA
    MINOT AREA YOUTH SKATING ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +64%
  • TH
    Trinity Health Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • RM
    Rinat Mouzafarov Classical Ballet Company
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Minot Indoor Rodeo Inc

Our sole purpose is to provide funding to improve, maintain, and operate the ymca of minot, nd and its triangle y camp.

Recreation & Sports
2
Minot Hockey Boosters Inc

To promote skating and hockey; to promote good sportsmanship; to promote a better understanding of hockey; to encourage participation, support and attendance at hockey games and events, particularly by the young people in minot, north…

Recreation & Sports
3
Minot Ys Mens

To support triangle y camp, the minot family ymca and their programs.

Youth Development
4
Minnewawa Sportsmen's Club Inc

Promote shooting sports, gun safety, and sportsmanship and support area youth programs.

Philanthropy
5
Burnsville-Minnesota Valley Figure Skating Club

To encourage the instruction, practice & advancement of the members in the discipline of figure skating. To encourage the fraternal feeling among ice skaters & cooperate to produce amateur events.

Recreation & Sports
6
Lake Minnetonka Figure Skating Club

Promote the sport of Figure Skating

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7
Minot Area Youth Sportsman Club Inc

To provide a charitable youth sports shooting program for youth ages 12 thorugh 18 years old in order to teach youth the value of character, leadership, perseverance, safety, teamwork and civic mindedness.

Youth Development
8
Mandan Baseball Club Inc

To operate baseball program for the benefit of youth and their families so they may enjoy growth through recreational and competitive baseball.

Youth Development
9
Missoula Aquatic Club Inc

The mission of the Missoula Aquatic Club is for swimmers of all ages and abilities to perform at their personal best in an environment that is educational, supportive and fun. Through our core values of teamwork, sportsmanship, health and…

Recreation & Sports
10
Museum of North Idaho Inc

The museum of north idaho preserves and illuminates our past to inspire our future.

Arts & Culture
11
Aspen Figure Skating Club

Skating instruction for adults and children

Recreation & Sports
12
Tomah Youth Hockey Club Inc

To promote the sport of ice hockey and educate participants while instilling the importance of sportsmanship and fair play.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Minot Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trinity 1922 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY 1922 FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Human ServicesTRINITY 1922 FOUNDATIONLillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art: $72,920 · OtherLillian and Coleman Taube Museum of ArtTrinity Health Foundation: $50,000 · OtherTrinity Health FoundationTaube Art Museum: $35,000 · OtherTaube Art MuseumIndividual grant recipient: $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINOT: $20,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINOTMINOT SWIM CLUB INC: $10,000 · OtherRinat Mouzafarov Classical Ballet Company: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $22,150 · Other+7 moreMINOT AREA YOUTH SKATING ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsMINOT AREA Y…MAGIC CITY FIGURE SKATING CLUB: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsMAGIC CITY F…MINOT RIFLE AND PISTOL CLUB: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsDAKOTA TERRITORY AIR MUSEUM: $17,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureINSPIRITUS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyLOUISIANA LIONS EYE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health
Human Services$300,000Other$252,070Recreation & Sports$75,000Arts & Culture$22,500Philanthropy$7,500Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRINITY 1922 FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetLillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art: $72,920 over 3y, 22% of budgetMAGIC CITY FIGURE SKATING CLUB: $22,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINOT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDAKOTA TERRITORY AIR MUSEUM: $17,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMINOT SWIM CLUB INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetINSPIRITUS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINOT RIFLE AND PISTOL CLUB: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLOUISIANA LIONS EYE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Minot Community FoundationND13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Minot Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 William Langer and Susan Flickinger Gokey Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Langer and Susan Flickinger Gokey Foundation Inc. 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
    1report 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 22 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-PF 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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