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Williston Community Builders

The mission of WILLISTON COMMUNITY BUILDERS is to spark people to action to meet the needs of their community and link them together with donor's philanthropic interests.

$219k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Arts & Culture$100kHealth$93kEducation$17kInternational$16kCommunity Improvement$10kCivil Rights$7k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $12,082 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $218,966 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $206,884 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.

$12,082
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$12,082
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 3%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 3%OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

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Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce

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

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Williston Community Builders

The mission of williston community builders is to spark people to action to meet the needs of their community and link them together with donor's philanthropic interests. by developing, constructing, and promoting growth and forward…

Recreation & Sports
3
Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area

4
Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce

The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.

5
Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote economic growth, tourism and leadership development in the city of mineral wells, texas, and surrounding areas

6
West Fargo Rural Fire Department

Fire Protection

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is an independent, member-supported organization, which exists to promote a positive business environment that contributes to the community amd economic vitality of the androscoggin county region.through networking events,…

8
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
9
Williston Central Christian Academy Inc

Helping equip students to embrace truth, strive for academic excellence and model Christian behavior in their home,community and culture for Christ. The ultimate goal is to guide students to embrace a Biblical world view,embracing…

Education
10
Downtown Sioux Falls

Downtown Sioux Falls boldly leads the downtown community by championing diverse experiences, economic growth, and a healthy environment.

11
New Ulm Chamber of Commerce

To promote commerce within the city of new ulm and surrounding area.

12
El Dorado Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the el dorado chamber of commerce is to enhance and develop the economic vitality of business through leadership, education, advocacy, and relationship development.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Williston Trinity Christian School and the most unlike its peers is Pur International Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Williston Area Chamber of Commerce — $100,000 · OtherWilliston Area Chamber of CommercePUR INTERNATIONAL INC — $15,500 · OtherPUR INTERNATIONAL INCWILLISTON TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $12,082 · OtherWILLISTON TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $5,145 · OtherOpportunity Foundation Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesOpportunity Foundation …MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $32,500 · HealthMERCY MEDICAL FOUND…CONNECTUS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthCONNECTUS FOUNDATIO…WILLISTON DOWNTOWNERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementFAMILY CRISIS SHELTER INC — $6,595 · Civil Rights
Other$132,727Human Services$50,000Health$42,500Community Improvement$10,000Civil Rights$6,595

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWilliston Area Chamber of Commerce — $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetOpportunity Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $32,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCONNECTUS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWILLISTON DOWNTOWNERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS SHELTER INC — $6,595 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $5,145 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Williston Community Builders 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Williston Community Builders?

    Find your warmest path to Williston Community Builders 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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