· Public charity
Williston Convention and Visitors Bureau
To improve the quality of life in Williston by providing and developing Williston as a destination for business and leisure travel, group tours and conventions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $289,333 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $323,834 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,501 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $241k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Williston Community Builders | $83,333 |
| Williston Parks and Rec | $55,000 |
| Coyote Clay Target League | $52,500 |
| Williston State College Foundation | $50,000 |
| Upper Missouri Valley Fair | $25,000 |
| Williston Downtowners Association | $8,500 |
| Williston High School | $8,000 |
| Williston Basin Curling Club | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +69% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- WCWILLISTON COMMUNITY BUILDERS3× · 2022–2024 · $251k · revenue +84%
- UMUPPER MISSOURI VALLEY FAIR ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +409%
- CCCOYOTE CLAY TARGET LEAGUE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $103k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CBCOYOTE BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TCThe City of Willistonone grant, 2021 · $30k
- FBFort Buford State Historic Siteone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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To advance, promote, and improve all aspects of the williston public school system, its students, former students, teachers, employees, and to provide for a forum for the reflection of the sentiments of the alumni and friends of the…
To promote the Wahpeton Breckenridge area through the enhancement of community growth and business development.
Support winona state university athletics
Wissahickon skating club, a nonprofit corporation that operates an ice skating rink in the chestnut hill section of philadelphia, pennsylvania, was formed for charitable and educational activities for its members and the surrounding…
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A membership organization which provides social and recreational activities for it's members, their families and guests.
Economic development in the watertown, south dakota area.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Williston Downtowners Association and the most unlike its peers is Upper Missouri Valley Fair Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 26 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
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 WILLISTON COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds UPPER MISSOURI VALLEY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COYOTE CLAY TARGET LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS AND FRIENDS OF THE OLD ARMORY OF WILLISTON INC ↗
- Who funds WILLISTON DOWNTOWNERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILLISTON SEA LIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TETON BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WILLISTON BASIN CURLING CLUB ↗
- Who funds Williston Basin Skating Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Williston Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
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: American Legion 37 Edgar M Boyd · Buck and Lois Scheele Foundation · Ardean & Colleen Aafedt Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Williston Convention and Visitors Bureau 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.
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