North Dakota · Nonprofit
BISMARCK MARATHON
BISMARCK MARATHON (North Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,614 to it, the largest being BNSF RAILWAY FOUNDATION ($52,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $265k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $92k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Bismarck Marathon does
Mission
Support and develop amateur athletes/marathon competition. To foster a national and/or international amateur sport competition. Support the race as well as training seminars that educate marathoners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Conducted an annual marathon event which included a marathon, half marathon, marathon relay, 10k and 5k run/walk, 1k motivational mile, 4k dog walk, pub crawl, as well as a free kids mini marathon the night preceding the race with 2,318 registrations. Hosted two running workshops for 75 potential runner/walkers. Provided water stations for approximately 100 local runners in training on public running paths 4x during summer months. Also provide course setup, timing clock and traffic cones to other local charitable organizations for 5k runs througout the year.
$264,692 spentof which $39,578 as grants$128,679 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $264,692.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $96k to $69k (−28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
51% of BISMARCK MARATHON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of BISMARCK MARATHON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BISMARCK MARATHON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BISMARCK MARATHON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BISMARCK MARATHON draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BISMARCK MARATHON has grown faster than half of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BISMARCK MARATHON
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BISMARCK MARATHON: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BISMARCK MARATHON?
- BISMARCK MARATHON (North Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,614 to it, the largest being BNSF RAILWAY FOUNDATION ($52,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BISMARCK MARATHON have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $91,614 in grants to BISMARCK MARATHON, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BISMARCK MARATHON?
- BNSF RAILWAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $52,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BISMARCK MARATHON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing