North Dakota · Nonprofit
DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED
DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED (North Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,417 to it, the largest being THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATION INC ($49,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- North Dakota Humanities Councilshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Northwest North Dakota Community Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Missouri Slope Areawide United Wayshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
42% of DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $16k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED’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
DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% — 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
100% of DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- North Dakota Humanities Councilshared funderslocalportfolio matchND · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest North Dakota Community Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchND · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Slope Areawide United Wayshared funderslocalND · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · funds 18 organizations near you
- Mary Chilton DAR Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nac Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Midwest Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whitmore Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sheldon F Reese Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED?
- DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED (North Dakota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,417 to it, the largest being THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATION INC ($49,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $49,417 in grants to DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED?
- THE TOM AND FRANCES LEACH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAKOTA STAGE LIMITED 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing