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FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,507 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($67,971). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year. FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2025
$764k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$449k
Net assets
$4.1M
12/19 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programFARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$1.6M

Recipients

1

Contributions on record

$449k

Donors on record

18

Payments out run 3.5x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($305k) Expenses 100 ($346k) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 210 ($641k) Expenses 112 ($388k) Net assets 106 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 168 ($514k) Expenses 133 ($462k) Net assets 111 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 226 ($691k) Expenses 116 ($401k) Net assets 133 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 190 ($581k) Expenses 128 ($445k) Net assets 112 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 168 ($513k) Expenses 174 ($603k) Net assets 118 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 246 ($750k) Expenses 176 ($610k) Net assets 127 ($3.8M)2025 Revenue 250 ($764k) Expenses 164 ($570k) Net assets 136 ($4.1M)
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Revenue (250)Expenses (164)Net assets (136)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.5M to $3.8M (−15%).

$3.3M
$3.5M
$3.9M
$4.5M
$3.8M
$3.9M
$4.2M
$4.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$41k
’17
$254k
’18
$52k
’20
$290k
’21
$136k
’22
−$90k
’23
$141k
’24
$195k
’25
11
months of
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.

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Listed2318221515141314
Joined·+3·+2+1+1+0+3
No longer listed·8·91212
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $37k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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.

Where its funders are

FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 5 states in all.

ND
MN
MA
CA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Dakota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is 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.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,507 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($67,971). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year. FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $448,507 in grants to FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $67,971 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FARGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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