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HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER

HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER (North Dakota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,164 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION ($155,654). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$621k
Revenue FY2025
13
Funders on record
$398k
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Against its field

HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve4.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,307 animals 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($899k) Net assets 100 ($3.8M)2018 Revenue 57 ($663k) Expenses 117 ($1.1M) Net assets 85 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 67 ($786k) Expenses 130 ($1.2M) Net assets 65 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 70 ($819k) Expenses 142 ($1.3M) Net assets 66 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 278 ($3.2M) Expenses 182 ($1.6M) Net assets 106 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 104 ($1.2M) Expenses 262 ($2.4M) Net assets 68 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 32 ($375k) Expenses 220 ($2.0M) Net assets 27 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 53 ($621k) Expenses 65 ($582k) Net assets 28 ($1.1M)
'17'18'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (53)Expenses (65)Net assets (28)Peer revenue range

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

54% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$266k
17
$392k
18
$381k
20
$458k
21
$1.6M
22
$1.1M
23
$1.6M
24
$38k
25
4.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $43k.

5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)48% 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER’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

HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER.

39%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 98% · 2019 61% · 2020 41% · 2021 54% · 2022 44% · 2023 58%diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

67% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

55% of HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.

ND
MN
NY
CA
DC
TX

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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

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. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 5%Fundraising 2%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ND

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER: 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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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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER?
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER (North Dakota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,164 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION ($155,654). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $398,164 in grants to HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION is the largest funder on record, with $155,654 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER 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 13funders 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