North Dakota · Nonprofit
KEEP IT LOCAL
KEEP IT LOCAL (North Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,000 to it, the largest being National Association of Realtors ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $315k
- Net assets
- $0
What Keep It Local does
Mission
State Ballot Measure Committee - The mission of Keep It Local is to protect local control of revenues and public services by opposing measures that would eliminate ad valorem property taxes in North Dakota. The organization engages in public education, advocacy, and related activities to inform voters about the fiscal and community impacts of such proposals and to encourage informed participation in the democratic process.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Keep It Local is a State Ballot Measure Committee formed under North Dakota law and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a section 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The Committee was organized exclusively to oppose a single statewide ballot measure on the November 2024 general election ballot in North Dakota that sought to eliminate ad valorem property taxes and replace them with alternative state revenue sources. The measure, if passed, would have fundamentally changed the structure of property taxation in the state, removing a major source of funding for cities, counties, school districts, and other local political subdivisions, and significantly altering the ability of local governments to provide essential services. All contributions raised by the Committee were used to further this exempt purpose. Program activities focused on educating the public, voters, and community stakeholders on the implications of the proposed constitutional amendment, the potential impact on local control of revenues, and the consequences for public services. These activities included the preparation and distribution of informational materials in print and digital formats; the…
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $70k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Chad Oban
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of KEEP IT LOCAL’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
KEEP IT LOCAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 KEEP IT LOCAL.
“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
KEEP IT LOCAL draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 3 states in all.
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.
Organizations like KEEP IT LOCAL
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KEEP IT LOCAL: 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 KEEP IT LOCAL?
- KEEP IT LOCAL (North Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,000 to it, the largest being National Association of Realtors ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KEEP IT LOCAL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $315,000 in grants to KEEP IT LOCAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEEP IT LOCAL?
- National Association of Realtors is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEEP IT LOCAL 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing