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LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL

LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL (North Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,700 to it, the largest being LAKE AGASSIZ CERTIFIED DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ($35,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$491k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$2.6M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Lake Agassiz Regional Council does

Mission

Comprehensive planning and administration of community development block grants and other economic development assistance.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Comprehensive planning and administration of community development block grants and other economic development assistance.additional outreach began with businesses and communities in our region to better understand impacts and help entities recover from covid-19 impacts.

    $490,685 spentof which $101,250 as grants$179,253 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $490,685.

02The 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 ($635k) Expenses 100 ($646k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 84 ($531k) Expenses 83 ($539k) Net assets 99 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 72 ($454k) Expenses 84 ($544k) Net assets 91 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 70 ($443k) Expenses 54 ($346k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 312 ($2.0M) Expenses 64 ($414k) Net assets 240 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 63 ($400k) Expenses 57 ($368k) Net assets 242 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 74 ($468k) Expenses 64 ($417k) Net assets 247 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 60 ($380k) Expenses 73 ($474k) Net assets 238 ($2.7M)2025 Revenue 77 ($491k) Expenses 89 ($578k) Net assets 231 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (77)Expenses (89)Net assets (231)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.7M to $7.5M (+172%).

$2.2M
$1.9M
$1.5M
$1.8M
$3.3M
$2.7M
$2.8M
$2.7M
$7.5M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 77% · 2018 63% · 2019 43% · 2020 55% · 2021 91% · 2022 61% · 2023 52% · 2024 39% · 2025 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’17
−$8k
’18
−$89k
’19
$97k
’20
$1.6M
’21
$32k
’22
$52k
’23
−$93k
’24
−$87k
’25
105
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.

Chief executive

Amber M Metz

Executive director

Board chair

Thomas E Jefferson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed222222212121202219
Joined·+3+1+1+1+2+0+2+1
No longer listed·31212104
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $22k → $14k.

Funder
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL’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.

Where its funders are

100% of LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.

ND

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

’22
’23
North Dakota out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.

Federal$2.5M
grants $2.5Mcontracts $0
17
18
20
22
Top agencies
  • Department of Commerce$2.5M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL?
LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL (North Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,700 to it, the largest being LAKE AGASSIZ CERTIFIED DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ($35,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,700 in grants to LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL?
LAKE AGASSIZ CERTIFIED DEVELOPMENT COMPANY is the largest funder on record, with $35,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE AGASSIZ REGIONAL COUNCIL 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 1 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