North Dakota · Nonprofit
MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY
MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being Wend II Inc ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,361 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
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.
- Garrison Area Improvement Associationlocal
- Leroy and Claris Strand Foundationportfolio match
- Humanities Montanaportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY’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
MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
40% 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 MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% — 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
MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Garrison Area Improvement AssociationlocalND · funds 14 organizations near you
- Leroy and Claris Strand Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Montanaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nibs and Edna Allen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montana History Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knights of Columbus Council 1883portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Masonic Charitable Foundation of the Grand Lodge of Maineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Homestead Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Fdtnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Webster Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lakeshore Advantage Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zeller-Knowles Foundation Incportfolio 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 MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY
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
100% 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 MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY: 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 MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY?
- MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being Wend II Inc ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,000 in grants to MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY?
- Wend II Inc is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDICINE LODGE CONFEDERACY 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 2funders 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