North Dakota · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS
MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS (North Dakota) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,968,111 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,021,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Mountain Plains Youth Works does
Mission
Mountain Plains Youth Works provides a comprehensive range of support services for youth and their families to meet goals for strong, healthy relationships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Runaway and homeless youth: the runaway portion of this program provides services to youth that have run away from home or are at risk of running due to serious parent-child conflict. The key services provided include family counseling/reunification and emergency placement. The homeless portion of this program provides services to homeless youth and young adults (under 22 years of age). Young parents and expecting moms (under 22 years of age) are a priority population. The key services provide transitional housing and indiviudal counseling focused on removing the barriers to further education and employment.also provides juvenile diversion program services to unruly youth diverted by the juvenile court. The primary services are individual counseling and family support.
$4,795,973 spent$4,650,255 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,795,973.
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.
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 $2.8M to $4.1M (+45%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Melanie Heitkamp
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $277k → $344k.
11 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% 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 MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 58% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 38% · 2022 28% · 2023 32% — 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
42% of MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
72% of MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.3M
- Department of Justice$4.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
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.
Organizations like MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS
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.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mpysc Properties LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS?
- MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS (North Dakota) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,968,111 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,021,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,968,111 in grants to MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,021,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 40 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