North Dakota · Nonprofit
NDSU Research & Technology Park
NDSU Research & Technology Park (North Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,141 to it, the largest being GROWTH INITIATIVE FUND ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $88k
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What NDSU Research & Technology Park does
Mission
The NDSU Research and Technology Park operates to enhance the investments in North Dakota State University by the citizens of North Dakota. Through partnerships with international, national and regional centers of excellence, high technology-based businesses, and the research community at NDSU, the Research and Technology Park will achieve successful technology based development and broaden the economic base of North Dakota.Scientific and technological advancement will be promoted through the development of facilities and research centers conducive to cutting edge research. The Park will establish an innovation accelerator unit, which offers space, facilities and services to technology-based entrepreneurs and businesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For charitable, scientific & educational purposes primarily promoting public/private partnership, advancing research and technology development, including entrepreneurship.The following were the NDSU Research & Technology Park's (Organization) unique programs in 2024: Continued on Schedule O...At the Technology Incubator, the Organization continues to create an entrepreneurial culture that fosters innovation and encourages creativity. This was accomplished by providing coaching and mentoring services and networking events. In 2014, the Organization became an administrator for the State of North Dakota Department of Commerce (DOC) Innovate ND program. The Organization assists the DOC in growing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in North Dakota and provides support for the development of new and innovative businesses. The Organization participates in the Innovate ND program along with three other entrepreneurial centers located across the State of North Dakota. The Organization assists participants in the program with validating their product and market along with defining the value proposition and customer identification. There are two 3-month phases of the program. For this past…
$1,918,670 spent$1,341,165 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,918,670.
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 2024 to 2025, from $18M to $16M (−9%).
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: 2017 13% · 2018 14% · 2019 8% · 2020 16% · 2021 12% · 2022 32% · 2023 26% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of NDSU Research & Technology Park’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Brenda Wyland
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $16.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $15k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money NDSU Research & Technology Park raised.
From the IRS filings of NDSU Research & Technology Park’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
NDSU Research & Technology Park leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 NDSU Research & Technology Park.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2019 62% · 2020 56% · 2021 61% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of NDSU Research & Technology Park'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. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NDSU Research & Technology Park is better cushioned than half of the 210 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NDSU Research & Technology Park receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.6M
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 NDSU Research & Technology Park
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
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
- Research Park Ventures LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NDSU Research & Technology Park: 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 NDSU Research & Technology Park?
- NDSU Research & Technology Park (North Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,141 to it, the largest being GROWTH INITIATIVE FUND ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NDSU Research & Technology Park have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $88,141 in grants to NDSU Research & Technology Park, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NDSU Research & Technology Park?
- GROWTH INITIATIVE FUND 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 NDSU Research & Technology Park 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 6 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