North Dakota · Nonprofit
North Dakota Assistive
North Dakota Assistive (North Dakota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $864,224 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($337,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $864k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What North Dakota Assistive does
Mission
North Dakota Assistive delivers services to people with disabilities so they can get the assistive technology they need for work, school, and home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
North Dakota Assistive delivers services, devices, and education so that individuals with disabilities and those experiencing the effects of aging receive the assistive technology they need to more fully participate in work, school, and home activities. The services include information dissemination, public awareness, training, equipment loan library, demonstration centers, device re-use opportunities, assessments and consultations. North Dakota Assistive participates in various taskforces to promote and coordinate the use, and administration of contracts for the purpose of supporting and maintaining assistive technology services. Over the past year North Dakota Assistive aided over 1,500 individuals to receive the services and technology they need to live a more productive life.
$1,543,263 spentof which $225,386 as grants$55,073 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,543,263.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $3.3M to $3.9M (+16%).
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: 2018 2% · 2021 16% · 2023 8% · 2024 88% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of North Dakota Assistive’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Mike Chaussee
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $315k → $2k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 North Dakota Assistive’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
North Dakota Assistive leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 North Dakota Assistive.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of North Dakota Assistive's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
60% of North Dakota Assistive'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. $337k 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
North Dakota Assistive runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like North Dakota Assistive
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
96%
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 North Dakota Assistive: 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 North Dakota Assistive?
- North Dakota Assistive (North Dakota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $864,224 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($337,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does North Dakota Assistive have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $864,224 in grants to North Dakota Assistive, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of North Dakota Assistive?
- NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $337,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like North Dakota Assistive 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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