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NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES
NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,650 to it, the largest being Dakota Medical Charities ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $14M
What North Dakota Association of Counties does
Mission
Ndaco provides leadership and services to foster effective and efficient government for the good of all counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In mid 2025, ndaco brought in-house the indirect cost program, which was contracted with consultants for many years. This program assists counties in recouping their indirect expenses related to their administration and delivery of social services through an approved cost allocation plan.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The county employers group program provides quality risk and claims management services to all county employees to reduce injury and get workers back to work safely and quickly.
$2,971,633 spent$3,999,318 earned by the program39% of program spendingThe traffic safety resource prosecutor program (tsrp) and the vision zero outreach program (vzop) are partnership programs with the nd department of transportation. Tsrp provides continuing education to prosecutors, law enforcement, and other traffic safety professionals on all traffic safety matters. Vzop was developed in an effort to provide awareness and influence driving behavior change among north dakota citizens. It concentrates on seatbelt use, distracted/impaired driving, and road safety.
$950,233 spent$299 earned by the program13% of program spendingJuvenile justice services in cooperation with the division of juvenile services promotes and implements advanced practices in communities across the state related to juvenile justice prevention, intervention and treatment activities.
$726,231 spent10% of program spendingConferences, training seminars and workshops, member associations support program, grant programs, indirect cost program, and other program services.
$2,948,882 spent$3,647,356 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,596,979.
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.
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 $13M to $15M (+14%).
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 11% · 2018 14% · 2019 13% · 2020 16% · 2021 18% · 2022 12% · 2023 12% · 2024 19% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Aaron Birst
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $4k.
From the IRS filings of NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES’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 ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
73% 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 ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 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
73% of NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES'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. 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.
Organizations like NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Institute of Local Government · exempt
- Ndaco Resources Group Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES?
- NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES (North Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,650 to it, the largest being Dakota Medical Charities ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $13,650 in grants to NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES?
- Dakota Medical Charities is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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