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NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST
NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST (North Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,056,738 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($935,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- North Dakota Humanities Councillocalportfolio match
- The Devils Lake Area Foundationlocal
- Northwest North Dakota Community Foundation Incportfolio 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $925k → $254k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST’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 NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 82% · 2022 78% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $935k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- North Dakota Humanities Councillocalportfolio matchND · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Devils Lake Area FoundationlocalND · funds 15 organizations near you
- Northwest North Dakota Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Chilton DAR Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Yellowstone Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Association of Conservation Districtsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maki Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Environmental Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alaska Conservation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heart of the Rockies Initiativeportfolio 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.
Government funding NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.1M on record.
- Department of the Interior$12.7M
- Department of Agriculture$353k
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 NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST: 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 NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST?
- NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST (North Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,056,738 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($935,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,056,738 in grants to NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $935,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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