North Dakota · Nonprofit
NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION
NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,311 to it, the largest being FORT ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION ($83,007). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Missouri Slope Areawide United Wayshared funderslocal
- New Hampshire Preservation Allianceportfolio match
- Lute Family 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $92k → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION’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
NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 70% · 2021 64% · 2022 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
75% of NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION'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. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Missouri Slope Areawide United Wayshared funderslocalND · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · funds 26 organizations near you
- New Hampshire Preservation Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lute Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Alaskans Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald E Nielsen Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Historic Preservation Education Foundationportfolio 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 NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.0M on record.
- Department of Commerce$3.9M
- Department of the Interior$3.1M
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 NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION
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 NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: 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 NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,311 to it, the largest being FORT ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION ($83,007). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $212,311 in grants to NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- FORT ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $83,007 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHERN PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION 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 4funders 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