North Dakota · Nonprofit
Red River Human Services Foundation
Red River Human Services Foundation (North Dakota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,772 to it, the largest being United Way of Cass-Clay ($175,252). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $237k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Red River Human Services Foundation does
Mission
We are dedicated to affirming human worth, rights, and dignity by providing services to people with disabilities, which enhance the quality of their lives, and enable them to live, work, and develop relationships within their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides residential, pre-vocational and vocational services to 125 individuals living in intermediate care facilities, transitional living facilities, congregate care facilities, and in apartment and family home settings. The organization also provides leisure and recreational services to approximately 250 individuals.
$14,888,243 spentof which $20,267 as grants$16,469,790 earned by the program85% of program spendingThe non-greensheet programs provide independent supported living assistance and family support services to individuals with developmental/intellectual disabilities or families with dependents with developmental/intellectual disabilities. These programs provide employment opportunities for supported individuals at the thrift store in Breckenridge, MN. There is also contract work with employers in Wahpeton and Great Bend, ND. In addition, there is also a small contract for lawn mowing in Breckenridge, MN.
$2,389,023 spent$2,159,508 earned by the program14% of program spendingThe Activity Center supports individuals with developmental disabilities by providing recreational, leisure and social activities during weekday afternoons, evenings, and weekends. They can also provide assistance with transportation and meals.
$328,505 spent$52,659 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,605,771.
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 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $17M (+38%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 0% · 2023 19% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Tom Newberger
CEO
Board chair
Pam Erlandson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $48k → $5k.
3 of 11 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 Red River Human Services Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 funders by total. 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
Red River Human Services Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 Red River Human Services Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 86% · 2021 59% · 2022 41% · 2023 82% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of Red River Human Services Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
90% of Red River Human Services 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. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like Red River Human Services Foundation
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Red River Human Services 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Red River Human Services Foundation?
- Red River Human Services Foundation (North Dakota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,772 to it, the largest being United Way of Cass-Clay ($175,252). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Red River Human Services Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $236,772 in grants to Red River Human Services Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Red River Human Services Foundation?
- United Way of Cass-Clay is the largest funder on record, with $175,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Red River Human Services 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.
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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 11 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