South Dakota · Nonprofit
SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA
SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA (South Dakota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,425,038 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,700,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.4M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,110 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way of Bemidji Areashared funders
- Copic Medical Foundationportfolio 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.
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.
60% of SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $34k → $8k.
8 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $616k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sanford Group Return). These are real filings, and they are not money SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA raised.
From the IRS filings of SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA’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
SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 99% · 2022 55% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
100% of SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Delta Dental of Minnesota Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMN · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Bemidji Areashared fundersMN · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- Copic Medical Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberici Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Dental of South Dakota Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bwbr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Hospital Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Felhaber Larson Fenlon & Vogt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bear Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vizient Inc Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospitalportfolio 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.
Organizations like SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA: 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 SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA?
- SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA (South Dakota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,425,038 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,700,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $3,425,038 in grants to SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,700,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South 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 9funders 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