North Dakota · Nonprofit
VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $862,949 to it, the largest being Edson & Margaret Larson Foundation ($255,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $863k
- Net assets
- $30M
What Valley City State University Foundation does
Mission
Valley City State University Foundation aids in the advancement of Valley City State University by awarding scholarships and by promoting the University. Support comes primarily from contributions by individuals and businesses, fundraising events, and investment income.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships were awarded to students attending Valley City State University
$1,973,768 spentof which $1,973,768 as grants93% of program spendingContributions were given to Valley City State University to fund activities and certain athletics
$124,412 spentof which $124,412 as grants6% of program spendingMembership in Valley City State University's Century Club (athletics) and local charitable donations
$15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants1% of program spendingMembership in Valley City State University's Century Club (athletics) and local charitable donations
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,113,180.
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 2023 to 2024, from $20M to $27M (+39%).
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 8% · 2018 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 14% · 2022 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $126k → $251k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Valley City - Barnes County Development Corporatio). These are real filings, and they are not money VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY 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
VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 78% · 2019 50% · 2020 75% · 2021 67% · 2022 54% · 2023 80% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
58% of VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY 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. $426k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Valley City State University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY 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 VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $862,949 to it, the largest being Edson & Margaret Larson Foundation ($255,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $862,949 in grants to VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- Edson & Margaret Larson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $255,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEY CITY STATE UNIVERSITY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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