Dakota Medical Charities
Fargo, ND · EIN 45-0368679. Reported 72 grants totalling $7,019,144 to 41 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Dakota Medical Charities, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropy and voluntarism organization (NTEE T50).
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 76% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 58% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,500. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $23,000; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $1,836,564. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dakota Medical Foundation | Fargo, ND | $5,320,184 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Impact Foundation | Fargo, ND | $651,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Und Alumni Association and Foundation | Grand Forks, ND | $240,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc | Fargo, ND | $105,700 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| YWCA Cass Clay | Fargo, ND | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Innovis Health LLC | Fargo, ND | $63,291 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Haleys Hope Inc | West Fargo, ND | $45,690 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Churches United for the Homeless | Moorhead, MN | $32,350 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Peace Officer Jail Chaplains Assocation | Fargo, ND | $32,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Saint Giannas Home Inc | Minto, ND | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Emerging Prairie | Fargo, ND | $30,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bio Girls Inc | Fargo, ND | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Valley Christian Counseling and Wellness | Fargo, ND | $24,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dakota Family Services | Minot, ND | $21,579 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oak Grove Lutheran High School | Fargo, ND | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brave the Shave | Bismarck, ND | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Violence Intervention Center Inc | Grand Forks, ND | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Golden Drive Homeless Kids LLC | Fargo, ND | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lend a Hand Up Inc | Fargo, ND | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| North Dakota Safety Council | Bismarck, ND | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Fargo, ND | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Red River Valley | Fargo, ND | $16,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Riverview Healthcare Foundation Inc | Crookston, MN | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Great North Pole | West Fargo, ND | $11,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley | Fargo, ND | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fraser Ltd | Fargo, ND | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fargo Park District Foundation | Fargo, ND | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Dakota State University Foundation | Fargo, ND | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northern Cass Community Health & Wellness Center | Hunter, ND | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Perry Center Inc | West Fargo, ND | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Great Plains Food Bank | Fargo, ND | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fm Raise Your Spirits Inc | West Fargo, ND | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sharehouse Foundation | Fargo, ND | $7,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Gerards Community of Care | Hankinson, ND | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hero Healthcare Equipment Recycling Organization | Fargo, ND | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Matthews Voice Project | West Fargo, ND | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Dakota Autism Center Inc | West Fargo, ND | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Park Christian School Inc | Moorhead, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tnt Kids Fitness | Fargo, ND | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Immigrant Development Center | Moorhead, MN | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Excellerate | Moorhead, MN | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
18 of 41 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Dakota Medical Foundation
Support of General operations, Lend A Hand Up, Recovery Reinvented fiscal sponsor project and Bossart Parkinson's Fiscal Sponsor project. - Impact Foundation
Support the operational costs of the Impact Learning Center, the ongoing development of the Giving Hearts Day website and support the Par 4 Junior Golf FSP. - Und Alumni Association & Foundation
GHD winner - Fundraising ($12K) - Scholarship support ($50K), Golf Tourney Sponsor ($5K) - Innovis Health LLC
Support for hyperbaric chamber oxygen treatment and clinical research. - Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc
sponsor feasibility study and support for people suffering from substance use disorders - Und Alumni Association and Foundation
Program support for student scholarships in medical or nursing related fields of study and sponsor of golf tournament.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 12 | $2,269,305 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 19 | $1,981,190 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 19 | $905,279 | $10,500 |
| 2023 | 22 | $1,863,370 | $11,250 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in North Dakota. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Dakota.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Dakota Medical Charities's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 4321 20TH Ave S, Fargo, ND, 58103.
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