GrantmakersNorth Dakota

Ichf Foundation

Minot, ND · EIN 36-3464642. Reported 96 grants totalling $1,728,838 to 53 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

53organizations funded
$10,408median reported grant
$1,728,838granted, 2020-2024
51%of grantees funded again the next year
23%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 23% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 51% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 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 $10,408. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $280,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
38 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
48 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

2 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $8,072 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Inspiritus Community Health FoundationMinot, ND$395,387222021
Project BeeMinot, ND$100,825332023
Minot Commission on Aging IncMinot, ND$97,900552024
Village Family Service CenterFargo, ND$95,000552024
Church of Our Lady of Grace - Minot ParishMinot, ND$89,108222024
Minot State UniversityMinot, ND$76,193442024
Welcome TableMinot, ND$61,431332024
Souris Basin Transportation BoardMinot, ND$60,000552024
Church of Our Lady of Grace Minot Trustee IncMinot, ND$54,675222021
Metigoshe Lutheran Bible Camp IncBottineau, ND$52,495442024
Kenmare Wheels and Meals IncKenmare, ND$41,000552024
Salvation Army National CorpAlexandria, VA$39,161222024
Society of St Vincent Depaul Dist Council of Western North DakotaBismarck, ND$26,875112020
First District Health UnitMinot, ND$25,325222024
Minot Area Homeless Coalition IncMinot, ND$24,000222024
Washburn Parks and RecWashburn, ND$22,905222021
Stanley Community SchoolsStanley, ND$22,600112020
Northern Plains Childrens Advocacy CenterMinot, ND$22,108112020
Rolette Rural Fire District #2Rolette, ND$20,680112020
Rolette Community Care CenterRolette, ND$20,042112020
St Aloisius Hospital IncHarvey, ND$19,541112020
Prairie Grit Adaptive SportsMinot, ND$19,525112020
Sanctuary Foundation IncMinot, ND$19,235112020
Ward County Historical SocietyBurlington, ND$17,610112020
Nexus Path Family HealingPlymouth, MN$17,500222024
American Lutheran ChurchStanley, ND$16,315222024
Souris Valley United WayMinot, ND$16,286112020
St Anns ChurchBelcourt, ND$15,915222023
Tri-County Senior MealsRugby, ND$15,500332024
Minot Young Mens Christian AssociationMinot, ND$14,475222023
St Andrews HospitalBottineau, ND$14,255112020
FirstlinkFargo, ND$13,500222024
The Salvation ArmyHoffman Estates, IL$13,260222021
Lutheran Social Services of North DakotaNew Brighton, MN$12,700112020
On the Water IncMinot, ND$11,845112020
Minot Central DispatchMinot, ND$11,000222024
Better Living for Garrison IncGarrison, ND$10,950222024
Tm Mikinaak Ode CenterDunseith, ND$10,201112021
Velva Community Food PantryVelva, ND$10,120112024
International Music Camp IncMinot, ND$9,775112021
Community Food PantryMakoti, ND$9,535112024
Society of St Stephens - Food PantryBowbells, ND$9,440112023
Abc of the DakotasSioux Falls, SD$9,045112021
Child Evangelism Fellowship IncMinot, ND$7,925112021
Mountain-Plains Youth Services CoalitionBismarck, ND$7,500112020
Parkview Housing IncorporatedMc Clusky, ND$7,500112023
Kenmare Food PantryKenmare, ND$7,270112021
Camp of the Cross MinistriesGarrison, ND$6,715112021
Lutheran Campus Ministry at Minot State UniversityMinot, ND$6,220112024
Garrison Area Resource Center & Food PantryGarrison, ND$5,370112021
Powers Lake Food PantryPowers Lake, ND$5,100112024
Bishop Ryan Catholic SchoolMinot, ND$5,000112020
Ward County Sheriff's DepartmentMinot, ND$5,000112020

24 of 53 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 53 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.

Human Services
7 orgs
Food & Nutrition
5 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Religion
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
2 orgs
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202027$539,009$16,286
202121$521,261$9,775
20229$108,395$10,000
202318$274,215$10,307
202421$285,958$10,120

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

95% 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.

North Dakota
$1.6M
Virginia
$39K
Minnesota
$30K
Illinois
$13K
South Dakota
$9K

Down to the city

Minot, ND
$1.1M
Fargo, ND
$108K
Bottineau, ND
$67K
Kenmare, ND
$48K
Rolette, ND
$41K
Alexandria, VA
$39K

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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.

Inspiritus Community Health Foundation28 shared recipientsMinot Community Foundation18 shared recipientsNorth Dakota Community Foundation12 shared recipientsOtto Bremer Trust11 shared recipientsBlue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,408 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Dakota.
  4. 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 Ichf Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 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: 308 2ND Ave Sw, Minot, ND, 58701.

EIN 36-3464642 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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