Impact Foundation
Fargo, ND · EIN 20-0520386. Reported 87 grants totalling $3,712,235 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Impact Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropy and voluntarism organization (NTEE T50).
- How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 40% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 45% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $21,387; the smallest was $5,400 and the largest $750,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
16 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $485,409 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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fargo Prairie Heights Community Church of the Nazarene | West Fargo, ND | $1,500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Living Word Lutheran Church | Marshall, MN | $320,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Casselton Parks and Recreation | Casselton, ND | $291,363 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation | Bismarck, ND | $260,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nd Department of Veterans Affairs | Fargo, ND | $180,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bethel University | Saint Paul, MN | $140,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Capstone Classical Academy | Fargo, ND | $107,910 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation | Fargo, ND | $102,386 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Great Plains Food Bank | Fargo, ND | $96,635 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dakota Medical Foundation | Fargo, ND | $68,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bethel Church | Fargo, ND | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| YWCA Cass Clay | Fargo, ND | $42,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North Dakota State University Foundation | Fargo, ND | $31,387 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Walhalla Lutheran | Walhalla, ND | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Cando | Cando, ND | $29,950 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Dakota | Fargo, ND | $25,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| West River Health Services Foundation | Hettinger, ND | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Great North Pole | West Fargo, ND | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fargo Public Schools | Fargo, ND | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| F5 Project | Fargo, ND | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Global Friends Coalition | Grand Forks, ND | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Landons Light Foundation | West Fargo, ND | $16,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fargo Park District Foundation | Fargo, ND | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fargo Memorial Honor Guard | Fargo, ND | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feed My Starving Children | Coon Rapids, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prison Fellowship Ministries | Lansdowne, VA | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church | Milwaukee, WI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Dakota FFA Foundaton Incorporated | Bismarck, ND | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Higher Power Automotive Ministries Inc | Fargo, ND | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley | Fargo, ND | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hospice of the Red River Valley | Fargo, ND | $11,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Water Works Sea Inc | West Fargo, ND | $10,754 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cavalier Public Schools | Cavalier, ND | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fargo Va Health Care System | Fargo, ND | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lutheran Public Radio Inc | Caseyville, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mount Olive Lutheran Church | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Dakota United Foundation | Bismarck, ND | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Soul Solutions Recovery Center Inc | Fargo, ND | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bio Girls | Fargo, ND | $9,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 4 Luv of Dog Rescue | Fargo, ND | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amistad Worldwide | Fargo, ND | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cass County Veteran Service Office | Fargo, ND | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Area Inc | Grand Forks, ND | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fargo Moorhead Opera Company | Fargo, ND | $8,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Riverview Healthcare Foundation Inc | Crookston, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wellspring for the World | Fargo, ND | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Homeward Animal Shelter Inc | Fargo, ND | $7,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Madisonhome | Richmond, KY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue a Cor Poration | Rolla, ND | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Legacy Childrens Foundation | Fargo, ND | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fargo Union Mission Inc | Fargo, ND | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grand Forks Foundation for Education Inc | Grand Forks, ND | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County | Moorhead, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Farm Rescue | Horace, ND | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
20 of 55 (36%) 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.
- Prairie Heights Church
Connect those apart from God with Christ and a Church Family - Bethel University
Support general operations of this university - Living Word Lutheran Church
Support general church mission - Nd Department of Veterans Affairs
Support for emergency needs of ND Veterans - Casselton Parks and Recreation
Support 5th Qtr Activities for youth with safe, drug and alcohol-free events. - Fm Area Foundation Corporation
Folkways Community Support
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $479,023 | $8,500 |
| 2022 | 21 | $425,896 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $1,399,583 | $11,500 |
| 2024 | 30 | $1,407,733 | $10,750 |
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
85% 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
6 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 6 grants totalling $159,500 to Impact Foundation. That is 33% of the 18 funders we can see giving to it. Those 6 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve and Diane Hulbert Family | North Dakota | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| EDU21C Foundation | Massachusetts | $38,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bryan J & Patricia a Smith Family Foundation Inc | North Dakota | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Barry Foundation | North Dakota | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kave Family Foundation | Oregon | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dr Calvin K Fercho Family | North Dakota | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $10,000 -- 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 Impact Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 30 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.
EIN 20-0520386 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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