Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in North Dakota

These 25 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in North Dakota that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

25grantmaking charities

$209.7Mgranted between them

1,946funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded. A grantmaker supporting sixty groups is a more realistic prospect than one writing two very large cheques, which is why this is not ranked by dollars.

Organization	Based in	Median grant	Organizations	Total granted
North Dakota Community Foundation	Bismarck	$12,000	429	$23.4M
Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation	Fargo	$12,500	312	$30.6M
Great Plains Food Bank	Fargo	$31,764	150	$80.4M
Dakota Medical Foundation	Fargo	$12,000	96	$6.5M
Knights of Columbus Council 1883	Jamestown	$12,200	92	$4.2M
Minot Community Foundation	Minot	$13,900	81	$3.8M
Inspiritus Community Health Foundation	Minot	$19,592	79	$4.5M
Northwest North Dakota Community	Williston	$27,528	75	$5.3M
Community Foundation of Grand Forks	Grand Forks	$15,275	70	$3.8M
United Way of Cass-Clay	Fargo	$56,566	59	$13.5M
Steer Inc	Bismarck	$14,364	56	$3.5M
Impact Foundation	Fargo	$10,000	55	$3.7M
Ichf Foundation	Minot	$10,408	53	$1.7M
Dakota Medical Charities	Fargo	$10,500	41	$7.0M
Cass County Electric Cooperative Foundation	Fargo	$7,500	39	$381K
Stark Development Corporation	Dickinson	$25,000	35	$1.4M
Innovis Health LLC	Fargo	$15,550	34	$3.9M
North Dakota Humanities Council	Bismarck	$10,000	30	$878K
Minot Junior Golf Association Inc	Minot	$15,000	30	$2.2M
Fraternal Order of Eagles	Dickinson	$14,550	25	$1.1M
Missouri Slope Areawide United Way	Bismarck	$25,336	23	$2.3M
First Lutheran Church Foundation	Fargo	$10,000	21	$1.0M
Altru Health System	Grand Forks	$21,550	21	$3.4M
Cooperstown Municipal Association	Cooperstown	$10,000	20	$687K
Greater Grand Forks Convention &	Grand Forks	$10,000	20	$391K

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.

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