North Country Food Bank Inc
East Grand Forks, MN · EIN 41-1459758. Reported 183 grants totalling $6,520,676 to 42 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. 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.
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 14% 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.
- How much its list changes. 97% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $16,650. Half of what it reported fell between $10,137 and $32,932; the smallest was $5,058 and the largest $352,987. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
183 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $6,520,676 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bemidji Community Food Shelf | Bemidji, MN | $909,289 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Outreach Foodshelf | Alexandria, MN | $628,280 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Chicago, IL | $564,918 | 28 | 4 | 2023 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Washington, DC | $536,932 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Becker County Food Pantry Inc | Detroit Lakes, MN | $486,463 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hubbard County Food Shelf | Park Rapids, MN | $407,061 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Perham Community Food Shelf Inc | Perham, MN | $359,333 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Thief River Falls Area Food Shelf | Thief Rvr Fls, MN | $351,291 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| East Grand Forks Food Shelf | E Grand Forks, MN | $248,639 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Stevens County Food Shelf | Morris, MN | $228,002 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pope County Hearts & Hands Inc | Glenwood, MN | $172,665 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Care and Share Inc | Crookston, MN | $132,216 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Akeley Regional Community Center Inc | Akeley, MN | $108,622 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fergus Falls Community Food Shelf Inc | Fergus Falls, MN | $102,833 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Roseau Area Food Shelf Inc | Roseau, MN | $95,913 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pelican Rapids Community Food Shelf Inc | Pel Rapids, MN | $94,278 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Diocese of Crookston Catholic Community Foundation | Crookston, MN | $77,663 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bethesda Lutheran Church | Strandquist, MN | $76,875 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Battle Lake Emergency Food Shelf Inc | Battle Lake, MN | $72,968 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church | Minneapolis, MN | $69,374 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Southbend United Methodist Church | Gainesville, GA | $68,014 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Warren Emergency Food Shelf Inc | Warren, MN | $60,420 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Henning Community Food Shelf | Henning, MN | $57,150 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Center of Human Environment | Mahnomen, MN | $55,538 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Helping Hands Emegergencey Services Inc | Mahnomen, MN | $53,680 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Grant County Food Shelf | Elbow Lake, MN | $50,887 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York Mills Area Food Shelf Inc | New York Mls, MN | $50,585 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The General Council of the Assemblies of God | Springfield, MO | $48,656 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Project Share of Wadena Inc | Wadena, MN | $48,578 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Agassiz Environmental Learning Center | Fertile, MN | $43,588 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Clearwater County Food Shelf | Bagley, MN | $39,308 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| West Central Minnesota Communities Action Inc | Elbow Lake, MN | $38,408 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bethlehem Covenant Church Wheaton Mn | Wheaton, MN | $33,679 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Inter-County Community Council Inc | Oklee, MN | $32,878 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | Laporte, MN | $31,572 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Red Lake Homeless Shelter | Red Lake, MN | $19,828 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Hannahrays | Lake Bronson, MN | $16,711 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bemidji Community Soup Kitchen Inc | Bemidji, MN | $15,261 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Salvation Army | Roseville, MN | $13,060 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Argyle Area Food Shelf | Argyle, MN | $7,361 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Refuge a Religious Association | Detroit Lakes, MN | $6,076 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| White Earth Food Shelf | Naytahwaush, MN | $5,823 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
39 of 42 (93%) 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.
- Bemidji Community Food Shelf
TO PROVIDE FOOD DISTRIBUTION AT REDUCED COST TO QUALIFIED NON PROFIT PROGRAMS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 42 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 | 48 | $1,683,814 | $16,395 |
| 2021 | 46 | $1,344,817 | $14,854 |
| 2022 | 43 | $1,330,086 | $14,856 |
| 2023 | 46 | $2,161,959 | $22,168 |
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
81% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. 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 $16,650 -- 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 Minnesota.
- 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 North Country Food Bank Inc'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 46 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: 1011 11TH Ave Ne, East Grand Forks, MN, 56721.
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